Where are the protections against hacking computer voting systems?
An eleven-man team of FBI agents in Denver alone to deal with computer hacking is a huge investment and well illustrates the magnitude of the prevalence and dangers of computer hacking to businesses. Similarly, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies, invest hugely in defending against cyber attacks. But when it comes to the defense of computer voting against hacking there are no federal agents to safeguard the systems. What is found is that independent investigators, regardless of credentials and experience, are treated as enemies by election officials and barred from even attending meetings, as in the case of Dr. Mercuri described above. Instead we get statements that public officials dismiss warnings about computer and network security in voting systems as paranoid conspiracy theories. For example, “It’s fear-mongering by a few people who want to go back to the 19th century-way of voting,” Adams County Clerk and Recorder Carol Snyder said in a front-page article in the
