Stealing the Election in Georgia
First off, we have a real f-ing problem. Georgia’s special election is not at all secure.
Georgia’s aging election system has flaws that could be exploited if a malicious hacker ever breached it, experts say. It’s a fear that has escalated with regular news reports about alleged attempts by Russian hackers to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, an issue raised again last week by the release of a leaked National Security Agency document.
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A cybersecurity researcher named Logan Lamb tried to test the state’s election security by investigating Georgia’s Kennesaw State University Center for Elections Systems, which tests and programs the entire state’s voting machines. Lamb wrote an automated script for their website.
What he got was 15 gigabytes of a Russian hacker’s wet dream:
Within the mother lode Lamb found on the center’s website was a database containing registration records for the state’s 6.7 million voters; multiple PDFs with instructions and passwords for election workers to sign in to a central server on Election Day; and software files for the state’s ExpressPoll pollbooks — electronic devices used by pollworkers to verify that a voter is registered before allowing them to cast a ballot. There also appeared to be databases for the so-called GEMS servers. These Global Election Management Systems are used to prepare paper and electronic ballots, tabulate votes and produce summaries of vote totals.
The files were supposed to be behind a password-protected firewall, but the center had misconfigured its server so they were accessible to anyone, according to Lamb.
Lamb did this on his freaking lunch break at work, just to see how easy it would be. It was. Now, what the hell do you think hackers paid by the Kremlin have been doing all this time?
More: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/15/1671580/-Stealing-the-Election-in-Georgia
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Or should I say "restoring this democracy?!"
Houston, we have a problem.
Yes we most certainly do.
IF the ruskies can do what they did in 39 states to disenfranchise Dem voters, who knows what they'll be able to do in all 50 states--even in Blue states like California--if they can start fooling around within the very vulnerable voting software we know about 
And who knows if they didn't in 2016, because it seems as if every month, some new credible article comes out stating something like "Russian interference into our 2016 GE was far wider than we thought or imagined."
Not a peep from the main stream media.
