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Is It Possible The Chinese Really Did Hack Our Elections?

The CEO of Konnech, a software company that provides services to American election officials, has been arrested in Michigan for storing sensitive personal data on servers located in China.

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Open.Ink
April 17, 2023

The CEO of Konnech, a software company that provides services to American election officials, has been arrested in Michigan for storing sensitive personal data on servers located in China. The data belonged to American election workers, and some of the work was being done in the United States using third-party contractors based in China. The Chinese contractors had "super-administration access" to the electoral systems on which Konnech worked, meaning they had the ability to do almost anything inside that system, including altering data or deleting data. Konnech is reported to have access to something called the Uniformed And Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act program, which is administered by the US Department of Defense. The full extent of this access is still unknown.

Is It Possible The Chinese Really Did Hack Our Elections?

I do a lot of speaking on election integrity. I say frequently –while there are endless problems with the security of our elections – I don’t believe the Chinese “hacked” the 2020 election. Maybe I was wrong. A number of weeks ago True the Vote broke the story that a company called Konnech in Michigan was storing data on American election workers on servers in China. True the Vote leaders Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were, of course, ridiculed by the so-called mainstream press. Then, Los Angeles arrested the head of Konnech and charged him with violations of U.S. laws on the handling of personally identifiable information – by storing it on servers in China.

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