Politico: Will the Georgia Special Election Get Hacked?

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The state’s voting systems are uniquely vulnerable, security researchers say—and the state has ignored efforts to fix the problem.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/14/will-the-georgia-special-election-get-hacked-215255

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Part of Karen Handel's job as SoS was to prevent issues like this, and she completely botched that. In fact, botched may be the wrong word - she seemingly abdicated her responsibility and didn't do anything.

Why is Georgia so resistant to securing their election servers/machines? For all the talk the GOP does about "election integrity" and voter fraud, you'd think this would be one of the first things they address, and yet here we are, with servers so badly configured that anyone could have, and ended up actually downloading all their voting machine / voter registration files off their unprotected server.

This is why the federal government needs to start stepping in with states that refuse to (or prove themselves incapable of) handling election security.

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I do think the title is a little provocative, given it's entirely based on vulnerability and not any credible threat. The point is that Georgia's elections are very much vulnerable to tampering that could not be easily detected, and that the GA government has shown a strange resistance to actually fixing the problems with their systems.

Under normal circumstances, one would probably expect the party that is constantly screaming about 'election integrity' to actually try and hold secure elections, not resist even the most simple precautions.