Someone on reddit has compiled a list of the many security flaws in the Georgia voting system and how Brian Kemp has done nothing to fix the
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Krusty (aka Krustylu)
Aug 4 '18, 06:25
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issues. He'll likely win the governorship and screw Georgia more than he already has.
In 2002, the Kennesaw State University’s Center for Election Systems is established and takes over most election records tasking from the Secretary of State's office.
In November 2015, personal information for all 6 Million voters in the state of Georgia is leaked from the Secretary of State's office to media and political groups.
During the Spring and Summer 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detects Russian activities, and later received reports of cyber probing of election infrastructures in 21 states. Georgia is not included in this list. That number later grew to 39 states targeted by Russian hacking. At least seven states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin) were compromised in some way by Russian hacking.
In August of 2016, during an NPR interview with Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science, Georgia is specifically called out for its lack of a paper-ballot trail, as well as using outdated operating systems (Windows 2000) on its voting machines. Nine days after the interview, Kemp makes it clear that the State of Georgia will not accept federal aid in determining the condition of the state's election machines, claiming that the Obama Administration is attempting a federal take-over of state systems after the DNC hacks, making it the only state to refuse assistance. This was later painted as the DHS, at the time, being overly vauge.
In August of 2016, a local Georgia security researcher named Logan Lamb accidentally discovered a vulnerability in Kennesaw State University’s Center for Election Systems' website, that allowed him to download registration records for the state’s 6.7 million voters; multiple PDFs with instructions and passwords for election workers to sign in to a central server on Election Day; and software files for the state’s ExpressPoll pollbooks — electronic devices used by pollworkers to verify that a voter is registered before allowing them to cast a ballot. There also appeared to be databases for the so-called GEMS servers. These Global Election Management Systems are used to prepare paper and electronic ballots, tabulate votes and produce summaries of vote totals.) A report produced by the university’s IT department after the Lamb breach found numerous other security problems as well.
In October 2016, Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev and Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, both officers in the Russian military assigned to Unit 74455, allegedly conspire with others to hack into computers involved in U.S. election administration. This includes scoping out the websites of unidentified counties in Iowa, Florida and Georgia to identify vulnerabilities they could use to access back-end servers. The indictment doesn’t state directly, but implies, that the servers were part of infrastructure for county election offices.
In October 2016 Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens is announced as the next president of Kennesaw State University even though the University System of Georgia did not conduct a nationwide search.
In December of 2016, Kemp accuses DHS of hacking into the state's election systems.
In March of 2017, the Center for Election Systems finally makes public that it experienced a breach of its system, with 7.5 Million voter records potentially compromised. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp said, “This matter is deeply concerning, but I am confident the FBI working with KSU will track down the perpetrator.” This is despite Kemp's earlier worry about Obama-administration tampering, and Comey being a hold-over from that administration. The breach was actually Logan Lamb the previous August, who had told the Center for Election Systems of the problem. Kennesaw State University had not informed the Secretary of State about the breach. The FBI was investigating Logan and one of his acquaintances who was helping him verify if Kennesaw State had fixed the vulnerabilities.
In March of 2017, activists file motion against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp and other election officials seeking an injunction to prevent the three counties casting ballots in the 6th Congressional District race—Fulton, DeKalb and Cobb—from using their touch-screen machines and use paper ballots instead. In court filings and a hearing, they cited Lamb’s breach of the center’s server as one reason the machines, and the center’s oversight of them, cannot be trusted. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams ruled against the activists seeking an injunction, but she did so on a legal technicality. The judge also cited the lateness with which they brought the case—early voting for the June 20 runoff was already underway when the hearing began.
In June 2017, DHS refutes previous allegations of hacking into the Georgia voter system after through investigations by the DHS inspector general, which operates independently from the DHS chain of command.
In June 2017, a runoff for a previous special election is held in GA's 6th congressional district.
In July 2017, A suit is filed in the Fulton County Superior Court alleging that the security issues involved with the Center for Election Systems were known, and that, in light of the breach, the Georgia 6th Special Election results should be held in question. Four days later, the database retaining the voter records is wiped clean. It was later revealed that the FBI made a copy of the server from their investigation into Lamb's unintentional intrusion. It is currently unknown if that copy still exists, and if it contains the necessary data to verify a breach, or lack thereof.
In December 2017 Kennesaw State University President Sam Olens steps down, and leaves the position.
In April of 2018, Kemp creates a commission to review a new voting system, finally investigating the potential use of paper trails in Georgia's voting system.
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