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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Is Your County Elections Clerk Ready for Russian Hackers?

The head of every U.S. intelligence agency says Russia attempted to penetrate elections systems nationwide during the 2016 presidential election, and will try again during this year’s midterm elections.

In a decentralized election system with more than 10,000 separate jurisdictions, the onus for security is on local officials.

“That keeps me awake at night,” said Nancy Blankenship, the clerk for Deschutes County, Oregon.

Blankenship, like thousands of other county clerks, is the chief elections official for her area. It’s not so much the threat of foreign hackers changing votes that concerns Blankenship — Oregon is not only a vote-by-mail state, but also does its ballot counting without an internet connection — it’s the possibility that hacking could undermine public confidence in the system.

There are three major local cybersecurity threats during elections, said Maurice Turner, a senior technologist at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.C.:

Hackers could break into statewide, online voter registration databases to either steal personal information or change names, addresses or party affiliation to create confusion and discourage participation on Election Day.

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10 comments:

  1. Better be more concerned with Jake day and his band of thieves

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  2. Russia could not care less.How that myth got started is any Democrats guess.

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  3. are we using the Soros machines this year??? they will flip your votes.

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  4. I have't any evidence of Russian hacking, When the DNC emails were released during the election the hacking was traced back to the DNC and then Seth Rich was murdered then they blamed Russia after the election.

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  5. Obama KNEW in 2014 about the hacking and to Trump to stop whining about it in 2016 ?

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  6. Since the machines aren't online, I got my doubts on a Russian operative being sent here to hack them locally.

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  7. I'm more concerned with Jim Ireton's gang (including Chuck Cook, who has no scruples whatever) futzing with the votes.

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  8. Impossible to hack paper ballots.
    Just saying' . . .

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  9. You guys have paper ballots because a couple local guys got together and showed a bunch of clueless people how easy it was.

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  10. Are you talking about the Democrat Russians or the real ones??

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