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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.
With the decision Monday, Ore-
gon and Louisiana will remain the
only states to allow juries to convict
most felony defendants with a 10-2
vote. Oregon does require a 12-0 vote
to find people guilty of murder.
The high court was considering whether
to hear the case of a defendant from New
Orleans.
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