The Department of Homeland Security says it has identified and thwarted a growing number of threats to election databases nationwide, and is working to identify the origin of the attempted hacks, according to a Monday NBC News report.
“Numerous actors are regularly targeting election infrastructure, likely for different purposes, including to cause disruptive effects, steal sensitive data, and undermine confidence in the election,” said an intelligence assessment obtained by NBC News.
Though it is not yet clear who or what is behind the attacks, the DHS is also keeping tabs on Russia and China.
Russia is reportedly trying to disrupt the midterms in a less aggressive way than it did the 2016 presidential election, limiting itself to trying to trick voters with false information from hackers posing as Americans.
Per NBC News, China is sticking to more traditional propaganda to sway American minds, though DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says she has not seen any Chinese attempts to “compromise election infrastructure.”
Sad part is it’s working. FUD Fear, Uncertainty ,Doubt
Setting us up for …These results are invalid, in order to preserve democracy and freedom , I must stay in office.
Like Maddow says
Watch this space
"Numerous actors are regularly targeting election infrastructure, likely for different purposes, including to cause disruptive effects, steal sensitive data, and undermine confidence in the election,”
The tRump campaign is undoubtedly engaged in all three.
Elections are one place we need to drop the efficiency fetish, and just go back to the paper world. It would be well worth the random errors, labor cost and suspense who the winner is, to have a system that could only be hacked by a corrupt government official.
Let the Karl Roves of the world pull their hair out a little longer . I’m all for it and at the same time lets solve the voter fraud problem .
Or do both. We could have electronic voting machines with verifiable paper records, like a cash register. Remember the disastrous “Butterfly” paper ballot in FL 2000?
We desperately need Federal Voting Standards.
Voting Rights would be good, too.