AP NewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

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AP NewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
By FRANK BAJAK Today

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

The lawsuit, filed by a diverse group of election reform advocates, aims to force Georgia to retire its antiquated and heavily criticized election technology. The server in question, which served as a statewide staging location for key election-related data, made national headlines in June after a security expert disclosed a gaping security hole that wasn’t fixed six months after he reported it to election authorities.

WIPED OUT

It’s not clear who ordered the server’s data irretrievably erased.

https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f/APNewsBreak:-Georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed

[CurtEastPoint]

1. And the incapable SOS Brian Kemp will likely be GA's next governor. We are more fucked.

[brer cat]

2. We are really caught.

Can't clean up the voting process until we vote out the republicans , but we can't vote them out with the current control they have over the process. Yep, we are more fucked.

[MGKrebs]

3. This is really interesting, and scary.

Why would anyone wipe those servers? It can't be to hide the lax security because we already know about that. What else would someone be trying to hide? Even if the data showed that an election was manipulated, who would want to hide that, and why?

The suspicion that you have to pursue is that someone with access to that server did the manipulating or helped in the manipulating. And who would do that?

I hope the GBI and the AG and even the FBI are on this. Very serious implications.