FBI director: Hackers 'poking around' voter systems

[molova]

Source: CNN

The FBI director is telling states to make sure they are on top of their voter registration systems, saying would-be hackers are "poking around."
While James Comey testified Wednesday to Congress that there haven't been any additional successful hacks, there have been scans and attempts that indicate "bad actors" are trying to see where they can get in.

"There have been a variety of scanning activities, which is a preamble for potential intrusion activities as well as some attempted intrusions at voter database registrations beyond those we knew about in July and August," Comey told a House committee during an FBI oversight hearing.
Comey was being asked about a warning the FBI sent to states in June, and two successful intrusions into voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/fbi-james-comey-election-cyberattacks/index.html

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Keep an eye on Putin.

[Foggyhill]

1. And that POS Trump is inviting this.

Clinton should pound him on this relentlessly, she's being too nice on this.
This is abominable that this Russian sockpuppet is allowed to thrive.

[exboyfil]

2. Touchscreen voting

with no paper trail.

Such a great idea.


Should have gone with optical scan with ballots audited against vote totals.

[Igel]

8. Key word: "registration"

Voter registration systems.

[Crash2Parties]

9. If only our laws valued each person's vote security as much as they do their checkout transactions..

It's really not difficult to require, build, test, buy and implement voting systems that are secure and can pass a audit. We do it every day in other situations. Instead we've decided the free market is the best way to run our elections...or worse, in a not insignificant number of states mandated known insecure systems.

[Helen Borg]

3. Well well...

"James Comey testified Wednesday to Congress that there haven't been any additional successful hacks"

But the truly successful ones would not get detected, right? The problem is that if there is doubt...

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. I still don't think they have come up with a way to hack a paper ballot.

I could be wrong...

[hedda_foil]

10. They may not be able to hack the paper but they can hack the compiling and consolidating of the vote

[Kingofalldems]

5. Arrest Trump. Lock him up.

[Yo_Mama]

6. Well, it is more likely that they are looking for ID theft purposes than

because they want to disrupt the election. The information contained in those databases may be very useful to certain cyber-criminals.

[groundloop]

7. Possibly.... but imagine if thousands of Democratic voter registrations just disappeared

I'm betting a large number of people, if faced with the prospect of needing to jump through the hoops of trying to prove that they're registered, would simply say to hell with it and not cast a ballot.