APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

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APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
By FRANK BAJAK  13 minutes ago
https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f/APNewsBreak:-Georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed




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 on 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.

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It’s not clear who ordered the server’s data irretrievably erased.

The Kennesaw election center answers to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican who is running for governor in 2018 and is the main defendant in the suit. A spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday that “we did not have anything to do with this decision,” adding that the office also had no advance warning of the move.

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Say what you want about the Dems, but they've been on the right side of this issue for nearly two decades.  Electronic voting is a mess.  The Dems know how to steal paper-ballot elections and maybe that's why they're against hackable electronic systems, but at least they're fighting against the latter!

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

So restore the data from backup.   Yawn.

[Frank Cannon]

Say what you want about the Dems, but they've been on the right side of this issue for nearly two decades.  Electronic voting is a mess.  The Dems know how to steal paper-ballot elections and maybe that's why they're against hackable electronic systems, but at least they're fighting against the latter!

What the eff are you trying to say? So you are arguing that the Rats are right to fight electronic voting because they can only steal paper ballot elections? That shit is unintelligible.

[andy58-in-nh]

You mean "wiped", like with a cloth? /hrc