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SUSSING OUT THE GEORGIA KERFUFFLE — The Georgia cybersecurity incident has rocketed to the top of the headlines in the final days before the election. Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in a tight gubernatorial race, opened an investigation over the weekend after alleging the Democratic Party of Georgia tried to hack into the state voter registration system — charges that the party and others say are ginned up as a distraction. Kemp’s Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams called it “a witch hunt.”
Now, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has followed suit on its own probe. “The GBI has been requested by the Secretary of State to investigate allegations of…
