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USAToday | OpEd | Election hacking is going to happen. Here's what we can do now to protect our votes.
The first ballots of the 2018 mid-term elections will soon be cast, but many Americans will exercise this constitutional right without much confidence that their votes will be fairly and securely counted. Partisanship in Congress and bureaucratic delays have left voting even more vulnerable to the attacks that top intelligence officials say will accelerate in 2018. Meanwhile, irrefutable evidence has revealed that Russia engaged in a multifaceted attack on the 2016 election through information warfare, and that hackers also scanned or penetrated state election infrastructure in ways that could lead to manipulation of voter registration data -- and possibly change vote totals in 2018. We propose two stopgap measures that can be immediately implemented without waiting for funding or new legislation.

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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Mar 15th, 2018 at 06:12:55 PM EST
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https:/www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/15/trump-sanctions-russia-following-poisoning-b ritish-spy/427464002 :U.S. sanctions Russia for 2016 election interference and other cyber activity

https:/www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/15/russian-election-hacking-what-we-can-do-now-protec t-democracy-buell-demillo-hoke-column/393565002 :Election hacking is going to happen. Here's what we can do now to protect our votes.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Mar 15th, 2018 at 06:17:09 PM EST
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More election interference.
The election official was commenting on an article titled "Five Strategies of Protest Behavior at the Russian Presidential Elections," which was posted on the Russian-language website of German public news corporation Deutsche Welle (DW).

The article advised Russian voters to spoil their ballots, to take them home instead of casting them, or to shun the polls altogether. The authors also suggested that voters should apply to vote remotely and then not avail of the option, as well as voting for a candidate "that causes less negative emotions" in order to decrease the eventual winner's margin of victory.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu Mar 15th, 2018 at 06:18:14 PM EST
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crafty.

We ALL KNOW what happened to "spoiled" ballots, "hanging chads," provisional ballots, absentee ballots, and little ol' black church ladies in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 --don't we?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Mar 15th, 2018 at 07:42:36 PM EST
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