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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEsquire: Russians may have hacked vote totals
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55603/russia-hack-voting-totals/spanone
(135,875 posts)emulatorloo
(44,183 posts)About to dig into Pierce's article, thanks for the link.
FreeState
(10,580 posts)BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)I noticed, too. Id love an update.
spooky3
(34,477 posts)an update from Pierce.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)We've known for a while that Russia tried to hack into the voting machines, but they failed. The article doesn't reveal any new information.
Here's a pretty good article from the Chicago Tribune about the same subject.
"A small number of systems were unsuccessfully exploited as though somebody had rattled the doorknob but was unable to get in, so to speak,"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-senator-voting-machine-cyberattacks-20171003-story.html
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)greeny2323
(590 posts)That's just a reckless inflammatory article with no additional evidence that hasn't been written about many times before.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)kcr
(15,320 posts)They will hear nothing that contradicts their POV because they'd always taken such a hardline they were bound to have egg on their face when the story unfolded.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Inflammatory means intended to arouse angry feelings. This article is intended to arouse angry feelings in those who already predisposed to thinking that vote totals were hacked without providing any facts to back up the speculation. Also, Charles Pierce is not an expert on any of what he is writing about. Hack has two meanings....
It's clickbait, basically. Effective too, since I click on this dumb article every single time someone posts it here thinking it might contain actual, real evidence. But no. It's the same dumb article, back from the dead, over and over and over.
JDC
(10,133 posts)Rapid fire suggestion. All of us suspect this may have happened.
Demsrule86
(68,674 posts)will pay the price. It most certainly is not inflammatory.
cilla4progress
(24,766 posts)Believed this.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)Demsrule86
(68,674 posts)delisen
(6,044 posts)this year (the election referenced in this Esquire article.
Republican Secretary of State office immediately wiped data clean. Destroyed evidence.
Unfolding scandal. So hot Ga Republican Attorney General office withdrew from defending against the lawsuit.
Georgia has clung to the Diebold touchscreen machines with no paper trail
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Could get away with where ever they could.
I'm sure they did.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)sandensea
(21,664 posts)By Republicans, for Republicans.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)happen in 2018?
That's why I think the GOP is so confident they will retain both house and senate in 2018. Nothing has changed.
That is also why they are setting out to destroy all of our safety nets. They don't care about votes, because they can control the counts.
joanbarnes
(1,723 posts)onenote
(42,761 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)Mr farber knows and has proof for good number of states for 2016 election
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)leanforward
(1,077 posts)He has an interesting story to tell about vote tally, computer hacking, and some computer group out of Tennessee. Point here is election night with Carl Rove on Faux and CRove saying it was to soon to call. Case in point for Bradblog is Ohio.
FWIW and IMHO.
My position on the current administration is: treason. Any of our current politicians who accepted money from a lobbyist with connections to russian oligarchs: aiding and abetting.
diva77
(7,656 posts)The votes were shunted through a Republican server on election night, 2004 in Ohio, under Kenneth Blackwell, SOS Ohio and co-chair of Dubya's re-election campaign.
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/did_ohio_electi/
Did Ohio Election Data Run Through Republican Servers?
Election_ohioSlashdot is renewing a controversy that popped up previously but has been re-energized by the recent White House e-mail scandal.
Back in 2004 during the presidential election, the Ohio secretary of state web site, which reports election results after they come in from counties on election day, routed through a hosting company called Smartech Corporation in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Smartech also hosts a range of sites for the Republican National Committee, among them the controversial gwb43.com domain that some White House officials are said to have used for correspondence to evade having their emails disclosed through public records requests.
As a Netcraft search shows, the Ohio SoS site was hosted by Smartech in Tennessee on November 3, 2004 (the election was November 2nd) but then reverted to a different Ohio-based host on November 5 through February 6, 2006.
This information made the rounds last year and now voting activists have seized it as evidence that the RNC controlled the votes on election night in Ohio and altered them. No one has explained how that would work. Hosting a web site that displays election results is not the same as changing votes that are tabulated and first reported at the county level.
Nonetheless, the fact that the SoS election results page passes through a host that is so closely connected to the RNC is worth noting. Its not a surprise, however, since former Ohio SoS Ken Blackwell was co-chair of President Bushs re-election campaign. The sleuths at epluribusmedia.org point out that Blackwells office revamped the election night reporting system to deliver faster results and handle more traffic and that included outsourcing the hosting on election night to Smartech, a firm that handles a lot of other business for the RNC.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)not a bit surprised
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Or if they aren't, they certainly don't want people snooping around too much. I wonder why? That being said, what could the GOP be doing right this minute to undermine future elections? With the GOP in control of everything, it scares the crap out of me.
It just seems odd to me that every time there's a crucial seat open for anything, the Republicans always seem to come out ahead. I'm not talking about state senators, representatives and elections of that nature. I'm talking about national seats in Congress, and for the office of President. I don't trust the upcoming election in Alabama at all!
Maybe I'm too paranoid about the GOP's and Russia's reach, but then again, maybe everyone else isn't paranoid enough.
triron
(22,020 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)....should give everyone chills and its something that I have thought about often and honestly had hoped was not a possibility. But it is. And that is frightening because we basically no longer have a democracy if its true.
triron
(22,020 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Doodley
(9,126 posts)blimablam
(121 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)This is important.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Lock up republican TreasonWeasels and their russian bedmates.