Georgia AG Quits Representing Election Officials In Lawsuit After Server Wiped

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By FRANK BAJAK Published NOVEMBER 1, 2017 2:26 PM

(AP) — The Georgia attorney general’s office will no longer represent state election officials in an elections integrity lawsuit in which a crucial computer server was quietly wiped clean three days after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.

The lawsuit aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized touchscreen election technology, which does not provide an auditable paper trail.

The server in question was a statewide staging location for key election-related data. It made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn’t fixed for six months after he first reported it to election authorities. Personal data was exposed for Georgia’s 6.7 million voters as were passwords used by county officials to access files.

The assistant state attorney general handling the case, Cristina Correia, notified the court and participating attorneys Wednesday that her office was withdrawing from the case, according to an email obtained by the AP.



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[SunSeeker]

1. The FBI computer forensics team should be looking at that server. nt

[Raster]

3. Yes they should. There's wiped and then there's "wiped."

[iluvtennis]

6. +1000. Unless they reformatted the hard drives or used an eraser app, data can be recovered.

[Raster]

9. Yes it can. Digital forensics can work wonders recovering "deleted" data.

[ffr]

2. Subpoena the server back and images.

If they too have been tampered with or destroyed, find out who did it and investigate from there. It would appear that someone is trying to cover their tracks or the tracks that lead to other damning news.

[Shrike47]

4. I suspect that the AG's office had sent out a standard 'preserve everything' e-mail.

When I was an Asst. AG and we got notice of a claim/suit/dispute, we would immediately notify the agency in question not to delete, destroy or alter anything. If the agency then deleted, destroyed or altered, the AG is a potential witness against the agency and would withdraw from representation.

[Gothmog]

5. Good

[iluvtennis]

7. And they likely stole the special election from Ossoff with this antiquated/insecure system

[mjvpi]

8. Georgia just had a really close special election. Examine all of their machines and tabulators.

If I understand this article correctly, passwords for the whole Georgia system were hacked.

Hmmm. Who was it that all of our national security agencies said hacked into our voting systems?

And we are supposed to believe that they hacked into our systems and then stopped and didn’t do anything with that access?

I’m 60. I remember the good old days when exit polling was accurate. Then we get these machines and exit polls universally stop being accurate. Where there are honest democratic elections, exit polls are accurate all over the world, but not here. Occom’s razor.

Personally, I think that the Russians have joined an ongoing party.

I can return an item to a department store, without a receipt, and they can look up transactions and make accurate changes on multiple computers simultaneously. And then look at what we accept for a level of security and accuracy in the most important function in our democracy.