SOURCE: MARKTWATCH The Russian government successfully hacked into the voter rolls in a small number of US states during the run-up to the 2016 election, it was revealed on Wednesday. Jeanette Manfra, the Homeland Security official tasked with securing the system from hackers, told NBC News that a total of 21 states were targeted and “an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.” Jeh Johnson, who headed the department in 2016, said “it’s incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again.” NBC reported in September 2016 that more than 20 states were targeted by Russians. Wednesday’s admission by Manfra, who is the head of cybersecurity at DHS, was the first admission that voting rolls had actually been penetrated. U.S. officials told NBC that there is no evidence that any of the rolls were altered. It was not clear which state rolls had been hacked into. Russia’s efforts to hack the 2016 presidential election were much more widespread than originally thought. The Russian campaign hit 39 states — twice as many as originally reported — and in one case hackers tried to delete and alter voter data.
“an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated.” of 21? So.. 1, 2 ? WTF? Given the election was swung by an exceptionally small number of votes in three? states? No evidence.. in the GOP brain means did not happen, in reality look harder because after going to all the effort and successfully penetrating some.. hard to believe they did nothing.
1st they tell us no hack happened, now they confirm a hack occurred but the Russians did nothing after the fact? I suppose, what do you do with the rolls, other than target audiences with misinformation?
Lets see.. I'm a Russian and I'm on the database.. delete anyone registered with the first name: DeShawn, DeAndre, Marquis, Darnell, Terrell, Malik, Trevon, Tyrone... then start with the Gomez, Suarez family surnames... Yep, hard to knock out a few tens of thousands of non-Trump voters.
The rolls aren't the "booths" though.... It's merely databases of registered voters is my understanding
I expect so only half serious, it might be possible to interfere with existing registrations blocking a % of voters on technical problems with details not matching ID but who knows. I used to be in IT so I know the various angles into a system, many are simple but are for practical purposes hopeless in the field however before, during and after votes are cast there are opportunities to change or suppress. A large number of errors in people's IDs etc should be noticed but after they vote anything can be done. I recall in Ireland in the early naughties they discovered that the US source voting machines were easily hacked then the Dutch supplied ones. At defcon last year they had some fun:
Exactly, this sliding scale of what happened is ridiculous. Russia tried but it didn't work. Oh wait Russia hacked a campaign office, but nothing important. Oh wait they penetrated everything in the DNC and RNC and retrieved several hundred thousand emails, but the voting was secure. Oh wait they tried to hack 39 state voting systems but nothing was compromised. And now the news comes out that a "small number of states were penetrated," specifically the voter registration rolls. Now read this NYT article about how a bunch of people in swing counties had their registrations fucked with somehow, and how nobody is investigating it
Well, according to what I've read, nothing was altered. In this case, you could make the argument that they were providing a public service (penetration testing). https://www.marketwatch.com/story/r...ed-us-voter-rolls-in-2016-dhs-says-2018-02-07
Except in the case of voter fraud as the GOP defines it, of course, in which case it DID happen according to the GOP even though actual investigations did not uncover sufficient evidence to support such a conclusion. It's all in the narrative. First you start with a conclusion, and then you either find or fabricate evidence to support it. Extra points for creativity.