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| Florida man arrested after altering Ron DeSantis's voter registration |
| 2020-10-29 |
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Police in Florida arrested a 20-year-old man accused of changing Gov. Ron DeSantis's address in the state's voter database, temporarily preventing the governor from casting his vote. Authorities arrested Anthony Guevara on Tuesday and charged him with property crime and felony voter fraud. When DeSantis went to vote on Monday, he found that someone changed his address from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach. Secretary of State Laurel Lee said that DeSantis was able to vote as soon as the address was fixed, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported. After reviewing the voter database logs, Sherlocks used the IP address associated with the information change to determine that the change was made by someone living in Naples, Florida. When authorities went to Guevara's house, he told them that he was able to make the change because the state's voter information lookup page requests a voter's first name, last name, and date of birth to make changes, information Guevara obtained from DeSantis's Wikipedia page. He told police the West Palm Beach address he changed the governor's registration to was the address of a YouTube personality. Lee told WINK News that Florida's system was "secure" and emphasized what Guevara did was not a breach of the state's voting system. "Our systems are secure," Lee said. "There has been no breach to the Florida Department of State’s systems. The Florida Department of State wants every voter to have confidence in the integrity of our elections network." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Luckily, vote fraud is not a thing. /sarc |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-10-29 13:19 |
| #2 Well, not everyone knows your birthday, even if they know your name. Unless you were one of the 182 million (last time)individuals whose personal information was hacked/breached. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-10-29 11:32 |
| #1 Lee told WINK News that Florida's system was "secure" Must be a new meaning to the word secure... User received No notification that their data changed. System required no user verification (send email or txt to previously registered contact and user has to reply within time limit) to change. If the "hacker" had used an open wifi and changed their MAC address then this would never have been found. Imagine your bank just asked your name when you wanted to make withdrawals and said the money was secure in the bank.... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-10-29 07:04 |