Highly Suspicious: Ukraine Computer Involved In Tennessee Elections Attack

[kpete]

Investigators found evidence of a “malicious intrusion” into a Tennessee county’s elections website from a computer in Ukraine during a concerted cyberattack, which likely caused the site to crash just as it was reporting vote totals in this month’s primary.

Cyber-security experts hired by Knox County to analyze the so-called “denial of service” cyberattack, said Friday that “a suspiciously large number of foreign countries” accessed the site as votes were being reported on May 1.

That intense activity was among the likely causes of the crash, according to the report by Sword & Shield Enterprise Security.

“Given the circumstantial evidence_especially the simultaneous proven malicious intrusion from a Ukraine IP address_I think it is reasonable to at least hypothesize that it was an intended event,” David Ball, the county’s deputy director of information technology, added in an email to The Associated Press.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ukraine-computer-involved-tennessee-elections-attack

[KPN]

1. Just get rid of electronic voting machines! Geezuz!

[pangaia]

3. And trump is getting rid of the cyber-security head or whatever it is...

[HopeAgain]

2. And Congress is sitting on their hands...

Problem, what problem?

[shraby]

4. If they can interfere with the voting reports, they can interfere with the vote totals themselves.

[triron]

6. yeah, they did already.

[AlexSFCA]

5. trump is counting on fraud

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread kpete

[moriah]

8. If machines are used, people have to back them up.

I have worked in elections as a poll worker, and our machines weren't connected to the Internet. We verified their totals (our machines also have paper audit trails and I showed everyone how what they put in should print out right in front of them, and if the wrong thing printed to tell us) for our precinct, and brought the vote to the courthouse.

We were to stay until our paper tally for our precinct, what the non-network connected machines said, was written on the board by the people reading the electronic cards from the machines, and photograph it written correctly. I waited until every precinct manager had done that, then photographed the board for our county.

Why a machine was on the open Internet while tabulating votes, however, needs to be investigated thoroughly.

[questionseverything]

9. from the article

Knox County uses Hart InterCivic’s eSlate electronic voting machines, which do not create a paper record of the votes.

......no paper record, nothing to count equals a "result" spun out of whatever the best hacker wants it to be


more from the article...

County officials said no voting data was affected, but the site was down for an hour after the polls closed, causing confusion before technicians fixed the problem.


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how in the holy hell does anyone KNOW IF TOTALS WERE AFFECTED?

answer..they don't