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How Amazon.com moved into the business of U.S. elections
Reuters ^ | 10/15/2019 | Nandita Bose

Posted on 10/16/2019 6:45:44 PM PDT by greeneyes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing arm is making an aggressive push into one of the most sensitive technology sectors: U.S. elections.

The expansion by Amazon Web Services into state and local elections has quietly gathered pace since the 2016 U.S. presidential vote. More than 40 states now use one or more of Amazon’s election offerings, according to a presentation given by an Amazon executive this year and seen by Reuters...snip

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; amazon; election2020; elections
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I can't even post what I really think AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 posted on 10/16/2019 6:45:44 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes
Amazon pitches itself as a low-cost provider of secure election technology...

Warning Will Robinson! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

2 posted on 10/16/2019 6:48:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (We cannot spare this man. He fights.)
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To: greeneyes

a. Good to see you!

b. I’ll join you...AAARRRGGGHHH!


3 posted on 10/16/2019 6:49:28 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: greeneyes

OK this is a bit scary...


4 posted on 10/16/2019 6:52:11 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What could possibly go wrong?


5 posted on 10/16/2019 6:53:47 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Openurmind

It really is scary. Google, Facebook and Twitter have already made major moves to influence the 2020 election. Click my screen name. See the prediction I have on my homepage for how Hillary Clinton will win in 2020. Now we can add Amazon to the list of social media providers Who will ensure President Trump is defeated.


6 posted on 10/16/2019 6:54:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: greeneyes
I will simply point out here that the last banking information security breach involving sensitive client data happened on AWS.

Just gonna leave that right here.

7 posted on 10/16/2019 6:56:20 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: greeneyes; bagster; bitt; defconw; generally; ransomnote; TEXOKIE; All

Pinging anyone interested in 2020 election security—looks like it’s on the way down the tubes by way of the cloud. UGH.


8 posted on 10/16/2019 6:57:33 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: usconservative

Darn Cloud - is one of the last things I would trust.


9 posted on 10/16/2019 6:58:49 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s a serious conflict of interest in the least. Jeff owns the Washington Post right?


10 posted on 10/16/2019 6:59:14 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Good to see you too. After 3 intensive days of office work, I am taking a break. And what’s the first thing I see—Darn Cloud/Amazon and elections!


11 posted on 10/16/2019 7:01:18 PM PDT by greeneyes
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So...you can buy Democrat politicians thru Amazon now?

Does that include free shipping...


12 posted on 10/16/2019 7:02:25 PM PDT by moovova (You can't buy it back if you didn't sell it to me.)
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To: greeneyes

the cloud is just someone else’s computer ...


13 posted on 10/16/2019 7:02:41 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: greeneyes

I’m sorry but the more I observed the way the globalist socialist elites are making big inroads in our country and half of Americans agree mostly with them the more I realize this country is hanging by a thread! Just heard the interview of Tucker interviewing Kelly and she made a very, not shocking but eye-opener statement where she said that the great majority or all of the journalist are grafted in one mindset and that is to destroy Trump because their sanctimonious selves believe they are doing it for the greater good!! ! Of course we already knew that but it’s not until you hear someone that has been in that atmosphere outside of Fox and confirmed it that you realize they are truly evil and come hell or high water they are going to bring down trump one way or the other!


14 posted on 10/16/2019 7:02:42 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Responsibility2nd

you have to love how Reuters states the following, with the denial. why not simply write “for its evident bias”?

President Donald Trump has accused the company of competing unfairly and repeatedly attacked the Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, for alleged bias, a charge Bezos and the paper deny.


15 posted on 10/16/2019 7:05:08 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: greeneyes
Amazon drops additional $1 million-plus into Seattle City Council races, with ballots out this week
16 posted on 10/16/2019 7:08:17 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Openurmind

Yep—He does own the Washington Compost—He also has multi million dollar contract with CIA, IIRC. Major conflicts of interest.

The party that can’t win elections based on their ideas, is going to try make sure they don’t lose another one, no matter what the votes actually are.

Was it Stalin who expressed this: Those who count the vote decide everything?


17 posted on 10/16/2019 7:12:10 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: yesthatjallen

One more conflict of interest.


18 posted on 10/16/2019 7:14:47 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes

It’s crazy... This is all bigger than the just democrats, this is a world effort from the global elite.


19 posted on 10/16/2019 7:18:35 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: greeneyes

We should have paper ballots like most of the world.


20 posted on 10/16/2019 7:19:27 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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