DHS Backlog Of State Election Systems Checkups Looms Over Midterms

[deminks]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-backlog-state-election-systems-security-reviews

With the midterm congressional primaries about to go into full swing, the Department of Homeland Security is playing catch-up in helping to ensure that state election systems are secure against cybertampering by the Russians or others bent on mischief.

The department said it has completed on-site risk assessments of election systems in just nine of 17 states that have formally requested them so far. It has pledged to do so by November for every state that asks.

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But a local election in Tennessee last week highlights the concern: Knox County has hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate why a website that reports election results crashed after the polls closed.

The county’s technology director said some of the unusually heavy traffic came from overseas servers. DHS spokesman Scott McConnell said there is no indication so far that the outage was caused by a “malicious actor.”

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Why do I not believe anything DHS tells me?

'Oh, it'll be ok because each state has their own system.'
'We haven't really checked, but everyone says the Russians didn't manipulate the votes.'
'They got into the voter rolls of 8, no 16, no 28 states but we don't know what they did with the data.'