This tweet reminds me of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's ~interesting~ history with election security...
In the summer of 2016, when most people were just starting to wake up to this issue, Kemp told me that fears of Russian hacking were a creation of "the D.C. media and the bureaucrats": politico.com/story/2016/08/… 
Then, a month after the election, Kemp launched a bizarre attack on DHS, claiming the department had tried to hack his office. documentcloud.org/documents/3234…
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson quickly explained that the supposed hack was nothing of the sort: scribd.com/document/33756…
But Kemp wrote to Trump during the transition to ask his new administration to investigate: politico.com/story/2016/12/…
But Kemp wrote to Trump during the transition to ask his new administration to investigate: politico.com/story/2016/12/…
A few weeks later, Kemp blasted DHS for designating elections as part of the nation's "critical infrastructure," calling it "partisan politics." politico.com/story/2017/01/…
State election officials from both parties said it felt like a federal takeover of elections (it was not).
State election officials from both parties said it felt like a federal takeover of elections (it was not).
Kemp, whose state votes entirely on paperless (and thus un-auditable) electronic voting machines, has rarely talked about the dangers of paperless systems. Here's one example I found: politico.com/story/2016/10/…
Kemp has been named in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Georgia's voting system based on its inability to produce auditable results. usnews.com/news/best-stat…
Kemp was also forced to end a contract with a local university that had been running the state's elections after that university tried to cover up a breach. ajc.com/news/state--re…
And Kemp has been relentlessly on-brand as a conservative champion of free enterprise and basher of the federal government, even when DHS wanted to offer it free cybersecurity services. politico.com/magazine/story…
Kemp is now the Republican nominee for governor of Georgia.
It'll be interesting to see whether the gubernatorial campaign touches on any of these issues.
It'll be interesting to see whether the gubernatorial campaign touches on any of these issues.
Oops, I forgot to mention the conclusion to the "DHS hacked Georgia" story that went viral in the right-wing media.
Five months into the Trump administration, the DHS inspector general concluded that Kemp's claims were bogus. cyberscoop.com/dhs-georgia-el…
Five months into the Trump administration, the DHS inspector general concluded that Kemp's claims were bogus. cyberscoop.com/dhs-georgia-el…
From our man on the scene at DHS's cyber summit. Oh to be a fly on the wall for that conversation...
