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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.
"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.
Probably a designer ...
Is getting far more hits than expected distinguishable from a DoS attack?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Burchett said the county is hiring Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, a local company, to investigate the crash.
I'm guessing they won't find the culprit, but will offer their services to protect the county's nice little website from this happening again.
Did one of the candidates got more than 127 votes and it crashed because the total showed up as negative?
That's the Undertaker's Music!!!!
Praying for the end of your wide-awake nightmare.
Because the voting machines weren't connected to the internet, as mentioned in the fourth paragraph of TFA?
What was affected wasn't the vote, but rather the county website. Which displayed the results so people didn't have to wait till the paper came out the next morning....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Now THERE is a mayor who can be the "brute squad" at the same time!
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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!"
It was a website.
Unless you think they were using a WordPress plugin for voting, the systems were likely separate.
Could it be that a pro wrestler running in a local election directed enough traffic to crash a small website?
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How the fuck do they know vote tallies and the "integrity of the election" were not affected?
Because they are intelligent people?
Imagine is is Dec. 2000 and browerd county officials are inside a secure room carefully conducting a recount. Outside the building is a bulletin board that they post the results of the recount so far on, as updates are warranted.
Imagine someone walked up to that bulletin board and set it on fire. The fire doesn't distract the workers inside who know nothing about the fire, and after an hour the fire department declares the area safe and the board of elections puts a temporary bulletin board up to post results.
Did the fire impactvthe recount? No.
That's "how the fuck" they know it didn't impact the vote tally - the bulletin board is the website.
Ken
Do you realize this was a for mayorship, NOT President? Apparently AC already came from Idiocracy...
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No, this wasn't the DNC running the election.
Sanders wasn't on the ballot either.
Not sure what your comment about Tennessee was supposed to mean, but you might think about applying it to the DNC leadership instead.
As Donna Brazile, former DNC chairwoman, confirmed that the DNC did in fact rig their primary to prevent Sanders from winning.
CNN story explaining it.
Broward County is in Florida, not Tennessee.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Tennessee has a long history of crooked elections. Add in the brazen corruption-on-steroids that's rampant in today's GOP and you've got a recipe for third-world status.
Did you know that one of the most notorious Russian troll accounts from the "Internet Research Agency" was "@TEN_GOP"? You can read about that account in the Mueller indictment. So clearly, Russia felt that Tennessee was fertile ground for it's psyops, and that pig-ignorant people like yourself would buy its bullshit as being authentic Tennessee discourse? I didn't make it up:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16...
You are welcome on my lawn.
It was Tennessee. They were likely not counting the votes at all and just deciding on the results over drinks in a hotel ballroom.
Better keep in mind what happened in Athens, TN when the Democrats in government there attempted to commit vote fraud when you start throwing around bigoted statements like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Isn't using blanket stereotypes for groups of people something the Left is always accusing those on the Right of?
Once again, if you want to know what those on the Left are guilty of, just listen to what they accuse their opponents of. Basic Saul Alinsky/'Rules For Radicals' tactic; "Loudly accuse your opponents of what you do."
You knew I was not going to let you get away with that, right Pope?
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Actually, Sheriff Mansfield and Senator Cantrell were hardcore conservatives who ran on a low-tax, anti-Immigration, tough on crime, ultra-nationalist platform that praised members of the KKK as fine upstanding to people.
Remarkable similar to the right-wing conservatives of today, even to the point of making profits with false arrests on trumped up charges, especially on drugs, but also on race.
Hey tech team, look over there while I mess with a couple of the voting machines.
As a distraction this very much can be part of a scheme to affect the election result, even if it is not affecting it directly by itself.
all of the progeny of those crooked Dem politicians later switched to the GOP after the Civil Rights Act was passed
LOL! That old "Southern strategy" chestnut!?
C'mon, Pope, you can do better than *that*!
You and I both know it's ridiculous and debunked a thousand times over, long ago. Literally *millions* of long-time Southern Democrats suddenly and simultaneously switching to Republican? Ludicrous on it's face! You'd have to drink a *lot* of kool-ade to honestly believe it. Don't forget, I'm old enough to remember the '68 Civil Rights Act, the '68 riots, etc. I remember seeing and hearing Democrats start this propaganda meme. It hasn't gotten any truer in the decades since.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The Southern Strategy has been confirmed by historian after historian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
By whom?
It's not accidental that all the racists change party affiliation to GOP in the 60s and 70s. It's not accidental that the Democrat-founded KKK is now part of the GOP base. It's not accidental that the GOP openly courts the white supremacist vote.
Strat, you seem like an OK guy, but you're ridiculous if you don't see what's gone on right in front of our eyes, in our lifetime.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Jeezus, ever hear of the 2000 elections in Florida, Gore v. Bush? Hanging chads? Voter intent? Ringing any bells?
Ken
Wasn't that the one where a Republican Supreme Court stopped the votes from being counted and installed a president who'd actually lost? I seem to recall hearing about that.
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