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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 12:35 PM Oct 2017

Computer server in lawsuit against Georgia Republicans was erased but no one seems to know how

Republicans don’t want people of color to vote. Of course, they won’t ever say it this plainly but there is absolutely no doubt that this is the case. That’s why they are working so hard to suppress our votes whenever and wherever they can. In Georgia, this is particularly an issue—since the state’s own Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, has vowed to work with Trump’s voter fraud commission to share voter information. But it doesn’t stop there. Kemp and his office are being sued for cutting off voter registration early, thereby reducing the amount of time that people have to register to vote in federal elections. This week, another piece of that case came to light as it turns out that a computer server related to the state’s election system was erased just days after the lawsuit against Kemp and his office was filed.

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

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/27/1710347/-Computer-server-in-lawsuit-against-Georgia-Republicans-was-erased-but-no-one-seems-to-know-how?detail=emaildkre

Imagine that......

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Computer server in lawsuit against Georgia Republicans was erased but no one seems to know how (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2017 OP
Federal prison time for whoever erased the data. MineralMan Oct 2017 #1
Another case of Republican governance by "Whoopsie!" JHB Oct 2017 #2
Good ol' fashion southern political corruption. democratisphere Oct 2017 #3
It was the Georgia Satellites underpants Oct 2017 #4

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. Good ol' fashion southern political corruption.
Sat Oct 28, 2017, 12:51 PM
Oct 2017

Time to get the cyber forensics team on the job. redumbliCONs are so damn corrupt.

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