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I thought your comment was a joke until I read the link. Wow

"District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."

They had a software development subsidiary with a testing server / database in China that apparently received some actual poll-worker PII.

Why did a company with 20 employees have a subsidiary with a server in China?

Well either cheap labor or spies which do you think is more likely with the current evidence