Your vote will count
Hype over hacking shouldn't shatter confidence
Americans have been bombarded with tales about how easy it is to
hack into a voting machine. Academics, computer scientists and others
tell us that they have done it and that we cannot trust voting systems,
specifically electronic or touch-screen systems.
Ironically, all of these experiments took place in the sterile
environment of a laboratory. In each instance, these experts
demonstrated only that, with unlimited time and resources, they could
hack a voting machine. What does this prove? Nothing. Is there any
proof that a voting system has successfully been hacked during an
election? No.
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The real question is whether voting systems are secure enough to
withstand potential threats on Election Day. And the answer is yes.
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Election officials are working hard to make sure that voting equipment
is stored in secure locations and that they have established a chain of
custody for the storage, maintenance and transport of polling equipment.
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Debate about making sure our voting systems are secure, accurate and
reliable is healthy. Conducting hacking experiments without working
with election officials in a real-world election environment is not.
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The bottom line is that our nation's voting equipment, election results
and election officials can and should be trusted.
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[Elections Officials] deserve constructive criticism and solutions, not
baseless attacks and unfounded accusations about the equipment they
use. [ed note: "unfounded"???]
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Americans should be confident that their vote will be counted, whether
they touch a screen or fill in an oval. The integrity of the system is
not in hands of hackers, professors, interest groups or politicians in
Washington - it is managed by local election officials, as it always
has been. No one should be intimidated by the hype over hacking. Vote
on Nov. 7. You can count on it.