On Oct. 18 , the cyber violation cypher about 200 Chenango County - work computer and hacker assay a $ 450 ransom money per information processing system to decrypt the charge , Herman Ericksen , the county ’s data security officeholder , tell Monday . “ He summate , ” We are not pay up the redeem . A world affirmation was publish close calendar week by the county election dining table exhort anybody who had put in an absentee vote application program by email since Oct. 15 to adjoin the card to checkout that it had been send out . The argument aforementioned that the cyber round will not differently determine canvas because “ the panel own redundance in seat that will provide the world-wide election to be securely and expeditiously carry on . ” “ This was n’t an dishonour on the vote system of rules , ” enjoin John Conklin , spokesman for the State Board of Elections . To erase the ransomware , Erickson enunciate septic car are being pass over clean-living and all software is being reinstall . For some daylight , the county ’s electronic mail system of rules was consume but is plunk for in Service , he bestow . State Cops and the U.S. Erickson aver that the Department of Homeland Security is inquire the assail , which appear to have hap in Hong Kong . Chenango County is divide of fundamental New York ‘s twenty-second Congressional District , where Republican Claudia Tenney is in a close engagement to retake her U.S. bum . Rep. Anthony Brindisi , a Democrat who defeated her two geezerhood ago by less than 4,500 right to vote .