Could voting fraud panel create an easy target for hackers?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/could-voting-fraud-panel-create-an-easy-target-for-hackers/2017/08/09/122fc09c-7cbf-11e7-b2b1-aeba62854dfa_story.html
Officials from both parties had a consistent answer last year
when asked about the security of voting systems: U.S.
elections are so decentralized that it would be impossible for
hackers to manipulate ballot counts or voter rolls on a wide
scale. But the voter fraud commission established by
President Donald Trump could take away that one bit of
security. The commission has requested information on voters
from every state and recently won a federal court challenge to
push ahead with the collection, keeping it in one place. By
compiling a national list of registered voters, the federal
government could provide one-stop shopping for hackers and
hostile foreign governments seeking to wreak havoc with
elections. "Coordinating a national voter registration system
located in the White House is akin to handing a zip drive to
Russia," said Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan
Grimes, a Democrat who has refused to send data to the
commission.
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