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Democrats push $1 billion bill for election security
Reuters ^
| Feb. 14, 2018
| By Dustin Volz
Posted on 02/14/2018 8:35:18 PM PST by rockinqsranch
Congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would provide more than $1 billion to boost cyber security of U.S. voting systems, and Vice President Mike Pence defended the administration's efforts to protect polls from hackers.
The measure followed warnings on Tuesday from U.S. intelligence officials that midterm races in November are likely to see renewed meddling from Russia and possibly other foreign adversaries..............."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: guise; pelosi; politics
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To: rockinqsranch
Not necessary and a waste of money. The only entity trying to hack state voting systems in 2016 was our federal government. GA caught them, and the other states complaining didn’t identify the source of their hack attempts.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:37:44 PM PST
by
txrefugee
To: rockinqsranch
Let’s put in some mandatory voter ID requirements and see how much the left cares about ballot integrity.
To: rockinqsranch
Are Voting Machines hooked up to the Internet now?
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:39:40 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
To: rockinqsranch
Q: How do you spend 1B on Election Security?
A: By paying off donors with special favors and back room deals.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:39:49 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: rockinqsranch
The more that they spend, the more kickbacks they get. How else can they retire with a hundred million in their pockets on a paltry 180k a year salary?
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:39:57 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: rockinqsranch
As it’s based in truth it’s arguable the intent of the bill, but knowing the Democrats I believe this is just another ploy to further their Russian mantra. Stirring up doo doo again.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:40:56 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
To: rockinqsranch
Yeah, they plan to give the contract to a couple of Paki brothers. But no problema. DWS will vouch for them....
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:41:46 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
(Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
To: rockinqsranch
WHY ?
Watch the LIVE VOTE RETURNS.
IF THE LIVE VOTE COUNT TOTALS START GOING
DOWN, YOU KNOW
"FRACTION MAGIC" IS BEING USED !
DemocRATS will NEVER leave elections in the hands of the voters again, after Trump won !
STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and
Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's
Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).
To better understand
"THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:
I'LL
NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !
Things have changed!
Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a
" ... a GEMS tabulatorfor Global Election Management Systemwhich is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the countys election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which havent, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machines status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.
At the end of Memphiss election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby Countys GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadnt checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smiths poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "
Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to
Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled
How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.
"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.
Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:43:00 PM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: rockinqsranch
It’s not Russians who are tampering with our election process. It’s the hack Democrat political machines all over this country who are a far greater threat to our elections than the Kremlin!
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:46:21 PM PST
by
dowcaet
To: Zathras
Those Obamacare Navigators need a new gravy train to board.
To: rockinqsranch
Electronic vote plus a paper backup plus some purple ink.
I even want face recognition. No democrat would get elected again.
To: rockinqsranch
Eff the Dems! The whined about being hacked by Boris and Natasha yet refused to allow the FBI from examining their server. Instead of being charged with obstruction of justice, the FBI shrugs their shoulders and tbe DNC brings in private corrupt contractors!
.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:49:21 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: rockinqsranch
Democrats push $1 billion bill for election security Wait a minute....
The RATs want us to "invest" a billion bucks to keep themselves from rigging elections?
HA!
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:49:24 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(The Obama is about to hit the fan.)
To: rockinqsranch
Read that “security” as - gaining national control of vote tabulating so state votes can be manipulated and machines easily hacked from party head quarters.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:53:39 PM PST
by
llevrok
(DACA = Democrats Against Citizen Americans)
To: rockinqsranch
Here’s my proposal:
Photo ID check
Paper ballots
Vote counting machines which aren’t connected to the internet
Ending of ‘vote by mail’
Won’t cost a billion and nearly foolproof from any tampering by liberals or their strawmen.
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posted on
02/14/2018 8:58:30 PM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: rockinqsranch; All
One simple, cost-effective way to increase election security is to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
Hacking Democracy - The Hack
The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
To: rockinqsranch
Aren’t these the same Democrats that spent $1 Billion making the system INSECURE ?
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posted on
02/14/2018 9:04:33 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: txrefugee
A $1 billion slush fund for graft and kickbacks
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posted on
02/14/2018 9:04:58 PM PST
by
vooch
(America First Drain the Swamp)
To: dowcaet
“ts not Russians who are tampering with our election process. Its the hack Democrat political machines all over this country who are a far greater threat to our elections than the Kremlin!”
This ^^^^^^
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