Election Software Firm Used by LA County - and by Counties in Swing States - Gave 'Superadministrator' Privileges to Contractors in China

REDSTATE ^ | October 14, 2022 | Jennifer Van Laar

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As we reported on October 4, Eugene Yu, a Chinese immigrant and CEO of Konnech, an election software company, was arrested “as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of [Los Angeles County election] workers,” which officials believed “was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China.”

The other shocking part of the story was that LA County District Attorney George Gascon, who’s not known as being tough on crime, announced the arrest and extradition and that investigators from his office had been working on the case.

One of Konnech’s software offerings is a program called PollChief, which schedules election workers and assists elections officials with supply and logistics procedures. In 2019 LA County entered into a contract with Konnech, and a sole-source contract worth more than $2 million was finalized in 2020. As part of the contract, Konnech was to abide by state and federal law, and to various information security procedures, which an LA County District Attorney’s office investigator described in a complaint supporting the request for a warrant for Yu’s arrest:

• “[C]ontractor shall screen and conduct background checks on all Contractor personnel contacting County’s Confidential Information, including Personally Identifiable Information, for potential security risks and require all employees and contractors to sign an appropriate written confidentiality non-disclosure agreement.

• Personally Identifiable Information, and County’s Confidential Information: (i) may only be made available and accessible to those parties explicitly authorized under the Contract or otherwise expressly approved by County in writing.

• Only Contractor’s staff who are based in the United States and are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States shall have access to any County data, including personally identifiable information, hosted in County’s instance of the System Software.

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This complaint, which is dated October 13, 2022, contains additional information about what investigators have found – information that does not lead to any type of confidence in the security of our election information.

Despite Eugene Yu’s insistence in a verified court pleading that “all of Konnech’s U.S. customer data is secured and stored exclusively on protected computers located within the United States,” the Los Angeles County DA’s office found that:

• “On or about October 10, 2019, through October 4, 2022, Eugene Yu and other employees at Konnech, Inc. were providing these services to Los Angeles County using third-party contractors based in China.

• “…Konnech employees known and unknown sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with creating and fixing Konnech’s internal ‘PollChief’ software.”

So, the personal identifying information of US election workers was intentionally sent not just out of the country, but to China. And to third-party contractors, which is potentially in complete violation of the state’s anti-independent contracting AB5 law.

And, just as many have suspected, Chinese “contractors” (code for CCP operatives; don’t kid yourself) have had full access to not just the personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers (emphasis mine): “On or about August 18, 2022, Luis Nabergoi, project manager for Konnech’s contract with the County of Los Angeles, confirmed via the messaging app DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had ‘superadministration’ privileges for all PollChief clients. Mr. Nabergoi described the situation as a ‘huge security issue.'”

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Read the rest here:
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2022/10/14/election-software-firm-used-by-la-county-and-by-counties-in-swing-states-gave-superadministrator-privileges-to-contractors-in-china-n643007

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President Trump was right.
Mike Lindell was right and now has a clear path to bring out the irrefutable proof which was recently held back by a gag order.

Update:
The Konnech infiltration of LA’s Election Management System (EMS) is now being reported as having breached the voter roll database, and is stated to be the reason LA District Attorney Gascon, a known lefty progressive, was FORCED to arrest Konnech CEO “Eugene” Yu.

Let the above sink in.

This merits a Declaration of War.
We are headed for kinetic war, possibly nuclear.

Pray for America

[TexasGator]

Search works

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=superadministrator

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I searched it smartass, and it wasn’t there.

Look at the time difference.

And the 1st comment of this thread has an important development. READ IT.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[PIF]

As long as everyone understands there is no such thing in China as private ownership: all business big and small are, by edict of Emperor Xi Jinping, run or managed by the CCP. Including this one.

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Bannon’s War Room reports what will follow. Xi will order a blockade of Taiwan presumably air and sea. This should in normal course prompt a US sea response, but will threaten World War because Biden is demented and those that control him are in league with the CCP.

My take is Biden will respond in limp fashion, much as in Afghanistan, then be scripted as to reach some sort of negotiated settlement that ‘protects’ the People of Taiwan.

Somehow the Marxists behind Biden will hatch a plan to arrest MAGA extremists intimidating ‘voters’ at ballot dropboxes (mules) to Save Our Democracy, or some such.

[PIF]

never happen - China and especially the CCP cannot afford a war now or in the foreseeable future.