What if the weakest link in election security is … confidence?
This week, we've been looking at election security. We talked about how voting machines are vulnerable to hacking, but an even easier target is voter registration databases. They’ve got the names, addresses and voting histories on all kinds of people. The Illinois' voter registration database was hacked in 2016. The attack exposed the data of more than 70,000 voters, but stealing that information wasn't necessarily the goal. Matt Dietrich, public information officer at the Illinois State Board of Elections, says the real goal was to hack away at the public’s confidence in the voting system. (10/25/18)
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This week, we’ve been looking at election security. We talked about how voting machines are vulnerable to hacking, but an even easier target is voter registration databases. They’ve got the names, addresses and voting histories on all kinds of people. The Illinois’ voter registration database was hacked in 2016. The attack exposed the data of more than 70,000 voters, but stealing that information wasn’t necessarily the goal. Matt Dietrich, public information officer at the Illinois State Board of Elections, says the real goal was to hack away at the public’s confidence in the voting system. (10/25/18)
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