Currents
November 2017
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Hacked?
T
here are few opportunities
for warfare passed over by
the USA and when we are directly
attacked the perpetrator soon
feels the country's wrath, another
instance, when Pearl Harbor was
attacked, America's response
was executed with force and
vigor. Most politicians and media
pundits have likened the election
system hacking event to another
Pearl Harbor. Only this homeland
attack was met with Meh!
Some states are making
efforts to enhance election secu-
rity but have been met with resist-
ance of an economics kind. As
usual the delay is at least two
pronged. Confusion over who
has the Right and Obligation to
do something and of course,
more importantly, who has the
Obligation to pay for the warfare.
Politico:
“We just don’t fund elections,”
said Lawrence Norden, deputy
director of the Democracy Pro-
gram at New York University Law
School’s Brennan Center for Jus-
tice, who co-wrote a recent report
on digitally securing America's
elections. “Nobody’s really sure
who’s responsible for this.”
The Constitution grants states
the power to run elections, creat-
ing a clean division that existed
until the indecipherable punch-
card ballots that plagued the
2000 presidential contest in
Florida exposed the nation’s
widely varying voting procedures
and often-outdated equipment.
In 2002, Congress responded
by passing the Help America
Vote Act, which provided nearly
$4 billion to enable states to
update their voting equipment.
The law also created the federal
Election Assistance Commission
to work with them.
The commission has now
awarded all but $301 million of
the appropriated funds, and
states have expended most of
what they received. Thirteen
states have spent their entire
allotment, and 28 states have
spent over 90 percent. Also, Con-
gress has yet to appropriate $395
million of the total.
The bottom line seems to be
that no one has proven that Vote
Tallies were effected. And as
always, the lines seem to fall
along well defined grounds.
Those who make a living selling
services to prevent cyber intru-
sion say "No one as done
enough." Those who make a live
governing the election services
say No one has hacked us and if
they did no data was added,
changed or removed."
Miami Herald
Russian hackers tried to break
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