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On Wednesday, December 6, the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) imposed civil fines against six voters who voted twice in the 2020 General Election. The six voters received fines ranging from $100 to $500. Two additional voters had their hearings continued for further investigation.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) provides the following update on the voter data breach: On Friday, October 20, during a daily morning check-in call with DataNet Systems, DCBOE learned that: • DataNet Systems’ breached database server did contain a copy of the DCBOE’s voter roll. • DataNet Systems confirmed that bad actors MAY have had access to the full voter roll which includes personal identifiable information (PII) including partial social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, and contact information such as phone numbers and email addresses. • DataNet Systems could not pinpoint if or when this file may have been accessed or how many, if any, voter records were accessed.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) provides the following update on the voter data breach: CBOE continues to work with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MSISAC)’s Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) on a forensic analysis of the data set. So far, this analysis has found that the data breach contains fewer than 4,000 voter records.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) provides the following update on the voter data breach that occurred last week: • DCBOE has confirmed that some DC voter information was accessed through a breach of DataNet Systems’ web server. No internal DCBOE databases or servers were directly compromised. DCBOE continues to monitor internal databases/servers and conduct network vulnerability scans to ensure the safety of DC voter data.

On October 5, 2023, the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) became aware that a hacking group known as RansomVC claimed to have breached DCBOE’s records and accessed 600,000 lines of US voter data, including DC voter records.

On September 19, 2023, the District of Columbia Board of Elections will celebrate National Voter Registration Day by hosting voter registration drives at five locations across the District of Columbia.

In its continued effort to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the voter roll, the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) today published a list of 65,628 inactive voter records.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections announces that its next Regular Meeting, originally scheduled for Wednesday, August 2, 2023, will now be held on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

The District of Columbia Board of Elections is announcing the results of recounts conducted for two Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) contests on the November 8, 2022 General Election ballot, Single Member District (SMD) 5A06 and SMD 7C05.

Public Hearing, “Elissa for DC v. D.C. Office of Campaign Finance” will resume today, Monday 12, 2022 at 1:00pm