Lawsuit Demands Overturning Results Of Georgia Congressional Election

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lawsuit-void-georgia-congressional-election-results?utm_content=bufferd3493&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Georgia’s electronic touchscreen voting system is so riddled with problems that the results of the most expensive House race in U.S. history should be tossed out and a new election held, according to a lawsuit filed by a government watchdog group and six Georgia voters.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in Fulton County Superior Court by the Colorado-based Coalition for Good Governance and voters who are members of the group. It seeks to overturn the results of the June 20 runoff election between Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Handel was declared the winner with 52 percent of the vote to Ossoff’s 48.

The named defendants include Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, members of the State Election Board, local election officials in Fulton, Cobb and DeKalb counties and the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University.

The lawsuit claims Georgia’s touchscreen voting system has severe security problems, lacks verifiable paper ballots and cannot be legally used for elections.

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The suit cites the work of private cybersecurity researcher Logan Lamb, who discovered last August that a misconfigured server had left Georgia’s 6.7 million voter records and other sensitive files exposed to hackers. The complaint also notes that seven months after Lamb made that discovery, another researcher was able to do the same.

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1. According to a Politico article from June

extensive hacking vulnerabilities were reported to the authorities, and they assumed that it would be corrected before the GA elections. It appears it never was.
[link:http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/will-the-georgia-special-election-get-hacked-215255|