Official: No 'manipulation' of data seen in election hacks

Associated Press ^ | Oct. 1, 2016 1:45 PM ET | Tami Abdollah

[Olog-hai]

Hackers have made their way into state election systems “in a few cases,” but the federal government hasn’t found “any manipulation” so far of voting information, the Homeland Security secretary said Saturday.

Twenty-one states have contacted the agency for help in safeguarding their election systems, and Jeh Johnson is urging additional requests for cybersecurity assistance.

“We hope to see more,” Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement.

A department official told The Associated Press on Friday that hackers have targeted the voter registration systems of more than 20 states in recent months. The official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the subject and spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was unclear whether the hackers were foreign or domestic. …

[Celerity]

So hackers stopped in, changed exactly zero results and left ?

Nice guys.

I thought they would just say “Yeah, the elections are totally bad and the Russians will change every vote to “Wet Penis 2016””

[DJ Frisat]

Translation: Any extra or changed votes will favor the Rats and/or Hillary...

[txrefugee]

They’ve probably discovered the Democrat Party hacking into the state voting sysrtems while salting the computers with Hillary votes. When it was discovered, Loretta “Lap Dog” Lynch said she “deemed” it was for the common good of the country, so there wouldn’t be any prosecution.

[headstamp 2]

Homeland Security will agree to do the hacking instead.

[wastoute]

Boy, I sure am glad DHS Director Jeh Jonson is on the case. We can all sleep peaceful now...

[Personal Responsibility]

Oh, well, if they said it then it must be true.

[VTenigma]

So definitely manipulation of data, got it.

[4Liberty]

After Jonathan Gruber, are these people for real????

Honestly -- how dumb do they think voters are?

We SEE what you're doing, rats.

🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀

[thoughtomator]

The DNC was caught dead to rights illegally, manipulating voter information, and somehow as if by magic selectively throwing hundreds of thousands of Sanders primary voters off the party rolls.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6J1ecILnk3UUy1KZ2FUT29iQ1E/view?pref=2&pli=1

If Homeland Security isn’t aware of this, they are either complicit or incompetent.

[knarf]

If the federal government says it’s true, well then heck ... it must be true.

[Persevero]

One thing I think about the hacking of elections is:

if the “left” can hack, so can the “right.”

I want free and fair elections, and I don’t plan on nor am I able to manipulate any vote.

But at least some people at any end of the political spectrum CAN.

So why assume that any and all manipulation is done by leftists? Granted they have less respect for law and order. But the folks on the right tend to have more marketable type skills no? We work, right?

[Spok]

If you think a politicized IRS was an outrage, wait until Homeland Security takes charge of our elections. We will truly have attained banana republic status.

[kabar]

They don’t need to manipulate data, just use it.