Survey: Fears over election security may stop Americans from voting in midterms - Polidicks

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/412918-survey-fears-over-election-security-will-stop-americans-from-voting-in Nearly 1 in 5 Americans is unlikely to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, largely over worries of foreign interference, according to a new survey. The 2018 Unisys Security Index, released Wednesday, found that a vast majority of the respondents — 86 percent — said they feared that U.S. voting systems could be manipulated by outside actors. The survey also found that 19 percent of American respondents "will not vote" or "have a high likelihood" of not voting next month. Out of those concerned about election security, Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 were the most likely to say that they would not vote, with 31 percent of respondents in that age bracket saying they might not cast ballots. Still, 65 percent of respondents said worries about election integrity wouldn’t keep them from casting their ballots. Chris Krebs, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) top cyber official, said that he wasn't "necessarily surprised" by the study results because Americans largely didn't consider election security before the 2016 elections. He said that state and local election officials have stepped up their collaboration with federal agencies over the past two years, and that election security is largely focused on making sure that a system can withstand an attack. "So we need to better engage on the psychosocial confidence side of cybersecurity," Krebs said. Fears of foreign interference in the 2018 midterm elections have been amplified after Russia was determined to have successfully meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Officials have said they have seen no evidence of foreign adversaries interfering with election infrastructure. However, concerns about foreign influence campaigns remain. The Justice Department last Friday unsealed the first charge against a Russian national for interfering in next month's midterm elections, and several U.S. intelligence agencies issued a joint statement warning of ongoing influence efforts from nations like Russia, China and Iran.

This is what Republicans want. Vote anyway, because even if they are interfering (which they almost certainly will try to) with votes, they'll do it with or without you actually being there. Staying home changes nothing aside from throwing away your own voice.

Lmao go out and vote people. You wanna be safe beyond the voting booth don't be a fucking coward and exercise your voting rights to ensure that everybody is safe: in schools, churches, you name it. If you don't vote purely based off of being afraid of a fucking voting booth then in the GOP controlled future you might as well kiss your freedoms goodbye.

A lot of young folks won't vote even if the alternative is fascism, shame.

Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 were the most likely to say that they would not vote, with 31 percent of respondents in that age bracket saying they might not cast ballots. I do not understand this one bit. if you want people in charge that will ensure elections are safe then get out and fucking vote. If you are scared of the machines vote by absentee ballot, those are scanned in using a much different process but just vote for christ's sake. there's no room to sit one out when 30% of this country are becoming ferverant nazis

The Republican Party is a terrorist organization.

So if young folks don't vote, we get fascism. But, if you folks vote then we might or might not get fascism, depending on the counting of the vote. So, asking the real question here, do we exist in a quantum state of fascism?

a lot of young folks want fascism

Well it sure is gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. We'll have to see how the midterms pan out. It's a tipping point, really. I don't wanna see people get violent, but desperation will make people that way if they feel they can't pull the US out of being a Russian puppet state.

It hurts us more if we don't try.

The fuck it won't. I won't let a bunch of russian loving orange fucking good ol boys scare me away from my goddamn right as an American.

I'm going to vote albeit begrudingly. None of the primary candidates in my area were even good. They all were throughly copies of one another policy-wise and were rather unrelatable. I want to vote democrat but some of their policies I find idiotic or distasteful. I do not want to vote republican though because I hate their policies even more. Either way it feels like I'm voting in a person who won't be representative of my vote. If there was an actual competitive proportional system (with more than two sides to multifaceted issues), I'd be more inclined to participate.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of Godwin's Cat.