Breaches of voting machine data raise worries for midterms

Christina A. Cassidy

Associated Press

Published: September 16, 2022, 2:17 PM

https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/09/16/breaches-of-voting-machine-data-raise-worries-for-midterms

ATLANTA – Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting software available for download. Ballot-counting machines inspected by people not supposed to have access.

The list of suspected security breaches at local election offices since the 2020 election keeps growing, with investigations underway in at least three states – Colorado, Georgia and Michigan. The stakes appeared to rise this week when the existence of a federal probe came to light involving a prominent loyalist to former President Donald Trump who has been promoting voting machine conspiracy theories across the country.

While much remains unknown about the investigations, one of the most pressing questions is what it all could mean for security of voting machines with the midterm elections less than two months away.

Election security experts say the breaches by themselves have not necessarily increased threats to the November voting. Election officials already assume hostile foreign governments might have the sensitive data, and so they take precautions to protect their voting systems.

The more immediate concern is the possibility that rogue election workers, including those sympathetic to lies about the 2020 presidential election, might use their access to election equipment and the knowledge gained through the breaches to launch an attack from within. That could be intended to gain an advantage for their desired candidate or party, or to introduce system problems that would sow further distrust in the election results.

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>is the tide turning?

'I'm a Latina Democrat - and if progressives think DeSantis appalls me, they're dead wrong': In a searing attack on 'smug liberals', top former party leader GLORIA ROMERO declares it's time for her own side to get real about America's border crisis

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11220233/GLORIA-ROMERO-Im-Latina-Democrat-libs-think-Im-appalled-DeSantis-theyre-dead-wrong.html

By Gloria Romero For Dailymail.Com

13:11 EDT 16 Sep 2022

More than two million undocumented immigrants will be arrested trying to cross into the U.S. in 2022.

And Democrats don't bat an eye.

But fly 50 migrants to one of the wealthiest places in America, spotted with multi-million dollar mansions, surrounded by the mega-yachts of the rich and famous and Democrats lose their minds?

What a joke!

I am a Democrat and the former Majority Leader of the California State Senate. The first woman to ever hold that position. I am also a proud Latina.

I am telling you that if the Democratic party thinks that Latinos are outraged by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard – they are dead wrong!

On Friday, the governor of Massachusetts dispatched the National Guard to whisk away these 50 migrants to a military base in Cape Cod that once housed hurricane disaster victims.

But what about the hundreds of migrants sleeping on the street of El Paso, Texas? Or the countless other migrants, sleeping outside in cities and towns across the U.S./Mexico border?

Overwhelming rural, poor, and largely Latino communities along the southern border are expected to absorb the costs of unprecedented migratory streams in a wide-open border, but Martha's Vineyard cannot?

Spare me!

This Democratic stronghold — where the Obamas now reside — couldn't stomach having 50 brown migrants in their midst without declaring an emergency and shipping them out of town within 24 hours.

Liberals want open borders – just not in their immaculate backyards.

While smug liberals and virtue-signaling progressives pretend that their immigration policies are 'compassionate,' Latinos know they are just cruel, naked politics.

Good for Governor DeSantis, and Governor Greg Abbott in Texas and Governor Doug Ducey in Arizona for sending this powerful message by making Democrats shoulder their 'fair share' of the burden of a broken immigration system.

After all, isn't it the Democrats who scream about the rich shouldering their 'fair share'?

Let the folks in Martha's Vineyard, Chicago, New York City and Washington D.C. get a taste of what it feels like to live in a New World border-less state.

Remember that the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate proposed progressively more permissive border policies.

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