How concerned are you about cyber security in the upcoming elections?

[Wuwei]

I think there is a good possibility that some places that are vulnerable will be hacked. A US hacker has demonstrated a few years ago how it can be done while being witnessed by a few election officials. One woman who thought hacking was not possible was in tears when she saw it happen.

However I ceased being too concerned because I'm resigned to the fact that bad things happen in many phases of the election process.

What did the hacker hack into?

The particular voting machine for that state used a thumb drive to save the election results - just data. The hacker put a program on the data drive that changed the data before the drive was pulled out.

So the hacker just walked up to the voting machine like a Ninja and wasn't seen by anyone. I see. In my precinct each voter is escorted to the voting machine by a poll worker.

I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. It was not clandestine. It was a planned demonstration of vulnerability prior to the election. It was done to show the election officials the system in their state was not safe from hacking. In principle the drives could be hacked by an unsafe computer prior to being sent to the precinct.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Sorry to interject, but this entire thread feels (yeah, I said feels) like a trial balloon to me.

I'm writing a blog article. I want to understand what public opinion is.

I hope this is just one of many sources for you. Here's the thing, though:

This is the only fairly balanced American Politics site on the web, all the others are leftist-run, with the exception of one.