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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 email address. we also have no verification of any operational security practices from the special counsel and at this time i would not recommend any disclosure of sensitive information until official channels of communication have been established and verified. joining us now is scott mcdonald. he s the dane county clerk in wisconsin. ....
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 that the metadata suggests was written by potentially a former trump administration official who s not known to be attached to this. it didn t seem to be on real letterhead. the name on the gmail address didn t match the address on the gmail address in fact had a different name john delta, that that s even a thing. a lot of obvious red flags here. was this actually the first purported official communicati ....
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? who is john delta, why is he sending a highly important, highly sensitive, highly confidential 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 seen yet because i m an old person now? and that s not the only thing hinky about this. go back to the letter. look at that seal on t ....
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 it sort of deep into the letter, whoever wrote this letter to you if it is for the person running the audit for these legislative republicans. the writer asks you to pass this ....
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 seen yet because i m an old person now? and that s not the only thing hinky about this. look at that seal on top of it, it really does look like a screen cap of the state seal copied off the web and plopped onto this document. this is not real letterhead. and while we re at it let s peep behind the hood of this document. ....