Ohio's Secretary of State is making sure voters are protected after recent online voter registration hacks were attempted in two other states.
Malicious attempts to obtain the state of Illinois and Arizona's online voter registration system is prompting other states to make sure their information is not compromised. But for the Buckeye State, that information which includes your identification, driver's license number, date of birth and, address are already public on the statewide voter database.
Ohio's Secretary of State says there has been no attempts to hack Ohio and he's doing what he has to do to keep voters protected with the right security system.
"Our election system is not networked to the internet so the machine that you actually cast votes on it's not something that you can hack because you can get to it from the internet. These machines that you vote on are pre-tested and they're tested at the polling location and then they're post audited to make sure they are accurate and they're giving accurate results," states Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted.
Machines also keep the vote in three locations where one Democrat and one Republican would have access to at each board of elections. Husted wants to remind voters that the information is in no way connected to the actual voting and tabulation system.
