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The District of Columbia Board of Elections is in hot water after House Republicans called them out for a major breach of the voter database that put citizens’ personal information at risk. The GOP members, led by Rep. Bryan Steil and Rep. Laurel Lee, are not happy campers and are demanding answers from the elections board.
House Republicans demand DC address election security following voter database hack https://t.co/pEZMWdqbu9 https://t.co/pEZMWdqbu9
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 4, 2024
So, what’s the dealio? Well, the elections board apparently had no clue that their voter database had been hacked until a whopping two weeks later! And get this: they didn’t even bother to tell the registered voters that their info had been compromised for over TWO WHOLE MONTHS! Talk about dropping the ball, am I right?
The Republicans are all up in arms about this, and they’re not holding back. They’re blasting the elections board for not taking the breach seriously and for failing to keep voters’ info safe and secure. I mean, come on, people! If you can’t trust that your personal deets are on lockdown, how can you have any faith in the election process?
Apparently, some sneaky hackers got their grubby little hands on almost 4,000 voters’ records, snagging all kinds of juicy details like partial Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, and even contact info like phone numbers and email addresses. Yikes! That’s some serious invasion of privacy right there.
But wait, there’s more! The GOP gang is tossing out some scary scenarios, suggesting that these cyber crooks could’ve messed with voter info, deleted folks from the voter roll, or pulled some sneaky moves with ballot statuses. And if that isn’t enough to make your blood boil, they’re also wagging their fingers at the elections board, warning that this whole mess could seriously shake folks’ confidence in the election system. Not cool, D.C. board, not cool.
The angry Republicans are demanding some answers, and they’re not taking no for an answer. They want to know what the heck the elections board is doing to get to the bottom of this mess, how and when they finally got around to telling voters their privacy had been violated, and if they can guarantee that nobody’s been messing with the voter info. And you better believe they’re not letting this slide, ’cause they’re also throwing some major shade at the D.C. government for not keeping their systems safe from those crafty cyber villains.
So, yeah, the GOP is not amused, and they’re not backing down. The ball’s in the elections board’s court now, and they’ve got some serious explaining to do. Tick-tock, D.C. board, tick-tock.
