[LINK] Cyberattack during US election in Florida

Tue Mar 19 11:10:12 AEDT 2013

[This story is about getting absentee ballots, not hacking the voting 
machines. I voted absentee last year and even submitted my vote 
online in Arizona. And yes, it was legal for me to do so. :-) ]

  Florida Cyberattack On Absentee Ballot Site Is First Known Case Of 
Online Election Tampering: Report
The Huffington Post  |  By Nick Wing    Posted: 03/18/2013 3:38 pm 
EDT  |  Updated: 03/18/2013 3:51 pm EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/florida-cyberattack-election_n_2901969.html

A Florida website became the first known target of an 
election-focused cyberattack last year, when more than 2,500 "phantom 
requests" for absentee ballots were made from international 
locations, 
<http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/18/17314818-cyberattack-on-florida-election-is-first-known-case-in-us-experts-say?lite>NBC 
News reported Monday.

The 
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/23/3250726/the-case-of-the-phantom-ballots.html>Miami 
Herald first reported in February about the irregularities on the 
election website, which took submissions for absentee ballots. The 
Herald found that 2,552 requests were filed to a Miami-Dade County 
elections website over a two-and-a-half week period in July, 
primarily targeting Democratic voters ahead of upcoming primary 
elections. They came on behalf of voters who had not actually applied 
for absentee ballots and were tracked to a few Internet Protocol 
addresses registered in India, the United Kingdom and other foreign countries.

NBC 
<http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/18/17314818-cyberattack-on-florida-election-is-first-known-case-in-us-experts-say?lite>reports 
that the incident has been 
<http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A_U.S.%20news/US-news-PDFs/miami-hack-grand-jury.pdf>officially 
documented and is being met with concern among election watchers as 
the first attack of its kind.