<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/29/arizona-illinois-voter-registration-systems-hacked-fbi">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/29/arizona-illinois-voter-registration-systems-hacked-fbi</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Lesson learned - get these systems off old horribly vulnerable Microsoft platforms that hackers break into routinely - and the States own office staff unwittingly enable - and on to secure LINUX and open source delivery.</div><div><br></div><div>We need to see States planning to migrate to an open source, open platform, secure voter registration system that they source and deliver themselves. We can design it, and then a delivery team can build it, and the shared cost will result in huge savings to each State. Way less cost than what they are now going to spend on expensive security experts to shore up the aging systems they are keeping afloat today.<br></div><div><br></div><div>They already use Apache server, JBoss, MySQL, and more - so getting off IIS, MSSQL and .NET to open source, open platform is not exactly hard to do.<br></div><div><br></div><div>David<br></div></span></body></html>