Cyberattack Crashes Tennessee County's Website on Election Night (cnet.com) 61
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.
Somebody left caching off? (Score:2)
Crashed? (Score:3)
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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-
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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....
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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.
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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.
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It was Tennessee. They were likely not counting the votes at all and just deciding on the results over drinks in a hotel ballroom.
Tennessee uses direct recording electronic systems without a paper record. You should have absolutely zero confidence in systems like this. They might as well not spend all that money on an election if they're going to use machines like this.
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It was Tennessee. They were likely not counting the votes at all and just deciding on the results over drinks in a hotel ballroom.
There's the inner bigot in you coming out...
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Way to double down on being wrong. Nice fallback "It's Tennessee."
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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 [cnn.com] explaining it.
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It was Tennessee.
Hey, look! More of the same smug condescension that cost you nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters who turned their back on exactly your sort of vitriol. Sill haven't figured it out, huh?
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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
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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/... [wikipedia.org]
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 you
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Oh, you're absolutely correct. The election fraud in Tennessee is not limited to one party. That Athens, TN story is pure crazy. But you do have to remember that all of the progeny of those crooked Dem politicians later switched to the GOP after the Civil Rights Act was passed. They're still doing the same shit, but under a different flag.
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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
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The Southern Strategy has been confirmed by historian after historian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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
Re: Two thoughts (Score:1)
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.
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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 tempo
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Broward County is in Florida, not Tennessee.
Re: Two thoughts (Score:2)
Jeezus, ever hear of the 2000 elections in Florida, Gore v. Bush? Hanging chads? Voter intent? Ringing any bells?
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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.
the usual suspects (Score:2)
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.
Why not jsut dpo a show of hands? (Score:1)
Did one of the candidates got more than 127 votes and it crashed because the total showed up as negative?
Gong.... (Score:3)
That's the Undertaker's Music!!!!
KANE (Score:2)
Slashdot Effect? (Score:2)
Could it be that a pro wrestler running in a local election directed enough traffic to crash a small website?
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