Paper Ballots.
”RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election.
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Russian hacking may have breached at least some elements of the voting system, with disconcertingly uncertain results.”
Big whoop.
So the Russian military attacked America.
And penetrated our electronic voting systems.
In a successful effort to install a Putin puppet as Commander-in-Chief.
Why are we even wasting time on this when…Clinton had a private email server!
(Or something.)
Ah. OK, then. So the GRU went to the trouble of hacking the Florida voting software but the effect of the hacks was to not influence the voting software? Yep, that really makes sense.
Two issues here: was the 2016 vote tally rigged? What is to be done about 2018? As matters stand our democracy is in ruins.
How interesting.
Report published by the Intercept, apparently.
If I ran one of these polling companies I’d start demanding computer forensics experts look into all these suspect recent elections where the end results varied so much from the exit polls.
From the press release:
“Exceptional law enforcement efforts allowed us quickly to identify and arrest the defendant,” said Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. “Releasing classified material without authorization threatens our nation’s security and undermines public faith in government.”
Unlike, say, covering up a Russian military attack that penetrated our electronic voting systems and threw a Presidential election to a Putin mole.
Trump: It could’ve been anybody! But not the Russians - not the Russians. Those Equatorial Guineans are mad as march hares! Maybe it was Kenya?!? No puppet!!!
That’s a feature not a bug with the Trumpskis. So cute when they get all patriotic and serious, isn’t it.
Here’s my weekly “Dum dum dum…”
Weekly? It happens every weekday afternoon sometime between 4:00 and 6:00.
To some degree, they may be looking for just your reaction. If they can convince people (from the left or the right) to doubt the veracity of the election results, they can continue to sow chaos and discord without necessarily needing to breach the election machines and change the tally.
Steps need to be taken to ensure that our election mechanisms are secure and we need to be able to clearly demonstrate that safety so that we can trust the results no matter what the hackers did or are suspected of doing. But we also should try to not give the hackers more credit than they are due.
I cringe every time I vote, using machines that have zero paper trail. I once had a case involving Diebold, not related to its machines but to its business practices, but I learned enough about them and their machines to make me very uncomfortable with any voting machine that lacks an auditable paper trail.
VR Systems said in a statement to the Intercept: “We have policies and procedures in effect to protect our customers and our company.”
Of course they do, but notably, VR Systems doesn’t state (or it’s not in this article) that that these procedures successfully prevented the attack.
But Vlad denied any Russian involvement and the Fox / NBC former beauty queen said that Vlad is a really nice guy, so I have to believe him.
Oh those kids, what will they do next?
Next up: faking widespread massive voter fraud by “the left” with the added bonus of using real “liberals’” identities to get them thrown in jail.
I’m not at all sure what your point is. This is escalating evidence that they at least were making a serious effort to change the election results. What other possible purpose could there be? Why would you not doubt the results more than before, after reading this? They obviously tried to change them. Where’s the evidence they didn’t? I’m not advocating running in circles or burning down city hall, but this is the most serious development yet in one of the most serious situations, OK, crises, we’ve ever faced. Absent trying to calm a so-far unseen widespread panic, I don’t know what minimizing it accomplishes.
Sorry but I already was convinced they’d hacked evoting machines. The results were just too ridiculously convenient.
So you can worry about giving the hackers more credit if you like. I’m far more concerned about the fact that the Russians hacked and rigged the vote in the election.
Because they did.