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blue-wave

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Sun Jan 29, 2017, 09:40 PM Jan 2017

Europe's Turn? How Europe's elections could be hacked

Russian hackers meddled in the U.S. election campaign. Now they're turning their attention to Europe.

France, Germany and the Netherlands are holding elections later this year, and experts agree with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that Moscow will try to sway the results.

The voting infrastructure is expected to be relatively secure since all three countries use paper ballots.

But here's how Russian hackers (and others) could influence the outcome:


http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/25/technology/hacking-elections-europe-germany-france/index.html



OMG! Is it possible that Pooty Poot is helping the reich wing win in Europe too? Hang on for the ride. This appears to be only the beginning!

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Please research Putin's advisor Alexander Dugin IamFortunesFool Jan 2017 #1
warning to europe voters thinkingagain Jan 2017 #2

IamFortunesFool

(348 posts)
1. Please research Putin's advisor Alexander Dugin
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 10:47 PM
Jan 2017

Dugin is the intellectual architect of fascist nationalism in Russia, and there is a strong case to be made that Putin has been using Russian money and influence to undermine western democracy and elections across Europe and the US for years now. There was on excellent post a few days ago on here in which the author laid out the case in fair detail. Here is the link...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028546674

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