{"id":29307,"date":"2017-09-02T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29307"},"modified":"2017-09-02T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:06:48","slug":"our-insecure-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/02\/our-insecure-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Insecure Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was concerned, before and after the 2016 elections, that the Republican Party had continued their tradition of tampering with our electoral infrastructure.  I dropped it, because I had even less supporting evidence than I had in 2000, 2004, and 2008.  Yesterday, that changed.  Russian hackers may have meddled in 21 states, on behalf of their lackeys, Donald Trump and the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Counties in states like Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia experienced difficulties with their electronic poll books, which made it difficult for registered voters to cast their ballots on Election Day, <\/font><\/font>according to The New York Times<\/a><\/font><\/font>. One of the companies that provided the software used in those books, VR Systems, had been penetrated by Russian hackers several months earlier, although there is no evidence that that incident was connected to the technical issues on Election Day.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, that background along with the other Russian election-related chicanery has caused many cybersecurity experts to feel concerned that meddling occurred in the 21 states whose election systems were under attack by the Russian hackers.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Beyond VR Systems, hackers breached at least two other providers of critical election services well ahead of the 2016 voting, said current and former intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information is classified. The officials would not disclose the names of the companies.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Intelligence officials in January reassured Americans that there was no indication that Russian hackers had altered the vote count on Election Day, the bottom-line outcome. But the assurances stopped there…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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Joy Reid on The Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>, discuss the matter with Susan Greenhalgh from the Verified Voting foundation.<\/font><\/p>\n