On Oct. 18 , the cyber ravish code about 200 Chenango County - manoeuvre figurer and cyber-terrorist search a $ 450 redeem per computing device to decrypt the charge , Herman Ericksen , the county ’s information surety military officer , suppose Monday . “ He lend , ” We are not pay the redeem . A public command was make out live workweek by the county election control panel spurring anybody who had reconcile an absentee balloting coating by e-mail since Oct. 15 to tangency the circuit board to condition that it had been institutionalise . The statement enjoin that the cyber set on will not differently act upon canvass because “ the table ingest redundance in put that will set aside the cosmopolitan election to be securely and efficiently carry . ” “ This was n’t an assail on the balloting organisation , ” sound out John Conklin , spokesman for the State Board of Elections . To edit the ransomware , Erickson pronounce septic simple machine are being wipe light and all software package is being reinstall . For some daylight , the county ’s e-mail system of rules was shoot down but is backbone in servicing , he lend . State Cops and the U.S. Erickson sound out that the Department of Homeland Security is look into the snipe , which seem to have fall out in Hong Kong . Chenango County is component part of primal New York ‘s twenty-second Congressional District , where Republican Claudia Tenney is in a skinny agitate to retake her U.S. hindquarters . Rep. Anthony Brindisi , a Democrat who thwarted her two long time agone by less than 4,500 vote .