Election fraud? In Georgia? No way!
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.
The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case that was later obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.
The lawsuit, filed July 3 by a diverse group of election reform advocates, aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized election technology. The server in question, which served as a statewide staging location for key election-related data, made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn’t fixed six months after he reported it to election authorities.
WIPED OUT
It’s not clear who ordered the server’s data irretrievably erased.
The Kennesaw elections center answers to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor in 2018
The lawsuit says “gross mismanagement” of the election deprived citizens of their right to vote.
A feature, not a bug.
Purchase more insecure touch screen machines?
Feature not a bug.
Rhetorical question: Why does the Georgia GOP hate voters?
I was a poll watcher in a section serving Rome/Lindale. We had long lines. Folks told me they usually had a five to eight minute wait if any during past elections. At one point the wait was well over an hour. Poll workers told me they usually had ten or eleven voting machines instead of the eight for 2018. When I attended the next Elections Board meeting, I asked why they had fewer machines. They told me the number was based on the low turnout in the previous midterm election. They basically didn’t take into account it was a highly competitive race. It was a convenient miscalculation.
Critics of that proposal cite the advice of cybersecurity experts, who say hand-marked paper ballots are the most secure. Groh-Wargo said lawmakers would be wise to learn from the stories they’ve collected of problems with touchscreen machines and avoid buying a costly, potentially problematic electronic system.
Well can’t have the simple method, just how are we to cheat as stuffing the box becomes readily apparent soon after it is done. Then again purchasing new gives us (1) a “friend” makes a load of cash from the taxpayers, (2) gives us new opportunities to build in flaws that benefit our side.
I live in a lily white area in Georgia and even my husband who has voted in every election since 1970 had problems voting, as in he was now not on the voter role but he had his voter registration card with him and then they suddenly found him.
Regarding new voting machines: follow the money. They’ll buy machines sold by their friends, not machines based solely on appropriate security criteria and specifications, as should be the case. By friends, read: donors.