Senators ask Mnuchin to probe Russian investment in state election tech

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill


BY SYLVAN LANE - 08/07/18 05:03 PM EDT

Maryland Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, both Democrats, asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday to review a Russian oligarch’s investment in a company that runs part of the state’s election system.

In a Tuesday letter, Cardin and Van Hollen asked Mnuchin to scrutinize venture fund AltPoint Capital’s investment in ByteGrid through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS). The panel, chaired by the Treasury secretary, reviews foreign acquisitions of U.S. businesses for national security risks.

The senators’ letter comes as federal and state law enforcement officials prepare to fight off several expected attempts by foreign nations to influence or hack the upcoming midterm elections.

“Access to these systems could provide a foreign person with ties to a foreign government with information that could be used for intelligence or other purposes adverse to U.S. interests,” Cardin and Van Hollen wrote.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/400795-senators-ask-mnuchin-to-probe-russian-investment-in-state-election-tech

[Farmer-Rick]

1. So we let a foreign state known to have hacked our elections

Own the secretive voting machines. What could go wrong with that?

Might as well let Russia vote in our elections. What's the difference?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. Yeah I'm sure that creepy twitchy motherfucker's gonna get right on it. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Yet state IT groups are denied access to the 'proprietary software'

running the voting machines.

[watoos]

4. Exactly

4 responses to this thread, it is soon headed to the bone yard.
People don't realize that the reason our intelligence agencies said there was no proof of Russia flipping any votes is because no machines are pulled out and independently audited. Who needs the Russians, they are just a back up.
We vote into black holes with no way to verify our vote.

Until we go to paper ballots we are voting into machines that are owned by right wing Republicans.