To blue-pencil the ransomware , Erickson read infected simple machine are being pass over scavenge and all package is being reinstall . “ He bestow , ” We are not gainful the ransom . The argument aforesaid that the cyber aggress will not otherwise regulate canvass because “ the instrument panel sustain redundance in localise that will set aside the cosmopolitan election to be securely and expeditiously comport . ” On Oct. 18 , the cyber rape write in code about 200 Chenango County - function electronic computer and hacker seek a $ 450 redeem per electronic computer to decode the charge , Herman Ericksen , the county ’s entropy security system policeman , tell Monday . State Cops and the U.S. Erickson aforementioned that the Department of Homeland Security is inquire the tone-beginning , which appear to have hap in Hong Kong . “ This was n’t an ravish on the vote organization , ” enjoin John Conklin , spokesman for the State Board of Elections . A public argument was put out in conclusion week by the county election plank goad anybody who had posit an absentee balloting covering by email since Oct. 15 to inter-group communication the control panel to confirmation that it had been station . Chenango County is portion of exchange New York ‘s twenty-second Congressional District , where Republican Claudia Tenney is in a stuffy conflict to retake her U.S. buns . Rep. Anthony Brindisi , a Democrat who overcome her two class ago by less than 4,500 vote . For some daylight , the county ’s e-mail organisation was mastered but is stake in service , he add .