Georgia Election Server Wiped Clean After Lawsuit Filed.

[Cattledog]

A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.

The server’s data was destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state’s election system. The data wipe was revealed in an email — sent last week from an assistant state attorney general to plaintiffs in the case — that was obtained by the AP.

More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.

The lawsuit, filed by a diverse group of election reform advocates, aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized election technology. The server in question, which served as a statewide staging location for key election-related data, made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn’t fixed six months after he reported it to election authorities.

Wiped Out
It’s not clear who ordered the server’s data irretrievably erased.

Read the article at:
https://www.wabe.org/report-georgia-election-server-wiped-lawsuit-filed/

[Kentonio]

1. Crooked bastards

I really hope the FBI kept their copy.

[riversedge]

2. growl!!

[riversedge]

3. .....Other backups also appear to be gone.**********

geeze, the crooks did a! good job


.....Other backups also appear to be gone. In the same email to plaintiffs’ attorneys, assistant state Attorney General Cristina Correia wrote that two backup servers were also wiped clean on Aug. 9, just as the lawsuit moved to federal court.
Failing To Service The Server

A 140-page collection of Kennesaw State emails, obtained Friday by the Coalition for Good Governments via an open records search, details the destruction of the data on all three servers and a partial and ultimately ineffective effort by Kennesaw State systems engineers to fix the main server’s security hole.

[democratisphere]

4. The South will rise again, no matter what it takes, ya'all!

[angstlessk]

5. Yeah, shit floats! (I was born & raised in VA)