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Georgia's entire voter file potentially compromised after machine thefts
Police said thieves stole two express poll machines, set up for a special school board election.
[...] Sometime overnight, police said a burglar stole two machines used to check in voters. These are not the machines people voted on, but are used to check in voters.
The Fulton County Elections Director said they were locked up in a suitcase like this one inside the center. Poll workers noticed the case was gone this morning when they got in to open the polls.
“It’s a statewide voter file that’s on there. It has name, address, and date of birth of all the voters in the state of Georgia,” Barron said.
While Barron told Channel 2 Action News the data is password protected, for Georgia State University cybersecurity researcher Don Hunt, it’s not 100 percent secure.
“Depending on the type of shell that they use and the type of software they’re using, that’s typically not that hard to break for someone who really knows what they’re doing,” Hunt said.
[...] And while Atlanta police works to identify the burglars and track down the missing machines,Raffensperger has a message to all local elections leaders.
“You need to do whatever you can do to secure your equipment,” Raffensperger said.
The state will soon roll out a new, $100 million voting system which Raffensperger said will have a new iPad-based check-in system, which they can track and delete data remotely if they get stolen.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hartree on Monday September 23 2019, @04:29AM (2 children)
"iPad-based check-in system, which they can track and delete data remotely if they get stolen."
Or if they don't get stolen?
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday September 23 2019, @11:24AM
"iPad-based check-in system, which they can track and delete data remotely if they get stolen."
ROFL
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday September 23 2019, @04:42PM
Or where you can steal the data remotely?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @04:55AM (2 children)
The data is public anyway. Seriously. Every political operative and private detective has a copy of it already.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Monday September 23 2019, @12:41PM (1 child)
Sad, but true...
This article is from 2017.... https://phys.org/news/2017-06-georgia-voter-exposed-internet.html [phys.org]
I'm not sure if it is from a reported breach of voter records in a test at Kenessaw State University in 2016 or a different breach.
There are also plenty of stories in the 2018 time frame.
https://www.walb.com/story/38886343/6-million-georgia-voters-records-exposed-could-have-easily-been-compromised/ [walb.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/georgia-brian-kemp-voter-data/index.html [cnn.com]
All the data is hacked already...
(and the secretary of state who was in charge of election security at the time was elected governor in 2018.)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @02:12PM
You're not grokking that the data is public, ie the government has to release a copy to anyone who claims a desire to access individual voters for political purposes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @05:05AM
As if Apple were politically neutral!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @06:50AM (4 children)
it's almost like some group of people is doing everything they can to sabotage and undermine confidence in the american election system, and they seem to be able to completely evade police and know exactly where to strike.
If you think this was done by crackheads or common thieves, did you just wake up from a 50 year nap?
I think we should make a list of all of the entities who take advantage from trump or the collapse of the american constitution. Hmm, that would have to be some foreign country and/or a bunch of traitors, and they would have to somehow have quite an infiltration operation on the ground running in the united states.
Who could pull that off? Hmmm, a reaaaaal thinker.
A nation can survive many things, but not treachery from within - cicero, paraphrased
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Monday September 23 2019, @08:32AM
What exactly is wrong in trying to make the americans realize the truth: their election system is broken already?
Perhaps an anonymous benefactor?
https://thesesystemsarefailing.net/american-election-system?no%2Creally=true [thesesystemsarefailing.net]
(very large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Monday September 23 2019, @01:11PM (1 child)
As I mentioned in this other post this article [soylentnews.org], Georgia's voter records have already been compromised. In addition, GA was one of the states mentioned in the Mueller Report regarding places where foreign actors have already successfully snooped around our county election systems.
Fulton County, which is where the theft occurred includes the city of Atlanta as roughly half of its area and this theft happened inside the city limits of Atlanta.
From the referenced article above, it said it was a theft from a recreation area (park) that was a pollling place over night.
Another article [fox5atlanta.com], wrote that the thieves took food and any electronics that they believed they could quickly sell.
So, thieves break into an inner city rec center and steal food and electronics. I hate to say this, but this is hardly news in a city the size of Atlanta. So, yes, I do believe it was a simple theft, not some coordinated clandestine effort from foreign agents designed to get election data that has already been leaked all over the internet.
I guess the food theft and ransacking the kitchen area was just to cover up the true crime. /s
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @04:29PM
Could be. These details do dissuade me somewhat, thanks for sharing.
We need to be extremely skeptical going into this and dig for the details, so thanks for that.
+1 informative
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 23 2019, @02:03PM
The idea that such a person could figure out how to break into a building and grab a suitcase that looked valuable is utterly preposterous.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @03:25PM
I challenge you to debate the issue of whether or not this was done by crackheads using my new 2500 word debating format.
You have two days to respond to me with a 250 word introduction to your argument.
I admit I don't know for sure, I find the question interesting and look forward to researching the details of the event.
When our gut thinks things, we should put it to the test of other minds.
So are we on?