Charges dismissed in Hillsdale County 2020 voting machine data breach case
A Hillsdale County judge has dismissed felony charges against a former local clerk and a lawyer associated with false 2020 election conspiracies.
The Michigan Attorney General’s office had accused former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott of illegally sharing election data with unauthorized people after the 2020 presidential election.
The state argued a law that exempted certain voter records from the Freedom of Information Act made that data confidential. Those exempted records include ID card numbers, birthdays, and digital signatures.
But Scott's lawyer, David Kallman, argued exempting something from FOIA wasn’t the same as making it confidential. He said nothing in the law meant his client couldn’t share select data with a private attorney for advice.
https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-05-02/charges-dismissed-in-hillsdale-county-2020-voting-machine-data-breach-case