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Recounts or no, US elections are still vulnerable to hacking
Associated Press ^ | Dec 26, 2016 9:13 AM EST | Michael Rubinkam and Frank Bajak

Posted on 12/26/2016 7:01:17 AM PST by Olog-hai

Jill Stein’s bid to recount votes in Pennsylvania was in trouble even before a federal judge shot it down Dec. 12. That’s because the Green Party candidate’s effort stood almost no chance of detecting potential fraud or error in the vote — there was basically nothing to recount.

Pennsylvania is one of 11 states where the majority of voters use antiquated machines that store votes electronically, without printed ballots or other paper-based backups that could be used to double-check the balloting. There’s almost no way to know if they’ve accurately recorded individual votes — or if anyone tampered with the count. […]

These paperless digital voting machines, used by roughly 1 in 5 U.S. voters last month, present one of the most glaring dangers to the security of the rickety, underfunded U.S. election system. Like many electronic voting machines, they are vulnerable to hacking. But other machines typically leave a paper trail that could be manually checked. The paperless digital machines open the door to potential election rigging that might not ever be detected. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: election; fakenews; hacking; realpropaganda; stein
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Bring on the FUD, Dissociated Press.
1 posted on 12/26/2016 7:01:17 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

No. Susceptible to Democrat run precinct cheating. But computer hacking from without - likely not. Don’t believe these people.


2 posted on 12/26/2016 7:02:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai

Go back to the mechanical voting machines with the little cranks.


3 posted on 12/26/2016 7:03:19 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Olog-hai

I agree 100% we make the system completely cheat free. Is AP in favor of that?


4 posted on 12/26/2016 7:04:27 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: Olog-hai

You notice that as soon as they found cheating, they shut down the recount.

If they care about cheating, they’ll require a picture ID at the polls. And go back to mechanical vote counting machines.


5 posted on 12/26/2016 7:06:45 AM PST by marron
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To: MNDude

AP is a cooperative owned by the newspapers that pick up AP’s coverage.
We know who they are...


6 posted on 12/26/2016 7:06:51 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s deal with the largest issues having an impact on the elections:

issues:
1. Illegals voting
2. Multiple voting
3. Fraud voting by officials
4. Mail elections
5. ID voters fraud

99. Internet


7 posted on 12/26/2016 7:08:27 AM PST by keving (We get the government to vote)
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To: Olog-hai
Russia hacked our election, flipping tens of thousands of votes to Trump in swing states....

...And gave Hillary Clinton a 2.9 million popular vote lead to show that they have a sense of humor.

Sounds plausible to me.

8 posted on 12/26/2016 7:08:34 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Gaffer

It’s cute that the AP thinks PA Democrats want to fix those “faults.” To the Dems those are features not bugs.


9 posted on 12/26/2016 7:08:59 AM PST by hometoroost
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To: Olog-hai

Any machine is vulnerable to hacking. But PA has a very elaborate and redundant security and audit process that would detect any kind of widespread hack. So this article is B.S. meant to sow doubt on Trump’s win in PA.


10 posted on 12/26/2016 7:13:34 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Drew68

Meanwhile,DHS hacks Georgia’s system and nobody cares. This in the aftermath of Jeh Johnson saying that the elections need to be federalized


11 posted on 12/26/2016 7:14:49 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Olog-hai

Honest elections are susceptible when Democrats are around. They cheated and still lost, but like all sore losers they have to point the finger of blame elsewhere rather than on themselves.


12 posted on 12/26/2016 7:14:55 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Olog-hai
Most importantly we must conflate, in the minds of the masses, the terms "hacking" and "cheating".

The news reports "hacking" when what was found was plain old garden variety cheating.

The left always manipulates language to mislead the public.

13 posted on 12/26/2016 7:15:07 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (White. It's the new Invisible!)
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To: Olog-hai

US elections are still vulnerable to hacking ... which unfortunately is only a small part of the problem!

14 posted on 12/26/2016 7:15:11 AM PST by Zakeet (I haven't seen Democrats this pissed off since the Republicans forced them to free their slaves)
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To: hometoroost

In PA the cheating comes from dead people voting, not from rigging the machines.


15 posted on 12/26/2016 7:15:17 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Olog-hai

Occam’s Razor.

Photo ID’s.


16 posted on 12/26/2016 7:19:49 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: hometoroost

AP is setting the table here. Last Thursdsy Stine submitted a request to Lynch to conduct a full investigation of the Election. The GOP did nothing when it was pretty obvious there was a LOT of cheating in 2012. Flash forward to late Dec 2016 an the Rats still haven’t given up.


17 posted on 12/26/2016 7:21:33 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy
Photo ID's because each machine has a different chip

Over 4,000 Chips only Illegals and multiple votes can you cheat

18 posted on 12/26/2016 7:23:23 AM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: Olog-hai

“Hacking” is not the problem. The problem is early voting, absentee and “provisional” ballots and the president telling illegal aliens and foreigners to go ahead and vote because nobody cares. Dead and “vote ‘til you drop” voters don’t help either.


19 posted on 12/26/2016 7:25:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Gaffer
Susceptible to Democrat run precinct cheating

Precinct? How about a whole state [California] that panders to illegal aliens voting in federal elections while our President makes statements like "if you vote you are a citizen." [he must have taken the Clinton school of grifterism graduate course on sentence parsing].

Or the state of Texas where vote fraud has been developed into an art form.

20 posted on 12/26/2016 7:27:31 AM PST by AndyJackson
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