Hacking the voter registration is an effective way to shape the vote. Information can be used to target active voters. Data can be tweaked to invalidate voters. Chaos can overwhelm staff so registrations are not completed on time.
theintercept.com/… NSA leak describes how Russians hacked VR Systems — company that provides IT for voter registration.
“According to its website, VR Systems has contracts in eight states: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.”
www.newsworks.org/… WHYY upto 17,000 Philadelphia voter registrations were “lost”.
There's no allegation of partisan tampering or Russian hacking here, just bureaucratic failures that could have disenfranchised people.
Targeted chaos.
And a compromised election poll book system can do more than cause chaos on Election Day, said Halderman. “You could even do that preferentially in areas for voters that are likely to vote for a certain candidate and thereby have a partisan effect.”
Election hacking is not pursued by winner.
“The problem we have is that voting security doesn’t matter until something happens, and then after something happens, there’s a group of people who don’t want the security, because whatever happened, happened in their favor,” said Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert at Harvard’s Berkman Center who has written frequently about the security vulnerabilities of U.S. election systems. “That makes it a very hard security problem, unlike your bank account.”
www.dailykos.com/… Related diary.
www.theatlantic.com/… Leaker charged. May have fed the NSA report to The Intercept?
Russians wanted to undermine faith in democracy — maybe I’m helping?