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I feel so much better now.

Via Daily Caller:

America’s voting system is so scattered and bulky that cybercriminals would struggle to hack into the system and change the results –according to officials.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said he wasn’t too concerned about cyber-attacks on the voting system when addressing the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday.

“The beauty of the American voting system is that it is dispersed among the 50 states, and it is clunky as heck,’’ Comey said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “A lot of people have found that challenging over the years, but the beauty of that is it’s not exactly a swift part of the internet of things, and so it is hard for an actor to reach our voting process.’’

Comey argues that since the computing systems are decentralized and voting is done in such a localized manner, that it would be hard to infiltrate the technology and alter the official results.

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