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

[bitt]

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.

[bitt]

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[fuente]

Who is the contracting officer. Arrest them and the oversight of such activity. Shut it all down, then do a full blown audit.

[broken_clock]

So much for the Newsolini recall vote.

I need to hear more from the, “you get what you vote for crowd”.

Do we?

[szweig]

Who are “they”? “Arrest ‘them’”????

[Chode]

it’ll never end...

[StormEye]

"Only Contractor’s staff who are based in the United
States and are citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States ..."

"Lawful permanent residents" doesn't cut it either.
No one but United States citizens should be allowed
in any election election office or facility in the USA or it's territories.
And that includes working in campaigns or
or running as a candidate in any election! Foreigners
do not have the right to insinuate themselves in elections
in the USA. It's illegal!