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System. cnn obtained e-mails and show a voter alerted the democratic party hot line about potential vu vulnerabilities and asked to evaluate the problem, that expert alerted the secretary of states office. so, kevin, ill bring you in here because it sounds like the voter sound the issue and did exactly what they were supposed to do and turned it over to officials. why is it being seen as a -- >> ill tell you this about voter registration laws in georgia. they are very complex. and i think this g...

Yet another flaw in the election security system twice before he accidentally released the information of 6 million georgians. this was about to happen again. instead of owning up to it, taking responsibility and seeking a way to fix the flaw, he instead decided to blame democrats because he does that. >> now we have to delineate any responses from brian kemps camp from the secretary of state office versus those of his campaign. his campaign saying it was a fourth quarter hail mary pass intercep...

>> no, theres not, jim. but we can explain to you what led the secretary of states office to open up this investigation. it was a series of e-mail communications they received that looked to them like two democratic operatives discussing a plan to try to attack vulnerabilities within the states voter registration database and also included the computer programming script to do so. but as it turns out, there was an e-mail that preceded those that the secretary of states office didnt initially get...

Investigating the states democratic party over where it described as an attempted hack of the states voter registration system on saturday. kemp, the republican nominee for governor, has not provided evidence or said why the democratic party is being investigated so close to the election. >> cnn learned the accusation started when the voter reached out to the democratic party to say he discovered potential vulnerabilities in the registration system. the democrats, including the rival stacey abra...

States office didnt provide us with any evidence to explain why they believe the democratic party was a part of this probe, but we have since obtained a series of e-mails that the secretary of states office tells us led them to launch this investigation and, as it turns out, these communications between two democratic operatives at the secretary of states office got their hands on, discussing vulnerabilities in the states voter registration system and also a computer program that could effectuat...

Very much. panel back with me now. lets start on the georgia race because you already have this strange dynamic here of the -- and its not the first time its happened to have a secretary of state run for state office, and typically the secretary of state oversees the races. here you have one, and where want to ask you, rob, as you look at this, it sounds like what happened here is that a whistleblower, not a whistleblower, a concerned citizen said hey, there may be vulnerabilities in the system....

Democratic party asked to investigate the potential vulnerabilities. they saw it, they were asked to investigate it. its not like democrats were secretly trying to hack into the system which is -- >> the vulnerability is not a plot to attack the system. what youre saying is correct. we see it all the time, right? you have hackers who -- might have hackers who try to find vulnerabilities to protect the system. thats what that sounds like. they were trying to show the secretary of state there was ...

Team. nobody in my administration got indicted. >> as of sunday morning, over 34 million people had voted early in the country. that is 67.8% more than early votes cast in all of 2014. georgia secretary of state brian kemps office is investigating the states democratic party over where it described as an attempted hack of the states voter registration system on saturday. kemp, the republican nominee for governor, has not provided evidence or said why the democratic party is being investigated ...

Online regular statiistration s. the e-mail said was computer programming code. secretary of state received a chain of e-mails from the representative of the expert georgia democratic party asked to evaluate the vulnerabilities. thats it. so they saw it and they asked to investigate it. its not like democrats were secretly trying to hack into the system, which i think -- >> which is how they made it sound. >> discovering the vulnerability is not a plot. >> and turning knit over to -- >> yeah. >>...

The office of georgias secretary of state, brian kemp, is investigating the state democratic party claiming it attempted to hack the voter registration system. e-mails obtained from cnn show a voter reached out to one of the partys volunteer flagging potential vulnerabilities on the online registration system. basically saying, look, theres a problem here. >> the volunteer then forwarded that e-mail to the voter protection director for the democratic party, the right thing to do, but kemps offic...