Hacking and the 2024 Election

American Thinker ^ | 29 Aug, 2024 | Julio Rivera

[MtnClimber]

In the grand, chaotic spectacle of global politics, election meddling has become the hit show that no one asked for but everyone is watching.

In the grand, chaotic spectacle of global politics, election meddling has become the hit show that no one asked for but everyone is watching. Imagine it: a world where manipulating an election is as easy as hacking your friend's Netflix account (not that I'm suggesting you should). Gone are the days when meddling in foreign elections required the subtle art of bribery, backroom deals, or -- if you were particularly ambitious -- staging a coup. No, in this glorious cyber age, all you need is a Wi-Fi connection, a basement, and a healthy disregard for international law.

Let’s start with a bit of history. Meddling in elections isn’t new; it’s practically a geopolitical tradition, as old as the phrase "I didn’t do it, but if I did, I had a good reason." Take the United States' involvement in the 2015 Israeli elections. A Senate probe found that under former President Barack Obama, U.S. funds were used to support a campaign aimed at unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Just a bit of digital democracy promotion, right? Fast forward a bit, and we have the 2016 U.S. elections, where the all the headlines noted Russia’s mix of fake news, social media manipulation to the tune of about 100k worth of ad buys, and email hacking to marginally, if at all, affect results.

More recently, in the plot twist of all plot twists, the U.S. concluded that Iran had tried its hand at hacking into the emails of key figures in the Trump-Biden-Harris trifecta. The goal here? To create chaos, sow discord, and watch from afar as their enemies turn on each other in a frenzy of conspiracy theories

[MtnClimber]

And now we have federal government agencies and state government agencies interfering with elections to favor the marxists and to increase their own power.

[caddie]

Ummmm. How about, don’t use computers or mail in ballots. Same day election in person with few elections. Supervise elections by the NG of the respective state. Paper ballots. Forensic-quality chain of evidence on ballot counts. Any counts not received by midnight are null and void. Dip your finger in ink just because. No ballot harvesting. Ten years for election fraud or illegal voting especially noncitizen. Problem fixed.

[ballplayer]

So tell me how Trump expects to win when those infamous smrtmatic voting machines are still being used,I don’t hear anyone raising concerns about that.
All you hear or see are stories about polls,they are meaningless if this rigged machines are used again