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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2017 Sen. Wyden seeks cyber info Washington state man gets from voting machine makers 10 years for sex crimes Oregon senator sends letters to company CEOs Abused local teenage girl By JACK HEFFERNAN The Daily Astorian By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JAKE PEARSON Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden wants to know how well the country’s top six voting machine man- ufacturers protect themselves against cyberattacks, a move that comes just weeks after federal authorities notifi ed 21 states — including Oregon and Washington state — that they had been targeted by Russian government hackers during the 2016 presidential election In a letter Tuesday to the CEOs of top election technol- ogy fi rms, Wyden wrote that public faith in American elec- tion infrastructure is “more important than ever before.” “Ensuring that Americans can trust that election systems and infrastructure are secure is necessary to protecting confi - dence in our electoral process and democratic government,” writes Wyden, an Oregon Democrat. An assessment by the Department of Homeland Security found that Russian hackers targeted state elec- tion systems. Some states have since disputed that claim. A representative for Elec- tion System & Software said the company had not yet received Wyden’s letter. Ste- ven Sockwell, a spokesman for Austin, Texas-based Hart InterCivic, which has provided vote tabulation devices, soft- ware and other voting services in 18 states, said he wasn’t aware of any cyberattacks on the company or its products. Company representatives at Dominion Voting Systems, Unisyn Voting Solutions, MicroVote and Five Cedars Group did not respond to requests for comment. Homeland security offi - cials said in June congressio- nal testimony that Russian hackers didn’t target U.S. elec- tions infrastructure “involved in vote tallying,” but said a state board of elections web- site had been compromised, among other cyber activity. Offi cials have yet to release a detailed account of attempted and successful breaches in those states. A top-secret National Secu- rity Agency report leaked to the online news site The Inter- cept this summer detailed a Russian military-orchestrated hacking campaign in August 2016 that targeted a Flori- da-based software vendor with fake, phishing emails. That vendor manages voter regis- tration and voter rolls in eight states, though the document said it was “unknown” to what extent the cyberattack compro- mised local election systems. A top federal cyber offi cial has likened most of the Rus- sian cyber attempts on state election systems in 2016 to “somebody walking down the street and looking to see if you are home.” “A small number of sys- tems were unsuccessfully exploited as though some- body had rattled the doorknob but was unable to get in, so to speak,” said Samuel Liles, who runs the cyber division of the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence and analysis offi ce. But, he said, in a small number of cases “they made it through the door.” In his letter, Wyden asks the companies to detail their inter- nal security protocols, includ- ing whether they test their systems against penetration attempts by outside experts and if they follow federal best practices. In the wake of Russian interference in the 2016 pres- idential campaign, federal offi - cials designated elections sys- tems critical infrastructure on the order of power plants or electrical grids. But state elec- tions offi cials have expressed confusion over what that des- ignation entails, and some states chafe at the prospect of losing local control of their elections systems. Pearson reported from New York. A Washington state man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison after plead- ing guilty to sex crimes with a local teenage girl. Moses Lake Police orig- inally arrested Brandon Wayne Albert Eide, 23 — also known as Brandon Bach- told — at his home in March 2016. He was soon extradited to the Clatsop County Jail. Brandon Wayne Albert Eide He pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of online sex- ual corruption, two counts of luring a minor and one count of using child in a display of sexually explicit content. On two occasions in 2015, Eide used an online commu- nication method to solicit sex from the girl, arouse sexual desire and arrange a physical meeting with her for sexual purposes. On one occasion, he videotaped the girl while she was participating in sex- ually explicit conduct. He originally faced 50 charges that included third-degree rape, third-de- gree sodomy and fi rst-degree encouraging child sex abuse. After reaching a deal with the Clatsop County District A ttorney’s Offi ce, though, he pleaded guilty to the fi ve charges. Supreme Court opts against non-unanimous jury case Associated Press PORTLAND — The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to non-unanimous jury verdicts in Louisiana and Oregon. 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