A Republican county clerk in Georgia and operatives working with a lawyer for former President Donald Trump spent hours inside a restricted area of ​​a local election office the day election systems were hacked, newly obtained surveillance video shows.   

  The video reveals for the first time what happened inside the Coffee County election office on January 7, 2021, the same day its voting systems are known to have been hacked.  Among those seen in the video is Cathy Latham, a former Coffee County GOP chairwoman who is under criminal investigation for impersonating a 2020 voter.   

  CNN previously reported that Latham escorted agents working with former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell through the front door of the election office on January 7, 2021. The new video appears to undermine Latham’s earlier claims that she had no “personal involvement” in infringement.

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  The new video, obtained as part of a years-long lawsuit in Georgia over the security of election systems there, shows Latham remaining in the office for hours as those same agents set up computers near voting equipment and appear to access voting data .   

  The video also shows the two men Latham escorted into the building earlier that day, Scott Hall and Paul Maggio, who both admitted to being part of a group that gained access to Coffee County’s voting systems.   

  Maggio did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.  The data firm he works for, SullivanStrickler, which they indicate was hired by Powell, previously said in a statement to CNN that he was “directed by attorneys to contact county election officials to gain access to certain data” in Georgia and also “directed by attorneys to distribute this data to certain individuals.”   

  In an Aug. 29, 2022 email, an attorney for SullivanStrickler acknowledges that Latham was the “primary point of contact” in coordinating the team’s visit to Coffee County.   

  The company said it had no reason to believe those lawyers would ask or direct it to “do anything improper or illegal.”   

  An attorney representing Latham pushed back against the claim that she was the primary point of contact for the SullivanStrickler team, telling CNN that the calls she can see on the video are not with anyone at the firm.   

  “There is no evidence that we are aware of that Ms. Latham spoke with Ms. Powell or anyone at SullivanStrickler on or before January 6, 2021.  And indeed there is no evidence that we know of that Mrs. Latham spoke to Ms.  Powell or anyone at SullivanStrickler on or before January 6, 2021,” the attorney added.   

  A second attorney representing Latham, Bob Cheeley, told CNN: “Cathy Latham has devoted significant time and effort over many years to protecting the integrity of elections in Coffee County, Georgia.  She will not engage and has not knowingly engaged in any illegality in any election.”   

  Hall, an Atlanta bail bondsman and Fulton County poll watcher, did not respond to repeated requests for comment from CNN.   

  The new video also shows a third agent, Jeffery Lenberg, entering the restricted server room inside the Coffee County election office more than two weeks later on January 26.  Lenberg is under criminal investigation by the Michigan attorney general in connection with a series of voting system violations there.   

  Also gaining access to the Coffee County election office in late January 2021 was Cyber ​​Ninjas CEO Doug Logan, who oversaw the party’s election audit in Arizona’s Maricopa County and is also a target of the Michigan criminal investigation.   

  According to court documents, Logan and Maggio are part of a group that gained access to voting systems in Michigan’s Antrim County in late 2020 — ultimately leading to a since-debunked report on Dominion’s election system vulnerabilities that remains in focus baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud promoted by Trump and his allies.   

  Surveillance video from outside the building shows Logan visiting the Coffee County election office more than once in January 2021, about two weeks after the break-in.  CNN has reached out to Logan’s attorneys.   

  Lenburg did not deny visiting the Coffee County elections office, but claimed in a webcast last week that he and Logan only helped “direct” the “testing” of voting systems there.   

  “We didn’t do the tests.  We just helped direct it.  We didn’t actually touch the equipment.  Doug Logan and I,” he said, adding that they merely instructed two Coffee County election officials who operated the equipment under their direction.