The article is lacking in facts.

and found them. FDLE wants to charge him with cybercrimes for exposing how easy it is to hack the voter data base.

That sounds pretty negligent to me.

The hacker was filming a video with a challenger candidate to the local elections office. The challengers campaign was emphasizing the lack of security by the incumbent. Hacker easily got into local elections office computer, and in there was also unencrypted access for the state elections office computer. My local paper said they put this up on YouTube. The incumbent filed a complaint with Sherriffs office, who investigated and declined to file charges. Someone then talked to Florida Dept of Law Enf who did charge the hacker. That's about all my paper had, it's Tampa Bay Times today's edition sec B page 1 if you want to look it up.

TALLAHASSEE 

The young cyber-sleuth says he exposed security lapses on Florida elections websites, but the state says he committed a crime. 

Lets see a Security Flaw in Florida Elections, someone could easily change voting outcome, we cant have people fixing are FIX.

When people hear (typically far-right) politicians extol touch-screen voting or whatever else Frank Luntz told them to call it, this David Levin story is exactly what they should hear.

It seems that is not accepted practice for showing that the system is vulnerable. Telling the emperor he has no clothes is not a good idea. The current Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington was appointed by Jeb Bush. While she may be a responsible public servant the system as it stands could have been hacked by a 12 year old with a tablet sitting in MacDonald's in downtown San Diego. The task and the technology were that basic.

If the voter data systems elsewhere in, say Arizona, New York, or Oklahoma were equally vulnerable to similar attacks just imagine what that could mean in November, or what it has already meant from February through May.

You may wish that it isn't so but some of us in IT have been saying this was bound to happen, indeed has already happened, since 2000 at least. We saw it coming, we saw the evidence but were told no-one would dare, no-one could have the necessary access, the ability or the will.

Guess what? Who's inevitable now, eh?

to furious.

I am so sick of hearing the Bush/Hillary argument that, even though the system is fucked, you still REALLY lost.

Maybe so, but that has nothing to do with the point at hand. Since it is painfully obvious that our election system is vulnerable to manipulation and since neither party shows any interest in taking the simple measures necessary to fix it, it follows that both parties are satisfied with the unlawful manipulation of elections.

Why would that be?

Our current president could have enabled all kinds of review to illustrate this vulnerability and to help generate standards of accuracy and protection. The means to do so is in the hands of the Executive and requires no action from Congress.

All I can say is we told you so in 2000, 2002, 2004 and so-on but you kept saying it couldn't happen. You told us we were wearing tin foil hats too tightly wrapped, and you still are, and you still are in deep denial about it all.

I can only surmise that it suits "someone" with a lot of money to keep it this way and that "someone" has very good friends in Congress, and one must assume the White House, DOJ, many state houses and elsewhere. We know what currency DNC Debbie believes in.

If they have addressed this problem everywhere else in the Democratic world one must ask why it is not even acknowledged here?

It is just what it looks like.

The sheer scale of the electoral exercise is unprecedented. Almost two thirds of India’s 1.3 billion people are eligible to vote – 100 million more than in 2009 – and 96% of these have already been equipped with electoral ID cards.

In nine polling days spread across five weeks, the world’s largest electorate will visit 930,000 polling booths to cast their votes using 1.7 million electronic voting machines.

11 million personnel, including members of the army, will be deployed to assist with the elections, whilst a further 5.5 million civilians will be employed to manage the voting process.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/indias-record-breaking-2014-elections/

What Happened to the Good old USA.

Not.

They should be hiring him and asking him to fix their problem. Instead, shooting the messenger will only cause more nasty folks to do the same, only in secret.

Wow, are they stupid in Florida, or what?