New DOJ Voting Lawyer Spread Conspiracy Theory About Dominion Voting Machines

By Matt Cohen

FILE – Voting machines fill the floor for early voting at State Farm Arena, Oct. 12, 2020, in Atlanta. Critics of Georgia’s voting machines say they are unconstitutional and should be scrapped in favor of hand-marked paper ballots. State election officials dismiss their concerns as unfounded and argue that the state’s voting system is safe and secure. The arguments are at the center of a long-running lawsuit challenging the Dominion Voting Systems election equipment that has been used throughout Georgia since 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

A Republican lawyer working on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to seize states’ private voter data and 2020 election records was previously involved in a GOP lawsuit in Georgia challenging the use of Dominion voting machines.

It’s the latest example of DOJ hiring a lawyer for its voting section with a record of promoting false conspiracy theories about voting.

The lawyer, Brittany E. Bennett, has signed DOJ complaints brought against eight states seeking their unredacted voter records, as well as a lawsuit filed Friday demanding 2020 ballots and election records in Fulton County, Georgia. The DOJ has sued a total of 18 states for access to private voter data. 

Bennett, who was previously an attorney practicing in Georgia, filed a legal brief in 2024 on behalf of the Georgia Republican Party supporting a lawsuit by the DeKalb County GOP that tried to ban the state from using Dominion voting machines. 

The lawsuit, which was filed last year and alleged that Dominion voting machine’s encryption keys weren’t secure, was based on false claims made by Clay Parikh — an election denier and cybersecurity specialist with ties to MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) called the lawsuit a “last-minute effort to push false claims about Georgia’s voting system and cast doubt on the upcoming presidential election.”

In an order throwing out the lawsuit, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee dismissed the claims about Dominion voting machines raised by the GOP plaintiffs as “purely hypothetical.” 

Bennett’s experience in election law appears to be slim. In addition to authoring the brief for the Georgia GOP, she was a law intern for both the Georgia House of Representatives and office of the attorney general in 2016. 

Neither Bennett nor DOJ immediately responded to a request for comment about Bennett’s hiring and involvement in the DeKalb County lawsuit. 

As Democracy Docket previously reported, Eric Neff, another DOJ lawyer who recently took on a leading role in DOJ’s push to obtain state voter records, was put on leave as a local prosecutor after working with the conspiracy-driven election denier group True the Vote to bring a faulty prosecution that ultimately cost taxpayers $5 million. Neff also briefly represented Patrick Byrne, the prominent election-conspiracy theorist who aided Trump’s effort to steal the 2020 election, in a defamation lawsuit brought by Hunter Biden. Neff has also promoted false claims about Dominion voting machines in articles for conservative news site RedState.