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Georgia insists server deletion was not undertaken to delete evidence"Narrative asserted in the media that the data was nefariously deleted is without merit."
CYRUS FARIVAR - Ars Technica 11/1/2017, 4:12 PM
Georgia state officials said Monday that the recent reports of server deletion "were not undertaken to delete evidence." The conclusion came as part of a two-page "investigation report" authored by Ryan Germany of the Georgia Secretary of States office.
As Ars reported last week, a university server and its backups, believed to be key to a pending federal lawsuit filed against Georgia election officials, were deleted, according to e-mails recently released under a public records request.
Also this week, the states Office of the Attorney General (OAG) told plaintiffs that it would no longer be representing state election officials. The lawsuit will now be taken over by Barnes Law Group, headed by former Georgia Governor Ray Barnes.
Georgia previously came under heavy scrutiny after a researcher discovered significant problems with his home states voting system. A lawsuit soon followed in state court, asking the court to annul the results of the June 20 special election for Congress and to prevent Georgias existing computer-based voting system from being used again. The case, Curling v. Kemp, was filed in Fulton County Superior Court on July 3 but has since been moved to federal court.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/georgia-insists-server-deletion-was-not-undertaken-to-delete-evidence/
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Georgia insists server deletion was "not undertaken to delete evidence" (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2017
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. How do they know? Have they found the guy who did it?
If it's a "standard IT-procedure", where is the policy-handbook that says that it is?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Georgia investigated itself and found itself innocent
Draw your own conclusions.