EXCLUSIVE: Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor

[rangerrebew]

 
EXCLUSIVE: Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack Obama’s attempt to increase federal involvement in state and local election systems by designating them as “critical infrastructure” for national security.

Members of the National Association of Secretaries of State voted Saturday at their winter meeting to oppose the designation. They are asking President Donald Trump to overturn it. (RELATED: State Officials Want Trump To Reverse Obama’s Last-Minute Election Power Grab)

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/21/exclusive-obamas-feds-tried-to-hack-indianas-election-system-while-pence-was-governor/#ixzz4ZQvVYs1u

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I thought this was debunked as some sort of normal security scanning from DHS?

[Victoria33]

EXCLUSIVE: Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor
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Richard Pollock
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9:54 PM 02/21/2017
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned.

@rangerrebew

I don't get this because anyone can go to the SOS website of any state and look at their election numbers.  Plus, one can get the state voter list from either the Democrat or Republican party in the state.  When I worked with the state Republican Party, I had a code to access the state voter list.  Certainly, the DHS can get that of any state whenever they want.  I think this article is bunk.

[corbe]

   Wasn't it widely reported at the time that Georgia also experienced multiple attempts at hacking by the DHS?

[Victoria33]

@rangerrebew

And, Homeland Security, or anyone else, on election day, can't hack voting machines since they are not hooked to the internet, they are just counters, and they are locked up between elections and still not hooked to the internet.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

   Wasn't it widely reported at the time that Georgia also experienced multiple attempts at hacking by the DHS?

Debunked. Normal penetration testing I believe.

[Victoria33]

   Wasn't it widely reported at the time that Georgia also experienced multiple attempts at hacking by the DHS?

@corbe

That's just it - hack what?  They can legally access the state voter list at anytime.  Calling that "hacking" sounds like it is illegal and it isn't.