TIMELINE: How Kemp Turned Dem Cyber Warnings Into Claims Of A Dem Hack
By Tierney Sneed
November 5, 2018 3:53 pm
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) on Sunday proved the old saying “no good deed goes unpunished” by taking concerns flagged for his lawyers about potential cyber vulnerabilities in the state’s voter registration website and turning it into an unfounded claim that Democrats had tried to hack the system.
The maneuver earned Kemp widespread criticism among election law experts. UC-Irvine professor Rick Hasen accused him of engaging in a “last-minute act of banana-republic level voter manipulation.”
The Georgia Democratic Party was among those who raised concerns about the potential vulnerability, which had to do with a voter who noticed that tinkering with the url on the online voter registration system might allow you to access others’ personal information. However, it appears that Kemp’s legal team first caught wind of the issue from David Cross, an attorney who had represented challengers in a lawsuit against Kemp over security issues with the state’s election system.
A spokeswoman for the Secretary of State’s office declined to answer TPM’s questions about the specific communications that happened over the weekend, and referred TPM to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
The bureau would only send TPM a statement confirming a request by the secretary of state to “investigate allegations of computer crimes related to the Secretary of State’s website(s)” and that a “criminal investigation will be conducted by the GBI’s Georgia Cyber Crime Center.
Based on what Cross, the Georgia Democrats and other people involved told TPM, as well as reporting done by other outlets, here’s how the whole fiasco seems to have unfolded:
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