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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.
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.
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"
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.
Do you realize this was a for mayorship, NOT President? Apparently AC already came from Idiocracy...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
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.
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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?
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.