August 23, 2018
By Sue Halpern
...Voter-registration databases, (click here) like the one in the cyber range and the ones built for the young R00tz Asylum hackers, are rich targets for hackers. “If we look at what happened in 2016, that was all about poking the back-office systems and support systems,” Hursti said. During the 2016 election, Russian operatives targeted election systems in twenty states. Change a letter in the spelling of a voter’s name, change a house number, strike someone from the registry altogether, and when they show up at the polls they’re going to be turned away. This is crucial: votes don’t need to be changed and voting machines don’t need to be tampered with for an election to be hacked....
