Georgia election officials knew system had 'critical vulnerabilities' before 2016 vote
Georgia election officials got a friendly warning in August 2016 that their electronic voting system could be easily breached.
But less than a month before the November election, a state cybersecurity official fretted that critical vulnerabilities persisted, internal emails show.
The emails, obtained through a voting security groups open records request, offer a glimpse into a Georgia election security team that appeared to be outmatched even as evidence grew that Russian operatives were seeking to penetrate state and county election systems across the country.
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The disclosures add to alarms about the security of Georgias elections not only in 2016, but also heading into this falls midterm elections.
I think these emails reveal that they recognized this system was catastrophically insecure, said Robert McGuire, a Seattle lawyer representing citizen activists in a lawsuit that seeks to force Georgia to scrap its paperless electronic voting machines this fall and shift to paper ballots.
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