After news broke last week that the CEO of the elections software company Konnech was arrested by the Los Angeles County district attorney on suspicion of theft of personal information charges, municipalities across the country have ended their contract with the firm.
But oddly, DeKalb County, Georgia, has decided to keep its relationship with Konnech. In a 3-2 party-line vote on Monday, the DeKalb County Elections Board voted to maintain its contract with Konnech — on the condition that poll worker data be hosted on the county’s servers instead.
DeKalb signed a one-year contract for Konnech’s PollChief software just last month. PollChief provides an online portal that allows election staff to manage, train, and pay poll workers. Poll workers must set up an account on the portal to gain access to training. That means Konnech has access to poll workers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, financials, and passwords on their
