Georgia election officials knew system had 'critical vulnerabilities' before 2016 vote

[kpete]

Georgia election officials got a friendly warning in August 2016 that their electronic voting system could be easily breached.

But less than a month before the November election, a state cybersecurity official fretted that “critical vulnerabilities” persisted, internal emails show.

The emails, obtained through a voting security group’s open records request, offer a glimpse into a Georgia election security team that appeared to be outmatched even as evidence grew that Russian operatives were seeking to penetrate state and county election systems across the country.

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The disclosures add to alarms about the security of Georgia’s elections — not only in 2016, but also heading into this fall’s midterm elections.

“I think these emails reveal that they recognized this system was catastrophically insecure,” said Robert McGuire, a Seattle lawyer representing citizen activists in a lawsuit that seeks to force Georgia to scrap its paperless electronic voting machines this fall and shift to paper ballots.

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https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article216031450.html

[DFW]

1. They were told in 2002

But they wanted Max Cleland out of the US Senate, and the only way that was going to happen was for the vote count to be manipulated. Ergo......

[CottonBear]

2. Republican SoS in charge of voting systems is Brian Kemp, GOP Gubernatorial candidate.

The Secretary of State’s office did nothing to secure our 100% electronic voting machine system.

Kemp did take the time to purge over 500,000 female and people of color voters from the registration lists, though.