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Received a letter -- honestly it was a sort of strange e-mail from a random gmail account, telling them they needed to preserve records from elections equipment used in the 2020 election. in dane county, wisconsin, the county clerk there immediately forwarded that random gmail request to his i.t. security department. this is how they replied. quote, scott, if this e-mail from from a gmail request i would strongly recommend against replying to it with any information. if these actions are any official cavity, i would expect it to come from an email account with an official wisconsin government ...

Mr. mcdonald, it's a pleasure to have you tonight. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. appreciate it. >> do you know if all the county clerks in wisconsin received the same sort of gmail notice that you did? >> you know, it's not clear. i think there's an attempt to send these to all the county clerks. i know some of them received it and some of them it went straight to their spam folders. so they read the news reporting and then started looking for it. >> besides this -- this missive which was strange in a lot of ways, it is from a random gmail address. it had a pdf attached to it tha...

Including notifying all necessary steps to comply with this request, including notifying all agents, assigns or custodians of records. to comply with this request. and it is signed michael j. gableman, sort of signed. at least his name is on it. this is the guy republicans put in charge to run this arizona style audit in wisconsin, but look at the e-mail again where this preservation notice came from. his name is on the bottom of it, right, his e-mail has his name on the bottom. but look at the e-mail address it was sent from. it was sent from john delta, all lowercase. from a gmail address? w...

Or have they been in touch with you before this in some more official way? >> no, this is the first communication i got from mr. gableman assuming that was mr. gableman. so, yeah, i mean there's some -- there are a lot of red flags on that e-mail as you pointed out. and, you know, it's sort of like fishing 101, you don't open a fake gmail account. you don't send something to that. you know, the name didn't match where the address was from and so this is the person who is supposedly in charge of checking to make sure that our election was honest and fair, and it's pretty scary. >> i know that i...

This is the guy republicans put in charge to run this arizona style audit in wisconsin, but look at the e-mail again where this preservation notice came from. his name is on the bottom of it, right, his e-mail has his name on the bottom. but look at the e-mail address it was sent from. it was sent from john delta, all lowercase. from a gmail address? who is john delta, why is he sending a highly important, highly sensitive records request to county clerks from a gmail address. does the real michael gableman know about this? is there a mr. delta? is that a reference to a sci-fi movie i haven't ...