Politico: Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked?

[Virginiá]

The state’s voting systems are uniquely vulnerable, security researchers say—and the state has ignored efforts to fix the problem.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/will-the-georgia-special-election-get-hacked-215255

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Part of Karen Handel's job as SoS was to prevent issues like this, and she completely botched that. In fact, botched may be the wrong word - she seemingly abdicated her responsibility and didn't do anything.

Why is Georgia so resistant to securing their election servers/machines? For all the talk the GOP does about "election integrity" and voter fraud, you'd think this would be one of the first things they address, and yet here we are, with servers so badly configured that anyone could have, and ended up actually downloading all their voting machine / voter registration files off their unprotected server.

This is why the federal government needs to start stepping in with states that refuse to (or prove themselves incapable of) handling election security.

[TheSaint250]

I feel like just writing this article made a hacking much more likely

[publicunofficial]

What a rag.

[Rookie Yinzer]

What a rag.

[Inmate Trump]

I don't see how we can ever truly trust election results again.

[krazen1211]

The only people who would hack the election in this district are Dems. The GOP can simply gerrymander the district. Very effective!

[GeorgiaModerate]

I don't see how we can ever truly trust election results again.

I hate to be anti-technology here, but we need to go back to a system that can't be hacked, such as purely mechanical voting machines or even paper ballots. 

[Inmate Trump]

The only people who would hack the election in this district are Dems. The GOP can simply gerrymander the district. Very effective!

Not really.

Maybe before Trump became prez, but the polls have been either tied or lean Dem. The polls were the same between Hillary and Trump, and we saw how that turned out.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I don't see how we can ever truly trust election results again.

I hate to be anti-technology here, but we need to go back to a system that can't be hacked, such as purely mechanical voting machines or even paper ballots. 

High tech isn't always better. Paper ballots, with good oversight and chain of custody rules will serve just fine for everything except feeding those impatient for news.

[Beet]

State officials are the most computer illiterate people on the planet. We need paper ballots now.

[HAnnA MArin County]

The only people who would hack the election in this district are Dems. The GOP can simply gerrymander the district. Very effective!

Is this person on meds?

[Horus]

One of several reasons why I still think Handel will win. I have to agree with Clay, we just can't trust election results anymore.

[Person Man]

One of several reasons why I still think Handel will win. I have to agree with Clay, we just can't trust election results anymore.

Everything is rigged? Wasn't that the narrative after 00/02/04?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Russia better not f#ck with Georgia again.

[RI]

lol. There is zero evidence vote totals have ever been intentionally changed.

[Inmate Trump]

One of several reasons why I still think Handel will win. I have to agree with Clay, we just can't trust election results anymore.

Everything is rigged? Wasn't that the narrative after 00/02/04?

Yea, but now we know for sure that it's rigged. Before now, it was just a talking point.

[Virginiá]

I do think the title is a little provocative, given it's entirely based on vulnerability and not any credible threat. The point is that Georgia's elections are very much vulnerable to tampering that could not be easily detected, and that the GA government has shown a strange resistance to actually fixing the problems with their systems.

Under normal circumstances, one would probably expect the party that is constantly screaming about 'election integrity' to actually try and hold secure elections, not resist even the most simple precautions.

[Person Man]

One of several reasons why I still think Handel will win. I have to agree with Clay, we just can't trust election results anymore.

Everything is rigged? Wasn't that the narrative after 00/02/04?

Yea, but now we know for sure that it's rigged. Before now, it was just a talking point.

I mean, if the regime stays contraversial and unpopular and never loses any close or important contests between now and 21/22, I will start to believe it. Last time, we had to deal with DIEBOLD...maybe the altRight and the FSB are totally different animals but what can we do if we know that there has already been a coup? At this point, its more than worth hoping things will be fixed like there were last time.