I'd like to raise a concern that has occurred to me.
On election night in 2004 we gazed in wonder as the laws of probability were magically broken by the GW Bush forces. Exit polls in key Democratic districts in Ohio and Florida showed clear wins for Kerry. Then somehow, magically, those heavy Democratic districts went big for Bush and he ‘won’ the election.
Our horribly insecure voting computers are probably now, and forevermore, targets of professional hackers in every election. The surprise that Romney and Karl Rove demonstrated when Romney didn't win in 2012 was possibly less a problem of faulty internal polling and more a problem of the fact that they believed the fix was in – only to learn that their hackers couldn't pull off the hack. (I know this sounds terribly paranoid, but the laws of probability were magically restored during the Obama elections.
Now we are hearing that American intelligence agencies have high confidence that the DNC emails were hacked by the Russians, no matter how much Paul Manafort and the Russians deny it. is.gd/...
It is even said that Trump’s strange hints that he would not defend eastern European NATO countries and would recognize Russia’s claim to the Crimea might be the reason Putin is such a Trump fan. That the email release at the start of the Democratic Convention was Russia’s stab at harming Clinton’s chances in November.
If our own intelligence services believe the Russians are behind the DNC hack, and Putin really wants Trump to be the president, doesn't it follow that every American, but especially techies, should be highly concerned that Russia will attempt to pull a 2004-style hack on our voting machines in 2016?
Wouldn't their hackers be a whole lot more able than the GOP’s hackers?
I'm not a hacker. I have nothing more to say than what I've just said. But if elite members of the American tech community are reading this and if it makes sense, hopefully alarms have now gone off where some good can be done.