Politico: ‘States Unprepared for Election Day Cyber Attack’

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Darren Samuelsohn reports in Politico that a “survey of battleground state election officials paints a troubling picture” of how “woefully unprepared” they are for an election day cyber attack.

 

From Politico:

 

While states have spent years thinking about and planning for other types of crisis that can mess with voting — from hurricanes to power blackouts and terrorist attacks — they’ve been slow and ill staffed to develop contingency plans responsive to a hack attack that would adequately protect their systems in time for the 2016 presidential election.

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A dozen battleground state officials surveyed by POLITICO insist the voting systems themselves are safe, as nearly all parts of the balloting process take place in a secure, offline environment. But they also repeatedly acknowledged there are limits to what they can control, and they recognize they face legitimate challenges from cyber intrusions to the myriad adjacent parts that go into an election, including online registration records and publicizing vote tallies.

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I'm sure the Russians will be blamed...