Georgia election server wiped after suit filed

trouble13 said:

I use to travel to Knoxville for work and you all definitely live in your own reality there. Freindly town, Had a great time, but met some real odd balls too.

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LOL, no idea where you worked or who you dealt with, but I've always thought folks around here were pretty normal. About the only real oddballs I meet are the honest to goodness hillbillies - they're about 100 years behind the times. Do their own thing up there in the mountains, and have their own sort of code. A cousin lived up in the mountains on a pretty remote stretch, and hired some of those guys for sawmill work and odd jobs, which they did from time to time, but only when they wanted. Otherwise, they hunted whatever whenever, and grew a little pot on the GSMNP property, and made money that way. Pretty interesting people.

A couple of little stories while I'm thinking about it. He was having a problem with poachers, and I asked why he didn't call the wildlife people - TWRA. He told us they weren't going to catch them in any event, and if they did the family would likely burn them out. It just wasn't done. So, when he had a problem with people stealing his apples off his commercial orchard at night, he hired those guys I know to stand watch for a couple of nights, and that was fine, and they left him alone after that. Another time this young kid had punched his girlfriend in a fight. The dad saw him walking on the road some time after that, and shot him with bird shot in the back. He could have killed him if he wanted, but he just was dispensing his own mountain justice. The bird shot hurt like hell I'm sure but the kid was fine in a couple weeks.

JasperL said:

APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed - ABC News



This story is why I have little patience with people claiming to worry about "voter fraud." If a candidate or party is going to actually try to steal, corrupt, alter an election, they'll do it by altering the count or other actions by guys getting paid $500 an hour or more and that will affect thousands or 10s or 100s of thousands of votes with some keystrokes on a computer behind the scene.

Bottom line is we don't know if the Georgia election was hacked, and thanks to the wipe, will never know, but this is the kind of thing that does in fact threaten election integrity, our votes. Not a handful of people voting more than once, etc. - the stuff purportedly prevented by photo ID and related nonsense.

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It seems to me that the reformers have a point. A system that can be destroyed so easily by a custodian is indeed an antiquated system that needs replacement. Any important system these days is mirrored in different locations to prevent what did happen. Does anyone think that the missile launch computers are vulnerable to the midnight crew emptying the trash?

MTAtech said:

It seems to me that the reformers have a point. A system that can be destroyed so easily by a custodian is indeed an antiquated system that needs replacement.

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The server that was wiped wasn't even a part of the voting system. It held intormation used to prepare for elections (voter information, training files, code to prep equipment, etc.).

Taylor said:

The server that was wiped wasn't even a part of the voting system. It held intormation used to prepare for elections (voter information, training files, code to prep equipment, etc.).

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From the complaint:

There also appeared to be databases for the so-called GEMS servers. These Global Election Management
Systems are used to prepare paper and electronic ballots, tabulate votes and produce summaries of vote totals.”1

That is, Lamb discovered that he could access via the internet all of
Georgia’s voter registration records, including personally identifiable information,
documents with election day passwords to access the central server for the election,
and the code that was to be used to run the election.

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It seems to me the many weaknesses of today's electronic voting machines was exposed in an HBO documentary nearly 10 years ago.

The digital world is way cool and time saving, but very vulnerable to manipulation.