@rangerrebew @Sanguine@mystery-ak@OceanderFrom the article:
“This IP address did access our election night results on November 7, 2016.” Kentucky responded the same IP address “did touch the KY (online voter registration) system on one occasion, 11/1/16.”
"did access our election night results"
That was not a hack. Anyone can "access" election night returns by clicking on the Secretary of State website, and clicking on "election night results". I do it on every election here in Texas - those results are there for anyone to see. When I do it, certainly my computer IP address is registered on their website guts to see which IP addresses looked at those results. So, they saw that Homeland Security looked at the election results.
"Kentucky responded the same IP address “did touch the KY (online voter registration) system on one occasion, 11/1/16.”
That was not a hack, either. Homeland Security's IP address was there that they "looked" at their online voter registration system. There is a blank form on every Secretary of State's website to register to vote. Anyone can look at that form. If I looked at their form, my IP address would register in the guts of their website that I had been there to look. You can print that form, fill it out, and take it to your county voter registrar to register to vote.
General information about actual voter lists:
When I worked in the Republican Party, I had to pay for the county voter list in my county and pay for any other county's voter list. These were on disks at that time. One year I helped some state judges with their elections and they paid for each county's voter list in their district and sent those to me. All those were disks which I downloaded to my computer.
Then, technology was improved, and our State Republican Party had all our county voter lists on the web. No more paying for voter lists. One had to have a code from the state party to access a county voter list. That, of course, was needed to keep unauthorized persons from getting those lists. I was given a code to access my county and other codes to access other county lists I needed when helping Republican candidates in other counties or district candidates involving multiple counties.
Shortly after the above happened, the Republican National Party got the entire nation's voter list, as did the Democrats. Those lists are available to their national candidates.
So, voter lists are not private information that no one can get. Homeland Security can have those lists without "hacking" into a state's voter list. It would be ridiculous to do that when the lists are available.
When people don't understand the process, they can get unhinged to think Homeland Security must have broken the law to "look at" a blank form on the SOS website or "look at" their election night voter results. Seeing the Homeland Security IP address looked at a website is only that, they looked at information there for all to see.
