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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Dec 29, 2017, 09:56 AM Dec 2017

Report: 2018 Midterm Elections May Be Left Wide Open to Hacking

Source: The Daily Beast

As the federal government struggles to safeguard state voting systems from hackers in the run-up to 2018 midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security admits that some are facing a nine-month wait for what’s considered to be the most extensive—and necessary—security screening, Politico reports. As a result, some states election systems are in danger of missing the critical service before the November elections and local officials may not be aware of their vulnerabilities, including to foreign intelligence agencies or homegrown cyberattacks—until it’s too late. DHS has said that Russian hackers targeted some election systems in at least 21 states in 2016. DHS officials concede that the nine-month wait is “not a good metric.”

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Report: 2018 Midterm Elections May Be Left Wide Open to Hacking (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP

Republicans want the elections to be hacked! PragmaticDem Dec 2017 #1

Easy way to prevent hacking is GO PAPER AND PEN. shraby Dec 2017 #2

Baffling why the Dems are not shouting this from the rooftops! LiberalLovinLug Dec 2017 #8

one possibility: some tried before and the media ignored it yurbud Dec 2017 #9

True but shouting from the rooftops and a couple of congress people asking in congress.. LiberalLovinLug Dec 2017 #11

that fit a narrative the media wanted to tell yurbud Dec 2017 #12

revert back to paper ballots onetexan Dec 2017 #3

The U.S. does not have a secure voting system. Irish_Dem Dec 2017 #4

Ya think? Its been left wide open since early 2000s at least nm Kashkakat v.2.0 Dec 2017 #5

The Donald does not want his master Putin locked out. keithbvadu2 Dec 2017 #6

It's a feature, not a bug. tanyev Dec 2017 #7

Kick dalton99a Dec 2017 #10

PragmaticDem

(320 posts)

1. Republicans want the elections to be hacked!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 09:57 AM

Dec 2017

shraby

(21,946 posts)

2. Easy way to prevent hacking is GO PAPER AND PEN.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 10:00 AM

Dec 2017

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)

8. Baffling why the Dems are not shouting this from the rooftops!

Reply to shraby (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 08:27 PM

Dec 2017

yurbud

(39,405 posts)

9. one possibility: some tried before and the media ignored it

Reply to LiberalLovinLug (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 08:44 PM

Dec 2017

It is possible that even if party leadership made noise about it, MSM would not cover it.

But the added layer of the New Cold War makes it either makes it simple enough to sell or benefits more than it harms their owners, so they allow it to make it to air.

Before the Iraq War, I wondered why certain, painfully obvious questions weren't asked by Congress, but it turned out a couple congressmen HAD asked them--the MSM just hadn't covered them at all.

I had to scrounge around in the congressional record quite a while to find them.