With worn-out clichés about the dead voting, Chicago used to be the poster child for voter fraud. But if any state is a poster child for terrible election practices, it is surely Georgia. Bold claims demand bold evidence, and unfortunately there's plenty; on Monday, McClatchy reported a string of irregularities from the state's primary election in May, including one precinct with a 243-percent turnout.
McClatchy's data comes from a federal lawsuit filed against the state. In addition to the problem in Habersham County's Mud Creek precinct, where it appeared that 276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots, the piece describes numerous other issues with both voter registration and electronic voting machines. (In fact it was later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct.)
Multiple sworn statements from voters describe how they turned up at their polling stations only to be turned away or directed to other precincts. Even more statements allege incorrect ballots, frozen voting machines, and other issues.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by stretch611 on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:28AM
Mind you that GA doesn't give a damn to get the numbers right.
A security researcher in GA, found a database containing registration records for the state’s 6.7 million voters; multiple PDFs with instructions and passwords for election workers to sign in to a central server on Election Day; and software files for the state’s ExpressPoll pollbooks — electronic devices used by poll workers to verify that a voter is registered before allowing them to cast a ballot. The files were supposed to be behind a password-protected firewall, but the center had misconfigured its server so they were accessible to anyone. The site was also using a years-old version of Drupal that had a critical software vulnerability long known to security researchers. (and this is just a brief summary) also from Ars [arstechnica.com] Days after the state was sued, the servers were erased and had the hard drives degaussed. Also, Ars [arstechnica.com]
The current Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, who's job is to oversee elections, is now running for governor and refuses to step down as SoS.
Mind you, Brian Kemp, who is running for governor, has had his campaign ads in the national spotlight... one for pointing a shotgun at a young man who wanted to date his daughter [youtube.com] and in another ad, said that he has a big pickup truck “just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself.” [youtube.com]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P