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Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks
2020-05-29 23:32

On Friday, ProPublica and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation found "No evidence of damage to network or computers, and no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data."

Kemp's hacking claim followed a report from a voter with software development experience about access control vulnerabilities in the state's My Voter Page and its online voter registration system.

In a statement emailed to The Register, Sachin Varghese, legal counsel for the Democratic Party of Georgia, accused Kemp of trying to blame his opponents for flaws in systems he oversaw.

"When glaring security vulnerabilities were discovered days before the biggest election in Georgia history, then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp falsely accused his political opponents of hacking while scrambling to fix errors behind the scenes," said Varghese.

"As was clear in November 2018 and is abundantly clear now from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's internal documents and reporting from the AJC and ProPublica, that claim has zero merit. Brian Kemp lied."


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