Voters in Florida and Alaska reported receiving threatening emails telling them to “Vote for Trump or else!” in what appear to be attempts at voter intimidation and have pushed elections officials in those states to contact law enforcement for further investigation.
How about show us the email, so we can decide?
Nice try
Actually saw a copy of one on FB yesterday. One was received here in Wisconsin too, I believe.
I’ll see if I can find it.
For Putin, it’s only important that he illustrate how weak and ineffectual democratic values are. Getting Trump elected in 2016 was only a bonus. These latest operations are aimed at causing widespread insecurity about democratic institutions.
He doesn’t care if we know it was Russia.
So, what’s the cure? Overwhelming resistance.
…analyst who reviewed one email told CNN it had been sent using foreign internet infrastructure."
So a VPN or TOR ? Could have come from across the street.
Probably something to this. Florida has been a gimme for GOP POTUS candidates for some time now. Big wad of EC votes that they really didn’t have to work for. I think the Florida GOP’s internal polling is telling them things are different this time. My House Rep is an obnoxious GOP’er named Rutherford. He’s been around forever and usually doesn’t have to campaign much… When he has his ads have been laced with “conservative” and they were until just a few months ago. I don’t watch enough TV to keep up with political ads but its annual Demi Glace time so I spent hours and hours under my wife’s TV in the kitchen yesterday and last night. Rutherford’s ads don’t mention conservative at all. He’s running a lot of them and championing himself as a “bi-partisan” guy ( which is utter bullshit ) and that he can work with the “democratic” ( he does not say “democrat” ) party. This comes across to me as seeing what’s in the tea leaves and a a fuck Trump approach.
Something’s going down.
No. VPN’s are easy to pin down. Any tech savvy agency can determine a VPN spoof from a real internet location.○
Edit: It was Iran…which should cause a thought or two. NO way Iran wants anything good for the USA. Not for the Great Satan. So they want Trump ( cuz he would be bad ) elected Or…this is a 3 dimensional scam constructed to blow up and put a nudge on Biden’s chances ( who might return to Obama policies and lift sanctions ). Who knows? Iran sure as shit aint telling. But it would be ever so nice if the American people and their leaders would catch on to the fact that our divisions are seen as weaknesses by our foes and those foes are manipulating them.
Yes, reporters being ignorant of the most basic Internet methods is … not cute.
Sure. But they didn’t say the didn’t ‘pin down the origin’. Or 'couldn’t. They said “sent using foreign internet infrastructure” - which a VPN might use. Or TOR.
We think it went through a an internet node outside the US - is hardly nefarious or proof of Russian connections. But It COULD be Russia.
It’s obviously a foreign hit. It’s not the IP that gives it away but the style and what it takes for granted. This was target at young Americans, some of the most tech savvy and teach aware people on earth. Nobody that lives here would think this able to fly. But it might fly in Russia and therefore be something a Russian group might try. To try this lame shit and aim it at a group of people that 90% or more of have already voted is not a native American thing to do.
I don’t know about the rest of you but receiving a ‘threatening email’ would piss me off and make me even more determined to VOTE.
Certainly is cause for great curiosity.
Misspelling and typos surely abound.
And if there is an inordinate amount of capitalization, one might wonder if Trump’s the one sending them.
Without looking at it, I can’t comment on its origin.
My comment was about the logic of this one sentence:
While the emails appeared to be sent from an address affiliated with a far-right group, an analyst who reviewed one email told CNN it had been sent using foreign internet infrastructure.
Russian hackers.
They are trying to impress boss Putin with their cleverness.
A VPN would take the message from a domestic computer…encrypt it…then tun it though the computers ISP to the VPN servers where it is decrypted and attached to an IP provided by the VPN for interfacing with the internet. It will travel about and return back to the VPN and again be encrypted, sent top the users USA ISP and decrypted on that users computer. IF there’s more than one foreign IP its a foreign hit as only the VPN is foreign. If it’s local it went out the VPN and came back to the USA. If I connect through Albania but my message has Romanian, Russian and German tracks…That’s not a VPN footprints.
Techy types at CNN and NYT say the emails were routed through Estonia and Saudi Arabia.
I dunno, where is Brad Pascale these days?
Maybe he thinks he could get back in BLOTUS’s good graces with a stunt like this…
Yes, who would have thought that Biden could be so clever and tech savvy.
If Putin realizes (he can read the polls too) that Trump is toast, he will go for the next best thing - civil unrest. By the time we get past Election Day, past the votes being counted, and past the court challenges we will have a country where whomever wins (probably Biden) at least 10% of the population are going to engage in protest, and a good number of these will become violent. Don’t think civil war, but rather random acts of violence.