Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election?

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Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks

On November 4th, 2018, now-Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced an investigation into his rival Democratic party, accusing the organization of trying to hack the US state's voter registration system.

The accusation, presented without evidence, was greeted skeptically at the time as it came two days before Kemp, then Secretary of State of Georgia, faced voters in a close race with Democrat Stacey Abrams to become the state's next governor.

It was a hard-fought contest, with claims of voter suppression and other irregularities that saw Kemp winning by barely one per cent of votes cast.

On Friday, ProPublica and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) found "no evidence of damage to (the Secretary of State’s office) network or computers, and no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data."

That assessment came from a senior assistant attorney general who recommended in March that the GBI's investigation of the claimed incident be closed.

The article goes on to mention that this isn't the first time Kemp has falsely accused Democrats of interfering with the election process.