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Attempted breach of Ohio county election network draws FBI and state scrutiny
By Amy Gardner, Emma Brown and Devlin Barrett at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attempted-breach-ohio-election/2021/11/19/12417a4c-488c-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.html?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert&wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNTk2ZmY3NGM5YmJjMGY1N2ZlZjc3NjQwIiwidGFnIjoid3BfbmV3c19hbGVydF9yZXZlcmUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvYXR0ZW1wdGVkLWJyZWFjaC1vaGlvLWVsZWN0aW9uLzIwMjEvMTEvMTkvMTI0MTdhNGMtNDg4Yy0xMWVjLWI4ZDktMjMyZjRhZmU0ZDliX3N0b3J5Lmh0bWw_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1hbGVydCZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj13cF9uZXdzX2FsZXJ0X3JldmVyZSZsb2NhdGlvbj1hbGVydCZ3cG1rPTEmd3Bpc3JjPWFsX25ld3NfX2FsZXJ0LXBvbGl0aWNzLS1hbGVydC1uYXRpb25hbCJ9.Yq0Y0wZHVHUR6rMsI0uV1763ARvC-CKJcIQPaaI2Qzo
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Federal and state investigators are examining an attempt to breach an Ohio countys election network that bears striking similarities to an incident in Colorado earlier this year, when government officials helped an outsider gain access to the county voting system in an effort to find fraud.
Data obtained in both instances were distributed at an August cyber symposium on election fraud hosted by MyPillow executive Mike Lindell, an ally of former president Donald Trump who has spent millions of dollars promoting false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
The attempted breach in Ohio occurred on May 4 inside the county office of John Hamercheck (R), chairman of the Lake County Board of Commissioners, according to two individuals with knowledge of the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigations. State and county officials said no sensitive data were obtained, but they determined that a private laptop was plugged into the county network in Hamerchecks office, and that the routine network traffic captured by the computer was circulated at the same Lindell conference as the data from the Colorado breach.
Together, the incidents in Ohio and Colorado point to an escalation in attacks on the nations voting systems by those who have embraced Trumps false claims that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. Now, some Trump loyalists pushing for legal challenges and partisan audits are also targeting local officials in a bid to gain access to election systems moves that themselves could undermine election security.
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MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)How can we get a handle on this?
Perhaps security cameras (with audio) and nab these haters of Democracy.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Of election equipment and of absentee ballots when elections are going.
Who knows how many Democratic ballots ended up in a ditch or someone's trunk in 2020 in some of these Republican-controlled counties.