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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts) Thu Mar 2, 2017, 08:29 PM Mar 2017

September Russian cyberattack campaign on state electoral systems intensified alarm at Obama W.H [View all]

"But what was going on in the meetings was unclear to the officials, and the intercepted communications did little to clarify matters — the Russians, it appeared, were arguing about how far to go in interfering in the presidential election. What intensified the alarm at the Obama White House was a campaign of cyberattacks on state electoral systems in September, which led the administration to deliver a public accusation against the Russians in October."

So does anyone really think the Russians didn't go so far as to manipulate the vote count if they attacked state election systems?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?_r=0

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September Russian cyberattack campaign on state electoral systems intensified alarm at Obama W.H [View all] Amaryllis Mar 2017 OP

With that razor thin margin, it wouldn't take much. LisaM Mar 2017 #1

And 30 states using INterstate Crosscheck. They would only have had to change Amaryllis Mar 2017 #3

Actually not even that many. LisaM Mar 2017 #6

I just posted about this on another thread kimbutgar Mar 2017 #2

GReat post. I absolutely believe there was manipulation down ballot as well. Amaryllis Mar 2017 #4

Where is the phrase Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #5

It is quite far down, some paragraphs beyond the stuff about Sessions' lies. nt tblue37 Mar 2017 #7

Count up 11 paragraphs from the bottom of the article. The info is in the 11th & 10th tblue37 Mar 2017 #9

Thanks, found it. Now, what is meant, EXACTLY by that, do we know? Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #15

That is SCARY Ezior Mar 2017 #8

MSM was reporting in Sept. that Russia hacked into AZ and ILL voter reg databases and Amaryllis Mar 2017 #10

i dont think russians hacked vote counts, but mopinko Mar 2017 #11

They don't have to, just hack polling data or registration... they don't have to touch vote counts uponit7771 Mar 2017 #13

yeah, but same. mopinko Mar 2017 #14

NOTHING TO SEE HERE !!! As multiple LPC members have intimated just cause they hacked the electoral uponit7771 Mar 2017 #12

As in "This is not the droid you're looking for." Amaryllis Mar 2017 #17

Exactly. A an election unexamined is not worth having. lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #19

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2017 #20

Thanks for posting Sherman A1 Mar 2017 #16

I think it's pretty obvious. lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #18

More: Amaryllis Mar 2017 #21

Maybe we can start to look at this after Nov 2018. lagomorph777 Mar 2017 #22