The Russians may be good at computer hacking, but they are not good enough to hack into Ohio's voting system, mainly because it is not connected to the internet.
And, as local election officials and Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted say, there are paper records of every vote cast, to be used as a back-up.
Not even Donald Trump's 400-pound hacker sitting on his couch could do it.
But, nonetheless, federal agencies – the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, in particular – are concerned about recent attempted hacks into the voter registration data bases of more than a dozen states.
And, as FBI director James Comey told a congressional committee last week, they think that Russians may be behind it.
The voter registration database is online.
"I know our voter registration rolls are online and anybody can look up a name to see if that person is registered,'' said Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Elections and head of the county Democratic Party.
"Theoretically, somebody could get into our voter registrations for some purpose of causing trouble,'' Burke said. "But nobody can hack into our counting process. That is hack-proof, simply because it is not on-line."
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