Desperate measures

Because they can't win if they don't cheat.

Civil-rights organizations have sued on behalf of several minority-rights and voting-rights groups [in Georgia]. In response, a federal judge on Friday ordered the state to change its voting procedures to make it easier for voters flagged as potential noncitizens to prove their citizenship at the polls. And a different federal judge last month ordered Georgia election officials to take additional measures to notify and give people a chance to fix problems with their absentee-ballot applications or absentee ballots.

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Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial nominee said Sunday his office is investigating the state’s Democratic Party over what it called a failed hacking attempt of the voter-registration system, a charge his Democratic opponent called a distraction in a high-profile election that has been dominated by issues of race and voting rights.

In a short statement on its website, the office of Republican Brian Kemp said little about its investigation and offered no evidence, saying only that the probe began Saturday night after a “failed attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system.” The office said no personal data was breached. “Our system remains secure,” the statement said.

The Democratic Party of Georgia denied it attempted to improperly access voter information. “As Kemp aims to deflect blame for his failures, the questions everyone must be asking is: Why was the system vulnerable in the first place?” the party said in a statement.

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Some cybersecurity researchers, in an interview and on social media, cast doubt on Mr. Kemp’s claims, noting that identifying the source of any alleged hack is an incredibly difficult aspect to any cyberinvestigation.

Mr. Kemp, 54 years old, was one of only a few secretaries of state who declined DHS offers to help improve the security of state voting systems in 2016, as reports were beginning to emerge of Russia-backed hacking of state election systems. And in December 2016, Mr. Kemp accused DHS itself of hacking into his office’s network, which the department’s inspector general later concluded wasn’t a cyberattack but residual traffic from a government employee doing a proper check of the state’s firearms database.

Mr. Kemp’s move, two days before final voting in an election already drawing Georgia voters to the polls in record numbers, comes as the 44-year-old [Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacy] Abrams and her supporters are accusing Mr. Kemp of using his power to oversee elections to suppress minority votes.

  WSJ

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.