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Yes, It's Possible to Hack the Election
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of ABC News
Posted: September 11th, 2016
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hack-election/story?id=414890...
Could an American elections outcome be altered by a malicious actor on a computer keyboard? I have had three jobs that, together, taught me at least one thing: If its a computer, it can be hacked. I served as the White House senior cybersecurity policy adviser. I served on [President Obama's] five-person postEdward Snowden investigative group on the National Security Agency, intelligence and technology. And for over a decade I have advised American corporations on cybersecurity. Those experiences confirm my belief that if sophisticated hackers want to get into any computer or electronic device, even one that is not connected to the internet, they can do so. Now consider that a majority of states use some kind of combination of electronic voting and a type of paper trail, but there is no standard nationwide. In most states the data that are used to determine who won an election are processed by networked, computerized devices. There are almost no locations that exclusively use paper ballots. Some states ... employ electronic voting machines that produce no paper trail, therefore there is nothing to count or recount and no way to ensure that what a voter intended is what was recorded and transmitted. If someone makes the charge after this election that the results were altered by hackers, our country has almost no way of credibly refuting that claim. Thus American voters will have no way to know if they can trust the results of the election.
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