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It's becoming more obvious that KONNECH who specialize in mail in voting are in these three nations.
US exposed via TrueTheVote
Queensland AUS exposed via Queensland Parliament Question time and confirmed via KanekoaTheGreat/trueTheVote
UK, just announced China interference in their 2020/2021 election.
UK to blame China for hack on election watchdog
By David Hughes and Nina Lloyd
Updated March 25 2024 - 8:05pm, first published 7:59pm
A British minister says the UK will "stop at nothing" to protect against cyber attacks amid accusations China targeted the nation's elections watchdog.
The UK government is expected to say Beijing-linked hackers were behind a cyber attack on the Electoral Commission that exposed the personal data of 40 million voters, as well as 43 individuals including MPs and peers.
Efforts to step up pressure on China in response include looking at sanctions on individuals thought to be connected with the alleged activity, according to multiple reports.
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden is expected to update MPs on the situation later on Monday.
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8568082/uk-to-blame-china-for-hack-on-election-watchdog/
The Electoral Commission attack was identified in October 2022 but the hackers had first been able to access the commission's systems for more than a year, since August 2021.
The registers held at the time of the cyber attack include the name and address of anyone in the UK who was registered to vote between 2014 and 2022, as well as the names of those registered as overseas voters.
Nuclear minister Andrew Bowie said he could not comment on the speculation about China but told LBC Radio the government had invested greatly in cyber security and increased intelligence powers.
"And we will stop at nothing to ensure that the British people, our democracy, our freedom of speech and our way of life is defended," he said.
https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/speeches/spk2022/Fiona_Simpson-Maroochydore-20221014-976695817496.pdf
Speech By
Fiona Simpson
MEMBER FOR MAROOCHYDORE
Record of Proceedings, 14 October 2022
PRIVATE MEMBERS' STATEMENT
Konnech
Ms SIMPSON (Maroochydore—LNP) (2.32 pm): News that the CEO of an overseas owned
election software company that has a contract with the Electoral Commission of Queensland has been
arrested on suspicion of putting American polling booth worker data on to Chinese servers is extremely
alarming. Eugene Yu, the founder and CEO of Konnech Inc, the foreign company that fully owns the
Australian subsidiary Konnech Australia, will face the USA justice system and they will determine the
facts of the allegations originating from LA County.
Regardless of the outcomes in the USA, my concerns are with the sovereign capability, security
and procurement of the Queensland election management system, as well as how this firm came to get
a contract over local Australian suppliers and the unknown costs of the Konnech contract. Extremely
serious questions still need to be answered by the Queensland government and ECQ about the
Konnech contract, which involves sensitive software systems used to manage Queensland elections,
particularly the personal data of election workers.
Eugene Yu tried to sue me for raising issues about Konnech and the procurement process,
demanding an apology and compensation last year. I have refused to do so, as I consider the questions
I have been raising about our election system and how it is managed and the procurement process to
award Konnech this contract are more than reasonable and in the public interest. I believe these legal
manoeuvres by Mr Yu are attempts to bully and gag an elected representative. I will continue to demand
greater transparency and accountability as well as security of our election systems so that citizens have
more than just the word of the government to ‘trust them’.
It is on the public record that Konnech’s election management system, which deals with things
such as the data of polling booth workers, was not ready in time for the local government election in
2020 because of problems. The Queensland chief customer and digital officer, Chris Fechner, said in
a written submission to a parliamentary committee—
The delivery of the project was further impacted in the final development and bug fixing stages during January and February
2020, as most of the coding resources were based in Wuhan China and were negatively impacted by the COVID-19 lock-down.
You would not believe it, but it is the truth; it is on the parliamentary record. When the
Attorney-General, Shannon Fentiman, was asked about this issue on 6 October 2022 after the arrest
of Mr Yu in the USA, she said that there was no evidence of a data breach in relation to Queensland
electoral data. I table a transcript of her media interview.
Tabled paper: Document, undated, titled ‘Attorney-General interview—06 October 2022’ 1682.
I believe the Attorney-General needs to provide further clarity that she is talking about all of the
data, not just the electoral roll, because the election management system deals with polling booth
workers. We need to know that it is safe and secure and that there are independent checks on this and
it is not just the word of the government. We need to know how much Konnech has been paid because
it is all commercial-in-confidence. We should know.