Wow-Hackers tried to penetrate South Carolina's voter-registration system 150,000 times-Election Day

[kpete]

Link to tweet

https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-may-prove-a-microcosm-of-u-s-election-hacking-efforts-1500202806

[dalton99a]

1. 400-lb guy with very fast fingers sitting on their bed

[tech3149]

2. Here's an idea

Don't just take the whole electoral process "off the grid" but put it out there for all the public to observe and understand. Any of us who have been concerned and vocal about election integrity since 2000 have been screaming about a serious rethink but no dominant media wanted to talk about it.
Democrats have religiously avoided the problems of the electoral anomalies of the past 17 years on the basis that it would discourage the electorate from being involved.
Well guess what, if you don't point out the problem or offer a solution you will always be the ineffective opposition.
How does it feel being the Washington Generals?

[Amaryllis]

13. +1,000,000

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article157039299.html
Hundreds if not thousands more such articles since 2000.

[Zoonart]

3. But no one tampered with vote totals...

RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

[YCHDT]

4. +1

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. Shhhhhh.....

They don't want you to talk about that. It undermines the entire political system if people actually were to realize their vote is pointless and can be changed at the whim of some higher power.

Remember, the powers that be MUST maintain the air of Democracy and legitimacy of the election process and vote tabulation.

[LiberalArkie]

6. I remember way back when I was a teen. My dad was a Republican in the south. Hence a liberal.

Like any towns back in the 60's there were black precincts and white precincts. Not like now where everything is equal. The blacks wanted a certain candidate for sheriff and the redneck Democrats wanted the current guy who was know to kill and send to county road crew anyone not white.

Well it was known that the black precinct would vote for the new guy. But com Election Day and ballot were counted at the court house the new guy did not have a ballot any where cast for him.

American Democracy at its finest.

[mythology]

8. Voter registration isn't the same as vote counting

[Amaryllis]

14. That is not a valid argument. You can't count their votes if they were prevented

from voting in the first place, so you don't have to change the vote totals to affect the results.

[Amaryllis]

15. Election Results Officially Look Invalid After Voting Machine Hack Confirmed Across 39 States

http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/06/24/just-trump-election-phony-voting-machine-hack-confirmed-across-39-states/

[DK504]

7. Yeah, he still "won" despite losing by 10 million votes.

The fact remains we, our fundamental right, one of the few things we can do without an armed revolution, our democracy was attacked. This was a digital act of war. This isn't just a story, it is a fact and I want to know what those traitors in DC are doing to lock down our voting system. We don't need "patches" to "fix" they system, we need a completely different system that can not be breached.

A presidential election is now so vital to our freedoms, civil rights and ability to even squeak out a living must now become a federal, not a state, run process that can not be breached. Has this happened before, we know that votes can and have been flipped, now, now is the time to fight and refuse compromise on the mealy mouth no chin bullshiters that have subverted our future.

[mythology]

9. You "know" that votes were flipped just like Trump "knows" he actually won the popular vote

There is still zero evidence for either claim.

[Amaryllis]

16. See reply #15. THere is lots of evidence for those who choose to look.

[TheFrenchRazor]

18. there is equal evidence that the votes *weren't* flipped - zero. it is your choice to believe that

that is not a problem. many of us want voting systems that are proven secure and transparent, *before* they are allowed to be used. the burden of proof should not be on citizens to prove that electronic voting machines are inaccurate, especially when the citizens are not allowed access to the software or the ballots (if there even are any paper ballots). you may choose to be a faith-based voter; those of us in the reality based world want to see the paper.

[Sunlei]

10. to easy to change a persons voter registration to disenfranchise them. Can't catch ANY of 150K???

WTF, 150,000 thousand hack attempts AND NO ONE IS CAUGHT?

[TheFrenchRazor]

19. precisely; some claim that hacking is "too risky," and the hackers would quickly, easily be caught.

the truth is exactly the opposite; hacking a presidential election is almost risk-free, and given that the presidency of the US is at stake, it is virtually guaranteed that someone will try. the odds that the hack would be discovered, and enough evidence found to track down the perpetrator (s), the case be tried and the perps found guilty, and all before the bogus votes are certified, is as close to zero as you can possibly get.

[Sunlei]

25. I remember malware was "removed" from Ukraines vote tallymachines? It changed vote/self-uninstalled.

the script changed a vote and self-removed with no trace the malware was even there.

They said the malware was removed before the election vote started. I don't believe it didn't simply re install in some areas, flip some votes & uninstall.

people are very clever with scripts, malwares, Trojans, worms and all sorts of programs that hack computers, phone systems, servers, wifi, modems, browser windows, pictures, icons, logon systems, games, twitter pics, online ad windows...the list goes on and on.

[Corgigal]

11. And hubby and I lived there and voted

It felt closer then it always shows in the totals.

It doesn't help in the faith dept, but I will stand inline in Kentucky and try again.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. Which begs the question

How many times did they get through?

[UTUSN]

17. R32 & K

[UCmeNdc]

20. 150,000 times the vote may have been changed electronically

Paper ballots hand recounts!

[Lee-Lee]

21. But by Election Day the rolls are closed and the books used in the precincts are printed and out

Not sure what anyone thinks would have happened. I'm not sure if some of you have even voted before you seem so unfamiliar with how it works.

Once the deadline to register or change registration has passed the county board of elections prints the hard copy books used to verify a voter for each precinct, at that point it's all hard copy.

They could have crashed the entire registration system that day and the net effect would have been nothing.

[Lars39]

22. This was the first year here in TN where I voted

that the verification was not a hard copy laying on the table. All computerized.

[Lee-Lee]

23. Even then it would have been on copies finalized weeks ago

And the laptops would have been loaded with the data well before Election Day.

[Lars39]

24. Weren't laptops.

[Lars39]

28. Voters could still have been turned away for their info not matching up,

Or for polling place changed.

[pirateshipdude]

26. That is a good point. How many states for the first time, had voter verification on computer, not

paper, first time ever.

Yes, I had forgotten that.

[Botany]

27. Like many southern states S.C. has large % of black voters.

I think South Carolina is >30% African American.