So, here are the details.
A concerned citizen reported that the website was vulnerable. He sent an email about it to the Democrats. The volunteer that received the email passed it to the person responsible for such things. That person passed it to someone who passed it to the FBI, they passed it to the Secretary of State's office.
Meanwhile, that same concerned citizen apparently reported it to the Secretary of State's office also.
At about that point the Secretary of State's office decided to report to the FBI, because she had sent the initial email they had, that the Democratic volunteer tried to hack the system.
Then the techies started changing up the website code and started denying that there was ever a hole.
Kemp deserves to be out on his ass.
Here are the emails:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Umv...gBRghgcE-/view
Here is a write up of the details:
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CNN obtained a series of emails the Secretary of State's office said led it to level the accusations of hacking into its voter registration system by the Georgia Democratic Party. The emails refer to findings by a voter who said he had discovered potential vulnerabilities in the state's voter information page and its online registration system.
That voter, Richard Wright, took his concerns to the Georgia Democratic Party's voter protection hotline to alert authorities, according to his lawyer, David Cross. Cross told CNN Wright is not affiliated with any political party and does not want to speak to any media right now. He also said that Wright has some software background, but is not a hacker.
According to Cross, Wright -- the voter whose findings prompted accusations of attempted hacking -- was looking up his own registration information on the state's My Voter Page when he discovered he could access other people's information too. The system, he found, doesn't verify who's making the query and, for that reason, it appeared to him that voters' private information could be accessed and that voter registrations could even be edited by anyone on the site.
Wright went over his concerns with Cross, who has battled with Kemp over similar issues before, including a 2016 lawsuit that alleged cyber security vulnerabilities in Georgia's voting system, at 3 p.m. on Friday. Unclear on the implications of what Wright had found, Cross brought in a cyber security firm to look at the website. While that firm couldn't verify the vulnerability either, they too saw a potential for concern, Cross told CNN.
"If Richard Wright had never contacted the Democratic Party on Saturday morning," his lawyer, David Cross, told CNN, "no one would be talking about the Democratic Party. It's only because Wright alerted them that Kemp draws it back to them."
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/04/polit...ion/index.html
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Candice Broce, the spokeswoman for the Secretary of State's office told CNN on Sunday night that there were no vulnerabilities in the system, said the system is secure
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