EDITORIAL: Time for Gorbea to Answer Questions About Non-Secure Email Election Voting
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Nellie Gorbea has never been shy about media coverage.
She has never met a microphone or a camera she did not love until now.
If a reporter were to stop short she would be sure to crash into the back of them.
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But a GoLocal investigation into the 2020 election has found that hundreds or more of out-of-the-country and military ballots were cast via non-secure email.
It does not appear that this has anything to do with partisan politics, but the lack of care, professionalism and coordination between Gorbea's office and the Rhode Island Board of Elections is becoming concerning.
It appears that ballots were cast not by a secure or encrypted system, but simply by making them as an attachment to any email account from Hotmail to Gmail.
These were emailed in from all parts of the world.
The Secretary of State’s office has given so many answers to questions and concerns of these ballots, that the responses are confusing and inconsistent at best.
Add in the letters Gorbea has sent to the Rhode Island General Assembly that are contradictory to her office's responses and there is an emerging lack of credibility emanating out of her office. She has repeatedly opposed email voting for the Rhode Island disabled community.
The affable Gorbea has announced that she is a candidate for Governor and if she is going to be credible then she needs to be able to answer real questions about real issues and there is no bigger an issue than the security of an election.
Allowing votes from foreign countries via Yahoo email accounts doesn’t pass a laugh test.
Fluff and puff ’n stuff is not going to be sufficient. Nearly every day she issues a press release about the historical napkin ring or some other similar announcement.
Madam Secretary, it is time to schedule an interview with GoLocal and answer questions about these issues.
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