Text messages newly deciphered by the Arizona Republic after two years disclosed the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the incompetent group of Republican operatives hired by the Arizona GOP to try to undermine confidence in the final election tally, tried to recruit the Michigan GOP into a similar farce.
Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan exchanged a series of texts with Michigan attorney Stefanie Lambert, who was leading an election denialism effort in that state, showing the pair discussing possible funding opportunities and concerns of then GOP state senate president Karen Fann about the public finding out about their funding plans.
“She doesn’t want the Senate to look bad for not properly funding it,” Logan messaged Lambert in July 2021–more than six months after Joe Biden had been inaugurated. Lambert was indicted in August 2023 on charges of undue possession of a voting machine, conspiracy to commit undue possession of a voting machine, conspiracy to commit unauthorized access to a computer system, and willfully damaging a voting machine. Each charge carries a prison term of up to five years.