In an age when everything has come to be digitized,government bureaucratic processes have increasingly been
becoming targets of hackers whose intentions maybe unethical or otherwise. The problems surrounding online
voting and misinformation campaigns in the 2016 general elections showed how inefficient the
U.S governmental institutions were in dealing with cyber security. For a democracy to function
properly, those responsible – mainly governments – must make sure that people’s desires and
demands be heard and channeled correctly to those who represent them. According to this
article, Alex Stamos – former security chief of Facebook – argues that the U.S government has failed again
to protect the upcoming 2018 midterm elections just like they did with the 2016 general
elections. I agree with Stamos that both federal and state governments should have cyber security
organizations as commercial corporations would not be as effective as government institutions
in dealing with national and state level issues. The U.S being the most powerful and influential country on the planet, what happens in the U.S could impact the rest of the world. As such, it
should be more careful and diligent than any other country in solving its online voting issues arising today.
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