Here’s how voter data could get hacked, but Orange County says rigged election is almost impossible

With all the talk about election rigging in the lead-up to Tuesday, the bad news is that hackers might be able to find and compromise and maybe even change California voter registration databases.

The good news? If they did, it wouldn’t do much to the election.

Mikhail Gofman, associate professor of computer science at Cal State Fullerton, says it’s possible, theoretically, for the system to be hacked.

Neal Kelley, Orange County’s registrar of voters, says the election system’s checks and balances would make it impossible for such a hack to have any influence on a vote.

Here’s what they’re talking about:

Gofman envisions a scenario in which people show up to vote on Election Day only to find they cannot because a hacker has erased them from the registration rolls. For the full article click here 

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