Dutch elections are coming up in March, and officials say hackers linked to the Kremlin have tried repeatedly to break into government websites. Votes are going to be tallied by hand to avoid possible voting-machine tampering, according to the Times. Now the Germans are also worried about what Russia might try in their upcoming elections.
There have been many diaries on what the Clinton Campaign did wrong and how we need to change the DNC. In all fairness all organization’s go through assessments and changes to change with the times. That’s a fair critique.
Where it’s different is the criticism of the Clinton Campaign. They didn’t reach out to the Trump voters. If she talked more about issues instead of attacking Trump she would of won.Just a few of them. This election was not a normal election. There was so much going on.
What would have disqualified the opponent didn’t. What would have worked as a campaign strategy didn’t. Trump beat every Republican running.
This election has questions remaining:
1. Clinton gets almost three million more votes yet loses by the smallest margin.
2. Voter Registration Databases were scanned by Russia prior to the election in 22 states
3. Some of the states rejected help from the DHS.
4. Voter Suppression efforts have not been studied to see what the end result was. We know it did impact this election.
5. The FBI didn't tell us the extent of the registration databases hacks.
“In late June an "unknown actor scanned a state's Board of Election website for vulnerabilities" and, after identifying a security gap, exploited the vulnerability to conduct a "data exfiltration," or unauthorized data transfer, the FBI said in a recent bulletin.”
Then in August, hackers used the same vulnerability in an "attempted intrusion activities into another state's Board of Election system," the FBI said.
Hackers working on behalf of the Russian government are suspected in the onslaught against more than 20 state election systems, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. Only 18 states requested assistance from DHS.
That amount of targeting and actual infiltration into state election-related systems is significantly larger than the U.S. government has been willing to acknowledge.
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From Wired Magazine
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Wired isn’t a political magazine.
More than half of the states conduct post-election auditing, by checking vote totals against paper records, to ensure that the votes are accurate.
The problem is that not every state does post-election audits. And even some that require them by law, namely Pennsylvania and Kentucky, don’t actually use voter-verifiable paper trails, meaning they have no way to complete an audit. And progress toward more and better auditing is slow; Maryland just put an auditable system in place this year, Smith says, and will pilot it during the fall election. Over a dozen states still have no audit procedure at all.
That suspicion is the real danger of electronic voting systems, and especially of those that can’t be easily or effectively audited. If you can’t guarantee that there was no tampering—which not every state can—it might not matter if any actually took place. In the wrong hands, the doubt itself is damaging enough.
The Dutch are going to hand tally their votes to protect against voting machine hacking.
Before now it would not of been believable that the Dutch would have to hand tally their votes to ensure their voting machines weren’t hacked. The Dutch? I can see this is other countries but this isn’t something you see in the Netherlands.
For Trump to win only a few states would have had to been hacked.
It wouldn’t of worked if they hacked in a way that was obvious.
Experts in the field saw irregularities in some of the vote count’s and told the Clinton Campaign to demand recounts.
Trump was the most uniquely unqualified candidate to run and they were trying to warn the voters.
Clinton Ex-Staffer;
“The urge to say "I told you so" remains strong for most Clinton's former aides. They view the media as complicit in Trump's rise, arguing reporters did not delve deep enough into his ties to Putin at the time and gave too much play to the stream of leaked emails that US officials say were hacked by Russian operatives.”
"It feels like you screamed at the top of your lungs about a hurricane that was coming," said Jesse Ferguson, a former campaign aide, "but no one heard you until it was too late."
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We can’t change the outcome of this election but let’s never repeat it. What we didn’t think was possible is unfolding in front of us. Too many wouldn't believe that our election was being hacked.
We knew about the voter suppression tactics being used, the Gerrymandering and the Voting Right’s Act being gutted. This is going to take all of us to fight back unified like we had never been before.
I don’t know if Russia hacked our voting machines but Republicans are busy passing voter suppression laws all over the country. We can’t win if our votes are not properly counted.
For all the talk about the unenthusiastic voter
I saw the long lines of voters waiting hours to vote.
I have friends and family who stood in those long lines.
This was a coup. Haven’t we had enough? Gore vsBush, Swift Boating of Kerry and now the swift boating of Clinton.