elections alberta

During the hearing, the court heard details of the Elections Alberta investigation into the database breach. The investigation hinged on something called "salted names," according to lawyers. Each electoral list released by Elections Alberta contained fictitious entries or false names. These allow investigators to trace each list back to its source in the event of a breach or contravention of access laws. Using a specialized program to probe the database, senior investigators allegedly determined that the list published on the database was the one legitimately given to the Republican Party of