{"id":54193,"date":"2016-08-30T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=54193"},"modified":"2016-09-01T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:52:11","slug":"fbi-reports-voter-systems-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/fbi-reports-voter-systems-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Two States&#8217; Election Systems Have Been Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Initial reports disclosed voter systems being hacked, but that is not accurate&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Initial reports stated Illinois and Arizona&#8217;s voter systems have been hacked; however this is not accurate.\u00a0 The states indeed experienced a hack, but it was of the election systems, not the voter systems.\u00a0 This hack did include a breach of over 200,000 voter data files.\u00a0 This lead to concerns about how further breaches could impact the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/08\/31\/theres-almost-no-chance-our-elections-can-get-hacked-by-the-russians-heres-why\/\">Washington Post<\/a> went into great detail in a recent article explaining the difficulty of changing the actual outcome of the presidential election, or any election for that matter.\u00a0 Here is what you need to know.\u00a0 First, there are three different systems tied to the voting process, the election systems, voting systems and campaign system.\u00a0 All of these systems flow into each other, but in various ways.<\/p>\n<p>The votes are actually tallied through the voter system.\u00a0 In order to breach this system to effectively alter the outcome, it\u00a0would require significant work due to the multiple security measures that are in place.\u00a0 First, a public tabulation test occurs to ensure the systems are working properly.\u00a0 At the time of the live election, the votes are encrypted with multiple layers of encryption, and sent to a central location.\u00a0 The voting devices are also,\u00a0not connected to the internet.\u00a0 To further secure the results, thumb drives are sent to a central location that have been digitally signed with the voting results.\u00a0 If any of the encrypted results are slow to arrive, or are deemed potentially corrupted, the thumb drive results are used.\u00a0 One week after the election, the final results are compared to the paper totals, and if any discrepancies are noted, they are looked into further.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m not saying it can&#8217;t be done.\u00a0 But I am saying it would be incredibly difficult and require\u00a0multiple\u00a0levels of collusion\u00a0to ensure success, without raising any red flags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial reports disclosed voter systems being hacked, but that is not 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