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No, the presidential election can't be hacked [CNN article from October 2016]
CNN ^ | 10/19/16 | Tal Kopan

Posted on 03/30/2017 12:47:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The Obama administration is accusing Russia of hacking US political organizations...the final days of the campaign are dominated by talk of whether the race is "rigged."

...cyber experts say it's virtually impossible for Moscow ...to influence the election outcome....

...The key concern...is public perception...

...The American election system is decentralized by design...Even though many precincts use voting machines, none are connected to the Internet, nor are they connected to each other.

....in Illinois, where hackers successfully stole roughly 90,000 voters' information...no data was changed in the system itself...

....voters who don't show up as registered properly can cast a provisional ballot and then follow up to verify their registration in the days following the election...and many states also keep frequently updated back-up copies of their voting rolls offline or in hard copy, and. Those back-ups could be used to rectify any changes made by hackers.

...Rumors of hacking -- even if not successful -- could undermine faith in the election and play into a losing politician's claim that the election was "rigged."

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: cnn; demonrats; election; hacked; hype; media; russia; vote
...Rumors of hacking -- even if not successful -- could undermine faith in the election and play into a losing politician's claim that the election was "rigged."

Oh, let's repeat what CNN reported...just a little louder and bigger, shall we? Here we go:

...Rumors of hacking -- even if not successful -- could undermine faith in the election and play into a losing politician's claim that the election was "rigged."

1 posted on 03/30/2017 12:47:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

I just saw that Mark Warner, or some Democrat HACK at the Senate hearing asked an “expert” if the Russians could AFFECT VOTES on the precinct level.

Here is how the FakeNews CBS described the exchange:

Warner next asked if it was possible for the Russians to target voters at the precinct level with a network of bots.

Possible to target precinct levels with a botnet network for specific precincts?

Alexander: “I think it’s technically possible,” Gen. Alexander said, adding he couldn’t confirm how much that happened.


2 posted on 03/30/2017 12:48:50 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Right-but is was OK for the Clintons for decades to accept money from foreign governments????

I call that interfering with US politics


3 posted on 03/30/2017 12:49:31 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You would have to Hack all 57 states ,LOL


4 posted on 03/30/2017 12:51:17 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Obama administration is accusing Russia of hacking US political organizations.

Merely usual and customary pinko Bullshiit. Still don’t realize the reason they lost the election is because they...SUCK!!!


5 posted on 03/30/2017 12:53:38 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: SoFloFreeper

Look, the story changes from minute to minute, to favor whatever line is being championed by the Ministry of Propaganda Media.

In 12 hours, expect a complete reversal of all reported facts.


6 posted on 03/30/2017 12:54:55 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

We have to remember...This was written when they thought Clinton was the sure winner....

It was only after Trump won that the Russians WERE able to hack...LOL


7 posted on 03/30/2017 12:56:06 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They are continuing to say “hacking” in order to gas light the general Boomer population, whose ideas on how these things work come from movies and television shows. There’s also the very real possibility that the media people are clueless.


8 posted on 03/30/2017 12:58:15 PM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: SoFloFreeper
NOT ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE HAS BEEN RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC

Bogus, Bogus, Bogus !!!

Where is the evidence of Russian meddling?

Is it in a lockbox with Barack Obama's real I.D. and birth certificate?


9 posted on 03/30/2017 1:02:00 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the illegals & muslims.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama tells Trump “Stop whining over concerns about election rigging...”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-tells-donald-trump-stop-whining-election/story?id=42883773

Obama said there was “no serious” person who would suggest it was possible to rig American elections, adding, “I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/10/obama-vote-rigging-is-impossible-if-in-favor-of-hillary-clinton.html

Miami (CNN) — President Barack Obama admonished Donald Trump Thursday, saying the Republican nominee’s claims that he might not accept the results of next month’s election are “not a joking matter.”
“I want everybody to pay attention here. This is dangerous,” Obama said at a Hillary for America event in Miami Gardens, Florida.
“Because when you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people’s mind about the legitimacy of our elections, that undermines our democracy. Then you are doing the work of our adversaries for them.”
Obama also encouraged the crowd of about 1,800 at Florida Memorial University to take advantage of Florida’s early voting, telling the audience in doing so they can reject what the President called Trump’s “dark, pessimistic fear-mongering.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/obama-donald-trump-rigged-election/index.html

Of course while Obama was attacking Trump 3 weeks before the election for even suggesting the election could be rigged, he was using every agency and office of the US government to SPY on Trump, his campaign and his associates - with no results to report to the American people about “Russia”


10 posted on 03/30/2017 1:04:09 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Lazamataz; GoldenPup

I saw Obama on the news during the campaign, shortly after Trump’s allegations that the election could be hacked, deriding the idea, laughingly stating: “I don’t even know what that means, ‘hacking an election.’ How do you hack an election?”

Does anyone else remember that moment of media Trump-mockery?

Assuming that video has not been scrubbed forever, Team Dem has a little explaining to do.


11 posted on 03/30/2017 1:08:41 PM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Chad N. Freud; silverleaf

P.S. - I see silverleaf just posted the same recollection.


12 posted on 03/30/2017 1:09:52 PM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

bump


13 posted on 03/30/2017 1:10:06 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

stop using SOROS voting equipment....
there
no more “hacks”...


14 posted on 03/30/2017 1:12:51 PM PDT by zzwhale (ho2)
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