Georgia Elections Supply Website Hosting Company Hacked in Days Prior to Election

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The host of the website the state of Georgia uses to order election supplies was hacked in the weeks before Election Day.

Local election officials use the site, the Georgia Elections Supply Store, to order blank absentee ballots, ballot envelopes, oath envelopes, applications for voter registration and signs for ballot drop boxes, among other supplies.

The site is password protected.

The website’s hosting company, Canadian-based Shopify, announced on Sept. 22 that two employees hacked the data of some of its 200 members. The FBI was notified at the time.

Shopify did not immediately comment on whether the Georgia Elections Supply store was one of the accounts hacked.

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