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The office of Brian Kemp, who is also the Republican candidate for governor, said in a Sunday morning news release that they will investigate the Georgia Democratic Party as part of its probe, but did not offer any details on why it is investigating the Democratic party.
“While we cannot comment on the specifics of an ongoing investigation, I can confirm that the Democratic Party of Georgia is under investigation for possible cyber crimes,” said press secretary Candice Broce in the release. “We can also confirm that no personal data was breached and our system remains secure.”
The Georgia Democratic Party said in a statement Sunday that the “scurrilous claims are 100 percent false” and called the investigation “another example of abuse of power” by Kemp.
“This political stunt from Kemp just days before the election is yet another example of why he cannot be trusted and should not be overseeing an election in which he is also a candidate for governor,” the state party’s executive director, Rebecca DeHart, said in a statement.
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the investigation was an attempt to distract voters two days before the election.
“I’ve heard nothing about it, and my reaction would be that this is a desperate attempt on the part of my opponent to distract people from the fact that two different federal judges found him derelict in his duties and have forced him to accept absentee ballots to be counted and those who are being held captive by the exact match system to be allowed to vote,” Abrams said.
“He is desperate to turn the conversation away from his failures, from his refusal to honor his commitments and from the fact that he’s part of a nationwide system of voter suppression that will not work in this election because we’re going to outwork him, we’re going to out vote him and we’re going to win,” she said.
Broce said the secretary of state’s office immediately alerted both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
CNN has reached out to Kemp’s campaign, as well as DHS and the FBI, for comment.
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