Voter Fraud Commission’s National Voter Database Vulnerable to Hacks, Say Former National Security Officials
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What’s the story?
The Washington Post reports that a group of technology experts and former national security officials weighed into a federal case regarding plans by the president’s Voter Fraud Commission to create a centralized, national voter database. In an amicus brief the group argued that such a database would be extremely vulnerable to hacking interference by foreign adversaries and criminal hackers:
"A large database aggregating [personally identifiable information] of millions of American voters in one place, as the Commission has compiled and continues to compile, would constitute a treasure trove for malicious actors."
They also raised concerns about plans to house the database on a single server at the White House, without establishing rules about who gets access to the database, or how it gets protected:
"Aggregating a comprehensive and official set of such data onto one high-profile, widely publicized server maintained by the White House may reduce the technical and practical barriers to a foreign adversary acquiring such information and making use of it without detection."
The case in front of the federal court was filed by Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group. The plaintiffs seek to block collection of sensitive voter data by the Voter Fraud Commission.
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Should the administration be able to collect sensitive voter information and house it in a single database? Why or why not?
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— Asha Sanaker
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