CNET -In the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, lawmakers have seen little change in security for voters. But if voting machine security standards don't change by the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Ron Wyden warns, the consequences could be far worse than the cyberattacks of 2016.
The Democrat from Oregon, who is a member of the Senate Intelligence committee, told the Defcon hacking conference that US voting infrastructure is failing to keep elections secure from potential cyberattacks. ...
"If nothing happens, the kind of interference we will see form hostile foreign actors will make 2016 look like child's play," Wyden said. "We're just not prepared, not even close, to stop it."
... In 2018, Wyden proposed an election security bill requiring paper ballots. The House passed its own, similar election security bill, with input from Wyden, but it was blocked in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, called it partisan legislation.
On Friday, Wyden blasted McConnell, calling him the reason why Congress hasn't been able to fix election security issues. "It sure seems like Russia's No. 1 ally in compromising American election security is Mitch McConnell," Wyden said.
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Moscow Mitch knows that republicans need the help if they are going to hold onto power. It is the only logical reason why Moscow Mitch stops these basic protections for elections.
Russia didn't "hack" our 2016 elections. Period. They do put on great Rimsky-Korsakov operas and ballets, especially at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg; I shall have to go sometime.
The DNC did, however, manipulate things so that the most popular candidate was denied to the voters.
If Las Vegas and Atlantic City can keep track of their "voting / slot machines" giving everyone a paper receipt to take to the cages (don't forget to tip, just like James Bond), we could do it with voting, if we wanted to.
Corporate-bought and owned legislators, such as Mitchy-Mitch, have a heavy hand in steering election outcomes so that the many, the people of the US, are not benefited.
As Maine goes, so goes the nation, so how about implementing universal ranked-choice voting, for a start.
Until then, its Jill Stein or the Green Party candidate, since most other choices are no choices.
Look well, oh wolves... -Akela
Cheers, Tom
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