Election integrity concerns

Roughly one in five adults are reluctant to cast bales in next month's midterm races because of concerns about the integrity of the nation's election systems, security experts said Wednesday.

A recent survey of over 1, 000 US consumers conducted by Unisys, a global IT firm headquartered in Pennsylvania, found that a total of 22 percent of respondents reported they were either hesitant or outright to vote in the Nov. 6 breeds on account of election security concerned, the company said.

"If you are concerned that U.S. election voting systems could be compromised by outside actors, how would this impact your willingness to participate in the November midterm elections?"

Thirteen percent submitted that they are "highly likely" not to participate in the race for election security concerns, and 9 percent said they "will definitely not vote," according to the results published in the firm's annual security report.

"The lack of trust in the United States," said Tom Patterson, chief trust officer of Unisys. "The U.S. needs to build on the progress made in this midterm election cycle, while factoring in that younger voters are the ones expressing the highest levels of concern over the integrity of the process. I am confident that our country will be able to address this dynamic. "

The U.S. General Election, and the Trump administration warned last week that it may be meddling in next month's midterms.

"We are concerned about ongoing campaigns by Russia, China and other foreign actors, including Iran, to undermine confidence in democratic institutions and influence public sentiment and government policies," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI and Departments of Justice and Homeland Security said in a rare joint statement.

The agencies have not seen "any evidence of a disruption of infrastructure that would enable electoral voting," they said in the statement.

Russian hackers did not alter any of the votes, but instead of the ballots, they decided to leave the ballot box.

Almost 80 percent of U.S. adults They said that they were concerned that the country could vote to hackers, including 45 percent who said they were extremely concerned about the nation's election infrastructure may be breached.