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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHackers Penetrated Voter Registrations/States Election Site - Altered Data.
DA: Hackers Penetrated Voter Registrations in 2016 Through States Election SiteThe California Report - John Sepulvado - uly 21, 2017
Hackers successfully penetrated state-run online voter registration systems in 2016, triggering confusion and heated exchanges between voters, poll workers and poll watchers during Californias June 7 primary, Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said Friday.
I think that pretty quickly, as is sort of the case around our politics, partisanship got into it, Hestrin told The California Report. And frankly the victims of these changes were both Republicans and Democrats.
Hestrins investigation would ultimately show that hackers accessed voter registration information, indiscriminate of party, through the California Secretary of States election website, and changed some voters party affiliations. But because the state did not collect the IP addresses of the visits, theres no way to know where the hacker or hackers were based.
I have no idea who they are, or why they did this, Hestrin said. Not sure who did it, not sure why, just know it was happening across a broad section.
Twenty formal complaints were filed by voters turned away by poll workers, leaving them unable to vote in their partys primary. Hestrin said he believes from anecdotal accounts that many, many more people were turned away but did not complain, opting instead to forgo voting or to vote by provisional ballot.
Hestrin said there is currently an active investigation into the hack, but investigators are at a dead-end because there is no new information.
Short of someone coming to us and confessing, I dont see how this inquiry goes forward, he said. ..........
I think that pretty quickly, as is sort of the case around our politics, partisanship got into it, Hestrin told The California Report. And frankly the victims of these changes were both Republicans and Democrats.
Hestrins investigation would ultimately show that hackers accessed voter registration information, indiscriminate of party, through the California Secretary of States election website, and changed some voters party affiliations. But because the state did not collect the IP addresses of the visits, theres no way to know where the hacker or hackers were based.
I have no idea who they are, or why they did this, Hestrin said. Not sure who did it, not sure why, just know it was happening across a broad section.
Twenty formal complaints were filed by voters turned away by poll workers, leaving them unable to vote in their partys primary. Hestrin said he believes from anecdotal accounts that many, many more people were turned away but did not complain, opting instead to forgo voting or to vote by provisional ballot.
Hestrin said there is currently an active investigation into the hack, but investigators are at a dead-end because there is no new information.
Short of someone coming to us and confessing, I dont see how this inquiry goes forward, he said. ..........
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Hackers Penetrated Voter Registrations/States Election Site - Altered Data. (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Jul 2017
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diva77
(7,640 posts)1. FWIW, Hestrin is a repug. He needs to give hard data on the number of D's vs. R's affected --
Last edited Fri Jul 28, 2017, 02:24 AM - Edit history (2)
And frankly the victims of these changes were both Republicans and Democrats -- how many of each? did the complaints lean in the direction of a particular party?
investigators are at a dead-end because there is no new information.
Short of someone coming to us and confessing, I dont see how this inquiry goes forward, he said.
I guess he doesn't really want to investigate...I wonder why???
C Moon
(12,213 posts)2. The GOPutin is practicing for 2018.
They want California soooooo bad.