McCaskill Hack Likely Sign Of Massive Pending Attack Of Dems By Russian For November. GOP Happy.

[TheMastersNemesis]

I am sure that the Russians will laugh a tsunami of hacks by the Russians. And I am sure the GOP is overjoyed and welcomes it. The GOP shows signs of maximum resistance to trying to stop those attacks. They are desperate to hold power so they can destroy the US entirely and have their fiefdom.

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans last week voted to leave America undefended, and openly vulnerable

That tells you a lot. republicans are casting their lot with the Evil Empire* and pissing on American democracy. Shameful in the extreme.

* per ronald freaking reagan

[Achilleaze]

2. Washington Post: House GOP refuses to renew election security funding

"House Republicans on Thursday voted down a Democratic effort to increase election security spending, as Democrats accused the GOP of refusing to stand up to Russia over interference in U.S. elections.

"In a vote along party lines, Republicans rejected Democrats’ motion for more funding, unmoved by Democrats’ vigorous pleas and chants of “USA! USA!” on the House floor.

"The election security funding vote came amid a national controversy over Russian election interference, and it comes days after President Trump appeared to accept Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s contention that Russia did not intervene in the 2016 presidential race — even though U.S. intelligence agencies say otherwise..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/house-gop-refuses-to-renew-election-security-funding-as-democrats-fume-over-russian-meddling/2018/07/18/20761f88-8abb-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2443ce56cec6

[Funtatlaguy]

5. It is a cyber coup.

Never thought I’d live to see this day. GOP in bed with Russians. Wow.
Old time war hawks Repubs like Dole and Bush 41 have to be incredulous.

Speaking of Repub hawks (oh, Independents, excuse me)...wtf is Lieberman? In all of this

[watoos]

10. Joe is the guy

who cost us the public option for Obamacare. Joe never was a real Democrat.

[Funtatlaguy]

11. Gore should have never picked him as vp.

[2naSalit]

3. I wonder how much more obvious they have to be...nt

[Funtatlaguy]

4. At least this time we have been warned.

The DNC should spend money at both the national and state levels to have cyber security experts in place or on call.

[watoos]

12. It doesn't matter

If the voting machines are already programmed to flip votes, we are fucked. The reason that our intelligence stated that there was no evidence that votes were flipped is because no machines were randomly pulled out and independently audited. The right wing owners of the voting machines claim proprietary rights for their software.

Until we go back to paper ballots our elections are ripe for hacking. Oh and we need to win majorities in the states in the 2020 election because that's when the voting districts can be redrawn fairly.

[Funtatlaguy]

13. I agree....but, saying that depresses our turnout.

Most Dem strategists say that we have to win by 5% more than polling shows to keep the hackers from being able to get by with changing the outcome without suspicion.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. So the strategy is to keep mum?

I just wonder if it wouldn't be better to tell everyone that the Russians and RepubliCONS are rigging the machines and we need a huge turnout to overwhelm the cheat machine. That would motivate me more than just being silent about it.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Not sure the DNC can afford that

maybe Tom Steyer or somebody similar?

(I don't think Soros has really donated in about 10 years now, so I wouldn't count on him)

[Funtatlaguy]

16. Warren Buffet? Lebron James? Bette Midler? Rob Reiner?

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[Meadowoak]

6. Hand counted paper ballots, or just hand the election over to the repubs, that is the choice!

[UCmeNdc]

7. You better believe it. This is just Microsoft.

What about Facebook and the other social media companies?

Cambridge Analytica didn't go away they just changed names and business addresses.

[whathehell]

8. Could this increase suspicions

Mueller might have about House Repugs and lead him to include at least some of them in his investigation?

How sweet that might be.

[Lonestarblue]

9. We need one law passed very quickly.

Congress needs to pass a law requiring states to preserve all computer files, included uploaded precinct data, for tabulating total votes for at least two years after an election. Then if there are questions about vote totals, independenet computer experts (not the state) can examine the input files from the precincts and recompute them to compare with the totals reported. If there is a significant difference that would change an election result, then more review of the programming would happen. So what we need is a federal election forensics team whose purpose is to audit state records for hacking and fraud. When Georgia officials had quesrions about the 2016 results, they promptly erased the computer files and the backup files also. Every state should be required to make a mirror copy of all election files immediately after the election and immediately forward those copies to a new Election Fraud group.

[watoos]

14. The cheating can be done easily by just programming the software in the voting machine.

If a machine flips 4% of the votes from D to R the only way to know that is to have someone audit the software of the machine. The right wingers who own the voting machines won't allow random, independent audits of voting machines because they claim proprietary rights.

I vote on a machine in Pa. and every time I vote I ask for a paper receipt and am told that I can't get one, the only paper receipt is for the final tally and then it's too late.

[Farmer-Rick]

18. Yup, without a fair and accurate vote count there is NO democracy.

The RepubliCONS sold our democracy to Russia.

[Sunlei]

19. audit the software won't work. a malware can make changes & uninstall.

couple years ago a malware that uninstalls after changes was found by security on Ukraine's voting machines.

Only reason it was found was because machines were examined beforevoting started.

[HockeyMom]

20. New Pa. resident

Voted for the first time last November. Very surprised to see that you could press and vote straight Party line. Never saw that before voting in NY and Florida over 30 years. My first thought was that this is very dangerous, and easy to flip all votes to the other Party. No?

After a very bad experience first time voting at polls in Florida, I always voted by Absentee Ballot. Presidential elections I drove to the local Board of Elections, handed my envelop to the clerk, and saw her put it in a big bin marked Absentee Ballots.

Absentee Ballots require human intervention. Take out of the bin, check signature on envelop, open the envelop, etc., etc. When I did mail it in, I could check online to see if my ballot had been received. Does Pa. do this?

I think I will request an Absentee Ballot here too. At the very least I will not be pushing any button to vote straight Party line. Just take the time and vote for each individual candidate.