Cyberattack Crashes Tennessee County's Website on Election Night (cnet.com)

An apparent DDoS attack shut down the Knox County Election Commission's websites as polls closed Tuesday night. From a report: On Tuesday night, as polls were closing for Knox County's primary races for the mayoral election, the county's website displaying the results crashed. The page was down for about an hour starting around 8 p.m. local time before officials were able to restore it, according to the county's Election Commission.

"Although the crash did not affect the vote tallies or the integrity of the election, this is not something that should happen," Mayor Tim Burchett said in a statement Wednesday. "I want to know what happened, and I think an independent review will help determine that so we can move forward and work to prevent similar issues in the future."

The primary election continued, with the county announcing that Glenn Jacobs, also known as WWE wrestler Kane, won the GOP nomination by 17 votes. The crash didn't affect voting or vote tallies because the county's voting machines aren't connected online, an election official told WBIR.

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[PopeRatzo]

"Although the crash did not affect the vote tallies or the integrity of the election, this is not something that should happen,"

How the fuck do they know vote tallies and the "integrity of the election" were not affected? It's like all the people who say, 'Russian interference in 2016 didn't affect the outcome of the election". What else can they say? "Yes, the outcome was affected and now we're in no-man's land"? I expect to hear this a lot in 2018 and 2020: "We were hacked (meddled, colluded, ratfucked) but it didn't affect the outcome!"

The primary election continued, with the county announcing that Glenn Jacobs, also known as WWE wrestler Kane, won the GOP nomination by 17 votes.

Tennessee, WTF?

Re:Two thoughts

[ScentCone]

Hey look, another Trump faggot pretending there's nothing to see

It's always fun to see a homophobic liberal angrily demanding that we do something for reasons that he can't even muster the intellectual honesty to describe.

Look, we know you people working for the DNC are incredibly disingenuous, vitriolic, hysterical loons. We get that. But don'to you think that your permanent misery over - despite having partisans in the DoJ and FBI doing everything possible to help her out - Hillary losing the election should give way to you spending your energy describing a clear-cut, constitutionally sound REASON you think the election should be un-done? Oh, right, I keep forgetting that your real objection is to the constitution itself. Why not just say as much? Is it because you're a coward?