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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What the Hell Happened? [View all]KatyBR
(183 posts)52. U.S. Intelligence officials said Russia targetted state and local election systems
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/07/russia-s-senior-most-officials-ordered-dnc-hack.html
The intelligence community has high confidence in its attribution into the intrusions in the [Democratic National Committee] and the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] based on forensic evidence cited by a private cyber firm and the intelligence communitys own review and understanding of the cyber activities by the Russian government, a second U.S. official told The Daily Beast.....
Officials also said they had detected Russian attempts to target state and local-level elections systems.
We also worked as quickly as possible to release as much information as possible in order to provide state and local officials sufficient time to fortify their infrastructure, the official said. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have put state elections officials on notice that hackers have been trying to access voter registration files and could cause havoc on Election Day. So far, 25 states have asked the department to help scan their computer networks for security weaknesses.
Notably, the statement didnt blame the Russian government for targeting state elections systems, but it did say the activity had been traced to servers owned by a Russian company.
<comment: makes you wonder what those three 'voter suppression' efforts were that Trump was talking about right before the election. News commentators have repeated that the election was determined by low DEM voter turnout. Local election systems are where those totals start.>
The intelligence community has high confidence in its attribution into the intrusions in the [Democratic National Committee] and the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] based on forensic evidence cited by a private cyber firm and the intelligence communitys own review and understanding of the cyber activities by the Russian government, a second U.S. official told The Daily Beast.....
Officials also said they had detected Russian attempts to target state and local-level elections systems.
We also worked as quickly as possible to release as much information as possible in order to provide state and local officials sufficient time to fortify their infrastructure, the official said. The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have put state elections officials on notice that hackers have been trying to access voter registration files and could cause havoc on Election Day. So far, 25 states have asked the department to help scan their computer networks for security weaknesses.
Notably, the statement didnt blame the Russian government for targeting state elections systems, but it did say the activity had been traced to servers owned by a Russian company.
<comment: makes you wonder what those three 'voter suppression' efforts were that Trump was talking about right before the election. News commentators have repeated that the election was determined by low DEM voter turnout. Local election systems are where those totals start.>
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Don't start. She won the primary, she gets most of the Superdelegates. End of story.
Peigan68
Nov 2016
#31
You don't have to be a Hillary partisan to recognize when someone is trying to
R B Garr
Nov 2016
#61
We got caught up. The Republican win was in the numbers it took to win electors. That's my takeaway.
ancianita
Nov 2016
#5
Really? To my my eye, when someone with so many freaking red flags is elected
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#13
Yes. What you say is true, too. Read my earlier post to get how the evidence supports all the red
ancianita
Nov 2016
#18
I'm not saying Russians had nothing to do with it, but how did Russian get Americans
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#14
Complacent, apathetic, and no money allocation for new paper ballots for uniform voting across this
lonestarnot
Nov 2016
#32
This!! I sit and think of this exact sentiment every time I see his face or everytime I hear in the
AgadorSparticus
Nov 2016
#19
I feel like she needed to go more positive the last couple weeks. Tough to do with Comey's
BootinUp
Nov 2016
#59
Ratings and advertising dollars. Money matters more than truth, country or anything else.
Vinca
Nov 2016
#24
hard to imagine Hillary getting away with that shit, considering how her one comment on
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#39
Shortly afterwards Hillary said shouldn't have said it. On the other hand ...
Martin Eden
Nov 2016
#41
The media followed the shiny object, then woke up scratching their heads (some did anyway)
liberal N proud
Nov 2016
#26
to be fair and balanced. if trump does something negative they have to balance it out
JI7
Nov 2016
#45
yeah... the right is showing their true ugly colors, and they don't even care
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#48
Because the electoral college enough right racists were located in the right states.
treestar
Nov 2016
#46