Georgia official discounts threat of exposed voter records
ATLANTA — After a researcher notified officials of a major security lapse at the centre managing Georgia’s election technology, leading computer scientists urged the state’s top elections official to order a thorough outside probe to determine if its voting systems had been compromised.
There’s no indication that happened.
At the same time, Secretary of State Brian Kemp contested a lawsuit demanding the state abandon its antiquated touchscreen voting machines , which are highly susceptible to being rigged by hackers in all-but-undetectable ways, and whose votes couldn’t be reliably recounted.
And when voting-transparency activists sought a top-to-bottom review of state voting systems, Kemp’s top lawyer told them it would cost $10,000 and take six months — extending well past a closely watched congressional runoff vote on June 20.