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Homeland Security confirms Illinois voter registration database was targeted by Russian hackers

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* From the Illinois State Board of Elections…

On Friday, September 22, 2017, the Illinois State Board of Elections received a call from the Department of Homeland Security confirming that Illinois was one of the states which had its voter registration database targeted by Russian “hackers.” This notification related to the incursion into the Illinois database that occurred in July of 2016, as detailed in our August 26, 2016 Illinois Voter Registration System Database Breach Report. There was no new information provided to Illinois in the DHS call.

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posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 9:49 am

Comments

What does the legislature and governor intend to do to safeguard the voting process from outside interference? We need leadership on this issue and to be proactive. While Russia may have no interest in local elections, they certainly could be interested in midterms.

Comment by Aldyth Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 10:27 am
All paper ballots and provisional ballots if they alter voter lists.Those would be a good start. Also how do we know they didn’t alter votes.

Comment by David Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 10:46 am
I do not recall if there were any reports of problems with registered voters not being able to vote due to problems. I do not recall the personal information required to register but I don’t think it includes social security numbers. I did not think local voter tally systems were linked to the net so no vote totals could have changed.

Comment by Teresa P Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 11:18 am
===All paper ballots and provisional ballots if they alter voter lists.Those would be a good start. Also how do we know they didn’t alter votes.

To alter votes you would have to do it locally by changing the results on the memory chips or by code changes.

This is about whether registrations could have been altered. Is registration going to matter that much now given we have automatic registration? You might need to show your address, but that’s about it.

Comment by ArchPundit Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 11:46 am
Aldyth - DHS, DOIT, the SBE and the County Clerks and Boards of Election Commissioners are in the process of interacting to make sure that best practices on cyber security are implemented (and identifying areas where anyone needs help in that regard).

David - Illinois does not have any ballots without a paper record (and it never has). Even the touch screen machines produce a paper ballot record.

Teresa P - the state’s voter database is, in effect, backup information to the databases of the various county clerks and boards of election commissioners who conduct the actual polling process. The state voter database is not used to run the elections.

Comment by titan Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 12:51 pm
Any of the dud duo is a winner. Any of the others,including Daiber, could beat this guy. He could put $200 mil in and still lose by 10%.

Comment by Blue dog dem Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 9:30 pm
Wrong post

Comment by Blue dog dem Wednesday, Sep 27, 17 @ 9:30 pm