How Much Can We Trust 2018 Election Results?
At this year's DefCon, a hacking conference, the ease of hacking, both virtually and physically our voting systems was subject number one.
Attendee Rachel Tobac demonstrated how no tools or special knowledge allowed her to gain admin access to the voting machines used in 18 states.
Another attendee, this time an 11-year old girl, took all of TEN MINUTES to hack into a simulation of Florida's Secretary of State's website and changed the results.
Even stipulating that the Russian hacking efforts are not as sophisticated (by most intelligence accounts, their tactics are more along the lines of throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks rather than surgical strikes), it still raises the question of how we can trust in the integrity of our 2018 mid term elections.