{"id":1728166,"date":"2022-11-07T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728166"},"modified":"2022-11-07T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:47:47","slug":"uh-oh-looks-like-politico-is-dabbling-in-election-denying-warning-voting-machines-could-be-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uh-oh-looks-like-politico-is-dabbling-in-election-denying-warning-voting-machines-could-be-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh: Looks Like Politico Is Dabbling In \u2018Election Denying,\u2019 Warning Voting Machines Could Be Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuh-oh-looks-like-politico-is-dabbling-in-election-denying-warning-voting-machines-could-be-hacked%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1728166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Aw, you hate to see it. The Beltway\u2019s favorite left-wing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/legacy-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">propaganda outlet<\/a> is dabbling in some \u201celection denying\u201d by wondering if certain voting machines can be trusted in Tuesday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re confused by this warning, having previously been admonished by the\u00a0Democratic Party and their all-too-eager media allies that anybody who dares question the integrity of a U.S. election is a fascist and a threat to democracy, it\u2019s understandable. But please, try to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2020 presidential election was rife with allegations of voting machine hacks that were later debunked,\u201d Politico tweeted Monday. But \u201cthere are real risks that hackers could tunnel into voting equipment and other election infrastructure to try to undermine Tuesday\u2019s vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2020 presidential election was rife with allegations of voting machine hacks that were later debunked. <\/p>\n<p>Yet there are real risks that hackers could tunnel into voting equipment and other election infrastructure to try to undermine Tuesday\u2019s vote.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kDij1J08eU\">https:\/\/t.co\/kDij1J08eU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 POLITICO (@politico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politico\/status\/1589568452699820032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These vulnerabilities only seem to show themselves whenever Democrats lose, or are about to lose, an election. Reporter\u00a0Eric Geller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/07\/6-election-security-threats-to-watch-for-on-election-day-00065277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asserts<\/a>\u00a0in the story that these problems exist in 2022 and were concerning in previous elections, yet magically were not present in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Geller noted that attacks on the midterm elections could come from misinformation and hacks of social media accounts, voter registrations, and even campaign websites. He also added that the use of internet modems to transmit voter data could be targeted by nefarious actors who then manipulate vote tallies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least seven states and Washington, D.C., use wireless modems to transmit unofficial election-night results to their central offices,\u201d Geller wrote. \u201cThese modems use telecommunications networks that are vulnerable to hackers, and malicious actors could exploit them to tamper with unofficial vote data, corrupt voting machines or compromise the computers used to tally official results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these concerns have been around for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the 2018 election, HBO even released a documentary titled \u201cKill Chain: The Cyber War on America\u2019s Elections,\u201d purporting to show multiple ways a third party could access or change voting data.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>So in other words, it seems okay to raise concerns about any election except 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As The Heritage Foundation\u2019s John Cooper put it, the American political press is basically saying, \u201cFraud wasn\u2019t a problem when our side won, but now that we\u2019re about to get hammered, it totally is!\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFraud wasn\u2019t a problem when our side won, but now that we\u2019re about to get hammered, it totally is!\u201d \u2014 American political press <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBdC5jfCPJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/XBdC5jfCPJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1589635505641381888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In reaction, Sean Davis of The Federalist also tweeted, \u201cWeird how election hacking and security are only real issues when Democrats are about to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Weird how election hacking and security are only real issues when Democrats are about to lose. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BZYhEuwLRt\">https:\/\/t.co\/BZYhEuwLRt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1589630015012233216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brazenness of legacy media is laughable at this point, but they don\u2019t seem to be in on the joke.<\/p>\n<p>As evidenced by the quick reactions on Twitter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=americansd+consider+media+to+be+threat+to+democracy&#038;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&#038;oq=americansd+consider+media+to+be+threat+to+democracy&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i30i546.5034j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls showing<\/a> that the majority of Americans believe \u201cmainstream media\u201d is a threat to democracy, it is obvious these outlets no longer have the sway they once did on the country.<\/p>\n<p>That is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aw, you hate to see it. The Beltway\u2019s favorite left-wing\u00a0propaganda outlet is dabbling in some \u201celection denying\u201d by wondering if certain voting machines can be trusted in Tuesday\u2019s elections. If you\u2019re confused by this warning, having previously been admonished by the\u00a0Democratic Party and their all-too-eager media allies that anybody who dares question the integrity of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1728169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}