#election hacking

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

She Won, Part III: The Devil Is In The Data

88 counties flipped red. None flipped blue. Trump swept every swing state—each just above the mandatory recount thresholds. What are the odd

[papundits]

4 Points In Understanding China’s Goal For Meddling In US Elections

4 Points In Understanding China’s Goal For Meddling In US Elections

By Fred Lucas ~

FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly provided a detailed classified briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week on election meddling by China.

Also, on Friday, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, issued a public statement with details of how China, Russia and Iran were targeting the U.S. elections.

Chinese President Xi…

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[tenthltr2u]

The Hack Next Time

The Hack Next Time

Why the threats to our elections are more sophisticated and widespread than ever

Bt=y Andy Kroll | RollingStone Magazine | February 2020

Anthony Ferrante had just arrived for work at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next door to the White House, when the first attack hit. Around 7 a.m., internet service went out across the United States and parts of Europe. Reddit, Netflix, and 

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[delphinidin4]

From NPR

I’ve got news for you, Mr. Gardner:

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Why Election Hacking Will Be As Common As Email Spam [Yet Harder To Filter]

Disinformation campaigns are just getting started. In the previous article on the ease of destabilizing foreign adversaries, I touched on the low cost the Kremlin paid per year to destabilize the US political landscape.

“In terms of military spending, $15M USD per year is a 1/200th of a percent of the annual Russian Federation’s military spending (based on 2014 data). Put differently, If Russia spent just 1% of its military spending on disinformation and destabilization campaigns, it would be concurrently running 200 of them per year. Russia was awarded a billion dollar US Army military base in Syria, paid for entirely by the US taxpayer, thanks to their $15M USD per-year disinformation campaign that effectively put President Donald Trump in the White House.“

[theblackpodcast]

Concentration Camps In Russian Controlled Chechnya

Concentration Camps In Russian Controlled Chechnya

‘It’s like being on the edge of dying’: Chechnya man arrested and tortured for being gay EMMA POWYS MAURICE SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Amin Dzhabrailov was beaten and tortured with electric shocks as part of Chechnya’s ‘anti-gay purge’ (CBC News)

A gay man who escaped torture in Chechnya has spoken about his harrowing experience amidst Russia’s ‘anti-gay purge’.

27-year-old Amin Dzhabrailov…

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[aulunthe]

Revelation of Russian backer stirs remorse on Kentucky plant

Kentucky State Representative Kelly Flood talks with Rachel Maddow about her reservations about supporting a new aluminum plant in Kentucky now that it has been revealed that much of the financing for the project comes from previously sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his company, Rusal.

Moscow Mitch Opens The Gates of Kentucky to the Russian Trojan-Horse

It’s all making more sense now. Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would not let President Obama reveal in 2016 that the Intelligence Community found that the Kremlin was attempting to influence the 2016 U.S. elections and favoring Trump. McConnell said he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics. Partisan politics, an accusation often projected on others by McConnell, while being a regular practice for him.

Then Moscow Mitch and his rat pack publicly downplayed the IC reports of the Kremlin’s interference and the possibility of Trump himself and/or his campaign’s involvement and contacts with Russian actors.

McConnell refused to call for an independent investigation into the Russian interference and the possibility of coordination with the Trump campaign. After Deputy AG Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Mueller as Special Counsel, McConnell and other Republicans parroted Trump’s claim of a witch hunt and a hoax. 

Moscow Mitch killed bi-partisan sanctions against a company owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska who was investigated and found to be part of the Kremlin’s attack on the U.S.

Most recently McConnell killed bi-partisan efforts to enhance election security, earning him the nick “Moscow Mitch” by MSNBC’s Morning Joe host, Joe Scarborough.

There is little doubt that Trump was placed in the Oval Office in part due to the Kremlin’s efforts, as a useful idiot for the Kremlin. It is apparent that Senator Mitch McConnell is also a useful idiot kowtowing to the Kremlin for his personal and political benefit. Traitor to the republic?

[backfirealley]

New election systems use vulnerable software

An Associated Press analysis has found that the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program voting machines, tally votes and report counts.

THE U.S. ELECTIONS WILL BE HIT BY THE RUSSIANS, AGAIN IN 2020 AND TRUMP AND HIS MERRY BAND OF TRUMPLETS, WILL DO NOTHING TO STOP IT...PUTIN ELECTED OUR PRESIDENT IN 2016 AND WILL PROBABLY DO IT AGAIN IN 2020...