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b"In advance of Tuesday's highly contested U.S. House Special Election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District -- the most expensive House race in U.S. history -- Politico Magazine's Kim Zetter reports that gigabytes of unsecured data, including passwords for e-voting system central tabulators and voter registration information, were kept on an unsecured web server at Kennesaw State University's Center for Elections. The Center, long cited as a model for election administration by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, is responsible for security and programming of every 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting system, computerized central tabulator, and electronic pollbook used in the state of Georgia. The unsecured data, according to Zetter, was discovered prior to last year's President Election and reported to Kennesaw, but was still available online for download without a password as of March 1st this year, during the run-up to the Primary election in the GA-06 race. The data may, in fact, have been available there for years, even as Kennesaw's Executive Director Merle King reportedly failed to inform GA Sec. of State Brian Kemp about the breach last year, and as former GA Sec. of State Karen Handel (the Republican House candidate in the very tight GA-06 race against Democrat Jon Ossoff), appears to have blocked a security analysis of Kennesaw years earlier during her term as Sec. of State. When the results of the House contest are announced on Tuesday night -- whichever party's candidate is declared the winner -- it will be impossible to know if even one vote cast on GA's 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems was recorded as per any voter's intent. The vulnerability in GA's voting and tabulation systems has been known for years. The fact that the security at Kennesaw's Center for Election is even worse than imagined is both new and absolutely chilling. Beyond that nightmarish report today, we also cover two different fatal attacks on Muslims over the past 24 hours, one in London and one in Virginia (and Donald Trump's failure to comment on either of them); so-far-successful attempt by Senate Republicans to keep their replacement plan for Obamacare a complete secret from Democrats and the public in advance of a possible floor vote on the controversial legislation before the July 4th recess; and the U.S. shoots down a Syrian bomber over Syria in violation of international law and without any authorization (or complaint or debate) from Congressional Republicans or Democrats alike, even as the shoot-down has drawn the wrath and potential targeting of U.S. aircraft over Syria by its ally Russia..."