FBI investigating alleged breach in Georgia at KSUs elections center

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http://www.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/fbi-investigating-alleged-breach-georgia-ksu-elections-center/cvjxRG3MH3lba48FsqWqsM/

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating an alleged data breach in Georgia at the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.
The situation is still developing, although the Secretary of State’s Office said Friday that the investigation is not related to its own network and is not a breach of its database containing the personal information on Georgia’s 6.6 million registered voters. The office referred all other questions to both university and federal officials.

In a statement released Friday afternoon, the university said it was “working with federal law enforcement officials to determine whether and to what extent a data breach may have occurred involving records maintained by the Center for Election Systems. Because this involves a pending criminal investigation, Kennesaw State will have no further comment on this matter and any inquiries should be addressed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” the statement said.

The FBI had no immediate comment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The election systems center at the university has since 2002 overseen the state’s election operations and voting machines. It does that work through an agreement with the Secretary of State’s Office. It does not, however, maintain live databases or the voter registration database.

Interesting that they are the ones who maintain the voting machines in Ga. Those machines are getting old and somebody has to advise wgen theu are no longer reliable.

[Glitterati]

1. Oh, this is HUGE, no doubt

This is where the BALLOTS are programmed.

Oh yes, this is massive.

If someone wanted to hack an election in Georgia, this is EXACTLY where it would be done.

The master ballots for every county are programmed here. Once they are completed, the ballots are simply duplicated for each and every voting machine then shipped to the counties for the election.

[sarah FAILIN]

3. THIS.

This is what I've been saying. You don't have to hack every machine. Compromise the programmers that tell the machines what to say

[Wellstone ruled]

2. This might be the smoking gun

many of us suspected as to Vote Switching and Bogus tallies.

[brer cat]

4. I can take of that:

Those machines are getting old and somebody has to advise wgen theu are no longer reliable.

They are reliably republican and will remain so until the republicans are no longer in charge of the machines.

[2naSalit]

5. K&R