Wednesday, August 14, 2024

What These Hackers Just Discovered Doesn't Bode Well for Election Integrity This Year
Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet 

It’s not a conspiracy theory, nor is it right-wing hysterics: our elections are vulnerable to cyber-attack. It’s hilarious that when we say it, we’re crackpots, though Democrats have been whining about Russian interference since 2016. Democrats still have a healthy slice of the party that feels to this day, despite it being debunked as an FBI election interference operation, that the Kremlin tilted the 2016 race and Trump is a KGB agent. It’s why the Russian collusion nonsense still has legs in the media—there are enough morons who continue to think it’s real. Myths aside, a hackers' convention exposed glaring vulnerabilities in our election system this year. The good news is that we know where the problems are; the bad news is that we can’t do anything about it until after the election (via Politico):

"Some of the best hackers in the world gathered in Las Vegas over the weekend to try to break into voting machines that will be used in this year’s election — all with an eye to helping officials identify and fix vulnerabilities. Read more and see X here.

The PA Department of State Did Not Just Tweet This About Election Night Return
Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is warning us ahead of Election Day: they might not have all the ballots counted that night. We’re back to this nonsense of election workers counting ballots for a few hours and then being sent home as if they spent two whole days in the coal mines. It’s embarrassing that in the United Kingdom’s general elections, every ballot for their 650 seats is counted the same night, and often, we know which party has clinched enough seats to form a government. 

This thread by Pennsylvania’s Department of State is how conspiracy theories and questions about the election results begin: 

"Pennsylvanians won’t always know the final results of all races on election night. Any changes in results that occur as counties continue to count ballots are not evidence that an election is “rigged.”

The department tweeted that on August 8, and it should have led to some eyebrows being raised. Four days later, they explained why: Read more and see Xs here.

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