Fairfax County, Virginia has officially terminated its relationship with the U.S. software company Konnech after it was revealed that the tech firm allegedly stored the data of American poll workers in China.
In an email dated Oct. 6, Fairfax County Office of Elections General Registrar Eric Spicer wrote that as of Oct. 5, the department had “ceased its use of ‘PollChief,’ a [Konnech] software package that stores and manages information on election officers” and that it had asked the County Purchasing Agent to submit a “Notice of Contract Termination” to Konnech to “end the county’s contract with the company.”
In the termination document, election officials demanded that the software company immediately “provide Fairfax County with a copy of all of our election officer data,” “take down all of [the county’s] public facing systems,” and “delete all of [the county’s] customer data.”
“We are exploring alternatives to secure the best
