“It’s not clear who ordered the server’s data irretrievably erased”by digby
Sure, Republicans erasing all the data on their winning election after it was subpoenaed is perfectly normal. Why would anyone ever want to know if “someone” meddled with the vote? Nothing to see here…
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 and the suit’s main defendant. His spokeswoman issued a statement Thursday saying his office had neither involvement nor advanced warning of the decision. It blamed “the undeniable ineptitude” at the Kennesaw State elections center.
After declining comment for more than 24 hours, Kennesaw State’s media office issued a statement late Thursday attributing the server wiping to “standard operating procedure.” It did not respond to the AP’s question on who ordered the action.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, mostly Georgia voters, want to scrap the state’s 15-year-old vote-management system — particularly its 27,000 AccuVote touchscreen voting machines, hackable devices that don’t use paper ballots or keep hardcopy proof of voter intent. The plaintiffs were counting on an independent security review of the Kennesaw server, which held elections staging data for counties, to demonstrate the system’s unreliability.
Wiping the server “forestalls any forensic investigation at all,” said Richard DeMillo, a Georgia Tech computer scientist following the case. “People who have nothing to hide don’t behave this way.”
No they don’t.
This is one of the big issues facing our democracy and nobody can face doing anything about it for some reason.
All elections should go to paper ballot, right now. We can wait for a human count overseen by both parties and neutral observers, with a paper trail to be audited. Even if it takes days it’s not the end of the world. At this point unless they do this I’m not sure Americans will ever have another election that will be considered legitimate.
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