2016 Postmortem

BadDog40

(275 posts) Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:45 PM Oct 2016

Russia seems to have hacked everything else, why not the election results?

Not to sound like one of these revolution nutballs, but at this point there is NO WAY I will accept a Trump win. How will this country react if we go into this election with Hillary up 7-8 point up in the polls and Trump comes out on top? I'm surprised the media is accepting these Russian hacks so easily.

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Russia seems to have hacked everything else, why not the election results? (Original Post) BadDog40 Oct 2016 OP

The FBI has warned states of exactly this but some R states told FBI to butt out. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #1

They're not connected to the internet. You'd have to physically upgrade the firmware to do damage. RAFisher Oct 2016 #2

Because the results are too fragmented and not connected to the internet Maeve Oct 2016 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,047 posts)

1. The FBI has warned states of exactly this but some R states told FBI to butt out.

Reply to BadDog40 (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:47 PM

Oct 2016

Also, the deep T folks, tRump hard core, say that Obama will use this to institute his third term.

RAFisher

(466 posts)

2. They're not connected to the internet. You'd have to physically upgrade the firmware to do damage.

Reply to BadDog40 (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:55 PM

Oct 2016

Well I'm assuming they aren't connected but maybe some are. That would be incredibly stupid. Not having computers connected to the Internet is a huge security avantage. Now the company that makes the software that runs on the machines could be compromised.

Maeve

(42,297 posts)

3. Because the results are too fragmented and not connected to the internet

Reply to BadDog40 (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 04:02 PM

Oct 2016

First, you are dealing with 50+ different systems (paper and electronic in many states) that are not centralized. Even when you have electronic machines, they are not connected to the internet or even to each other. In Ohio, at least, there is a paper record of each machine's voting as well as a memory disc, a paper record of each precinct tallying those results and the paper ballots are an entirely different system (and this year, anyone can request a paper ballot in Ohio for any reason and it will be counted that evening as a regular vote).

Worry about the death of bees--it's more realistic that a hack of the results.

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