Personal Info of 650,000 Voters Discovered on Poll Machine Sold on Ebay

[Jimbo101]

Gizmodo

When 650 thousand Tennesseans voted in the Memphis area, they probably didn’t expect their personal information would eventually be picked apart at a hacker conference at Caesars Palace Las Vegas.

The strength of the US voting system, according to former FBI director James Comey, is that it’s “clunky”—every state and often every district can choose its own setup and whether to use paper or electronic machines. And there are over a dozen different manufacturers supplying voting machines to electoral districts. While that clunkiness helps prevent large-scale voter hacking, it provides more opportunities for hackers to access polling data.

When US government workers decommission old voting equipment and auction them off to the public, they’re supposed to wipe voter information from the device’s memory.

But hackers given access to an ExpressPoll-5000 electronic poll book—the kind of device used to check in voters on Election Day—have discovered the personal records of 654,517 people who voted in Shelby Country, Tennessee.
It’s unclear how much of the personal information wasn’t yet public. Some of the records, viewed by Gizmodo at the Voting Village, a collection of real, used voting machines that anyone could tinker with at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas, include not just name, address, and birthday, but also political party, whether they voted absentee, and whether they were asked to provide identification.

[Not Ruth]

1. 654k people in Shelby voted on that machine?

Including absentee?

I thought that the decommissioning of any computer like device is well defined to include destruction of magnetic storage.

[elehhhhna]

2. It's the Paul book, the list of voters, not voting machine

[Wellstone ruled]

3. One local TV Station

did a piece on this Convention,and that was a marshmallow piece at best. No information was found,yah right you lying POS. Should preface this station is a Disney affiliate. 650k peoples info,how many more machines coughed up this type of info?