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Election Firm Knew Data Had Been Sent to China, Prosecutors Say

The executive of a small Michigan elections software company was charged with grand theft by embezzlement and conspiracy to commit a crime.

When Eugene Yu’s small election software company signed a contract to help Los Angeles County organize poll workers for the 2020 election, he agreed to keep the workers’ personal data in the United States.

But the company, Konnech, transferred personal data on thousands of the election workers to developers in China who were writing and troubleshooting software, according to a court filing that Los Angeles County prosecutors made on Thursday.

Los Angeles prosecutors initially accused Mr. Yu of embezzling public money by knowingly violating the terms of the company’s contract. Since searching Konnech’s offices and Mr. Yu’s home, the prosecutors have also accused him of conspiring with others to commit a crime, according to the new legal filing. It is rare for an executive to face criminal charges for potentially mishandling data. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday.

In the filing, prosecutors said a project manager at Konnech had sent an internal email early this month saying the company would no longer send personal data to Chinese contractors. “We need to ensure the security privacy and confidentially,” the email said.

In a separate message, sent in August, the project manager noted that the contractors had high-level access to all of the poll worker software used by its customers. He called it a “huge security issue.”

The district attorney’s office said it was sifting through a trove of documents seized in its search of Konnech’s offices and Mr. Yu’s home last week. If those files reveal similar crimes in other counties, prosecutors could hand off the case to federal investigators.

More than 20 attorneys general, district attorneys and election officials have contacted the district attorney’s office over the past week, they said.

Mark Kriger, one of Mr. Yu’s lawyers, said in a bond hearing last week that Mr. Yu had participated in two voluntary interviews several weeks ago with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Yu told the agency that he was not aware of any data from Konnech being stored in China, the lawyer said at the hearing.

The F.B.I. agents were surprised to learn about Mr. Yu’s arrest, Mr. Kriger said at the hearing.

Mr. Yu, 64 and a Chinese-born American citizen, co-founded Konnech in 2002 as a phone technology company. He turned it into an elections software company in the late 2000s.

In statements made to The New York Times before his arrest, Mr. Yu said that he had shuttered Konnech’s Chinese subsidiary in 2021 and that he no longer had employees there.

Two people with knowledge of the company, who would speak only anonymously because of the legal proceedings, said it was known within Konnech that employees should avoid bringing up the use of Chinese contractors when talking to customers.

After Mr. Yu’s arrest, Konnech sent an identical letter to several customers claiming that they had “never hosted your data or system in servers outside of the United States.”

Fairfax County, Va., the City of Detroit, and Prince William County, Va., terminated their contracts with Konnech after Mr. Yu’s arrest.

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I predict things are about to get exceedingly rough for the Konnech lawyers still trying to slog ahead with Eugene Yu's defamation lawsuit against True The Vote's Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht.

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These people are fucking animals. 👇

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Eugene Yu told Judge Kenneth Hoyt that Konnech does not store any American poll worker data in China.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office says their investigators found internal Konnech communications admitting that the company stored American poll worker data in China.

So when does the defamation lawsuit against Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips get dropped❓

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NEW - The voting machine hacking threat in the US "you probably haven’t heard about": cellular modems that transmit unofficial election-night results.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/14/wireless-modems-could-endanger-midterms-00061769

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The Pee Tape conspiracy rag The New York Times really thinks they can say that about anyone else?

H/t Citizen Free Press

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Elon level trolling 😂😂😂

That is a HUGE swing over the past few weeks.

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

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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