{"id":1703189,"date":"2022-10-20T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703189"},"modified":"2022-10-20T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T12:34:06","slug":"scandal-plagued-election-software-company-konnech-has-significant-chinese-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scandal-plagued-election-software-company-konnech-has-significant-chinese-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal-plagued Election Software Company Konnech Has Significant Chinese Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscandal-plagued-election-software-company-konnech-has-significant-chinese-links%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Michigan-based election software company Konnech filed a defamation lawsuit against the Texas-based group True the Vote in September. True the Vote had <a href=\"https:\/\/texas.votebeat.org\/2022\/9\/14\/23353874\/true-the-vote-konnech-lawsuit-catherine-englebrecht-gregg-phillips-tiger-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> the company of being both &#8220;owned by the Chinese Communist Party&#8221; and involved in &#8220;subversion of our elections.&#8221; Konnech <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.txsd.1888133\/gov.uscourts.txsd.1888133.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied<\/a> the allegations, though its credibility is now in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>On October 4, Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, who lived in China until 1986, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/new-york-times-ceo-election-software-company\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> on suspicion of data theft, having allegedly stored &#8220;critical information that [U.S. election] workers provided on servers in China.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Eric Neff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/10\/14\/1129172979\/election-software-ceo-is-charged-with-allegedly-giving-chinese-contractors-data-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> that the crimes allegedly committed by Konnech and Yu amounted to the &#8220;largest data breach in United States history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yu was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/ceo-of-konnech-the-china-linked-software-company-allegedly-behind-largest-data-breach-in-united-states-history-hit-with-another-criminal-charge\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">charged again last week<\/a> for grand theft by embezzlement of funds exceeding $2.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Yu&#8217;s arrest and the recent charges claiming his company stored sensitive American data on servers under the &#8220;superadministration&#8221; of Chinese contractors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/stormy-seas-chinese-dictator-calls-for-military-build-up-threatens-all-measures-necessary-to-take-taiwan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">a hostile nation<\/a>, Konnech&#8217;s alleged connections to Chinese election firms have also come under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/kanekoa.substack.com\/p\/konnechs-shocking-back-door-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigative report<\/a> \u2014 part of an ongoing series of deep dives by Kanekoa News on Substack \u2014 detailed the links between a purportedly defunct Chinese-based Konnech subsidiary and major CCP-controlled telecoms designated as &#8220;national security threats&#8221; by the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;China&#8217;s national conditions&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23131926\/yu-complaint-101322.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criminal complaint<\/a> filed by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n&#8217;s office on October 13 claimed that from October 10, 2019, through October 4, 2022, Yu and other employees at Konnech were providing election software solutions to Los Angeles County &#8220;using third-party contractors based in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luis Nabergoi, project manager for Konnech&#8217;s contract with Los Angeles County, confirmed on August 18 that &#8220;any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had &#8216;superadministration&#8217; privileges for all PollChief clients,&#8221; which constituted a &#8220;huge security issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kanekoa.substack.com\/p\/konnechs-shocking-back-door-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanekoa<\/a> pointed out that while prosecutors referenced &#8220;Chinese contractors&#8221; and &#8220;third-party software developers,&#8221; they did not mention Konnech&#8217;s Chinese subsidiary. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/03\/technology\/konnech-election-conspiracy-theories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that &#8220;Konnech once owned Jinhua Yulian Network Technology, a subsidiary out of China, where programmers developed and tested software.&#8221; Konnech reportedly &#8220;closed the subsidiary in 2021 and no longer has employees in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yu reportedly created Jinhua Yulian Network Technology on November 29, 2005. The Konnech CEO registered the subsidiary&#8217;s website &#8220;yu-lian.cn&#8221; to eyu@konnech.com on in February 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its characterization by Konnech and the New York Times as a subsidiary just testing software with &#8220;dummy data,&#8221; the Jinhua Yulian Network Technology &#8220;About Us&#8221; page, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131207141349\/http:\/\/yu-lian.cn\/ContactUs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archived December 7, 2013<\/a>, tells a different story. <\/p>\n<p>Its website (yu-lian.cn) stated Jinhua Yulian Software &#8220;has been focusing on providing election management software and election consulting services in line with China&#8217;s national conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Kanekoa, Jinhua Yulian Network Technology bid on Chinese communist government contracts to provide &#8220;electronic voting systems&#8221; as recently as 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Kanekoa reported that Konnech&#8217;s Chinese connections did not end there. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.unifiedpatents.com\/patents\/patent\/CN-104618378-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patent transfers<\/a>, employee profiles, and domain registrations divulge that Konnech is also profoundly connected to another Chinese software firm named Jinhua Hongzheng Technology,&#8221; which has partnered with numerous Chinese telecom giants with state ties, including Huawei, China Telecom,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan-based election software company Konnech filed a defamation lawsuit against the Texas-based group True the Vote in September. True the Vote had accused the company of being both &#8220;owned by the Chinese Communist Party&#8221; and involved in &#8220;subversion of our elections.&#8221; Konnech denied the allegations, though its credibility is now in doubt. On October &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}