州政府遮遮掩掩,欲蓋彌彰
2017年7月3日,有佐治亞選民聯同Colorado選舉監察組CGG(Coalition for Good Governance)向佐治亞Fulton County法院提告,要求推翻上月第六選區嘅選舉結果,並取締佐治亞州現有投票系統(159頁起訴書)
理由係呢個投票系統一直都有安全隱患,甚至無投票紙check返投票結果,而且從2016年開始可能就已受侵害
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=93549
A group of Georgia voters and a Colorado-based watchdog organization filed a lawsuit late Monday asking a judge to overturn the results of last month’s 6th Congressional District special election and scrap the state’s voting system.
The complaint, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges that state and local election officials ignored warnings for months that Georgia’s centralized election system — already known for potential security flaws and lacking a paper trail to verify results — had been compromised and left unprotected from intruders since at least last summer.
四日之後,KSU嘅選舉系統中心就將上文講嘅server(elections.kennesaw.edu)清理一空
October 27, 2017 APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
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 later obtained by the AP. More emails obtained in a public records request confirmed the wipe.
KSU傳媒辦公室足足一日都拒絕評論,之後先話清理係標準程序 ,同時都唔肯透露邊個落命令清理
After declining comment for more than 24 hours, Kennesaw State’s media office issued a statement late Thursday attributing the server wiping to “standard operating procedure.” It did not respond to the AP’s question on who ordered the action.
而當時州務卿Brian Kemp(共和黨人,直接負責選舉事務)嘅發言人就話,唔關我事,我乜都唔知,全部都係選舉中心嘅錯
The Kennesaw elections center answers to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor in 2018 and the suit’s main defendant. His spokeswoman issued a statement Thursday saying his office had neither involvement nor advanced warning of the decision. It blamed “the undeniable ineptitude” at the Kennesaw State elections center.