Esquire: Russians may have hacked vote totals

[triron]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55603/russia-hack-voting-totals/

[spanone]

1. why not? K&R...

[emulatorloo]

2. K&R for the Greatest Page.

About to dig into Pierce's article, thanks for the link.

[FreeState]

3. Older article - any updates? N/T

[BadgerMom]

22. June 2017

I noticed, too. I’d love an update.

[spooky3]

4. This was published in June. It would be good to get

an update from Pierce.

[bearsfootball516]

5. This article doesn't really say anything we didn't already know, and its headline is misleading

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]

6. Oh hell yes they altered the results

[greeny2323]

7. Inflammatory

That's just a reckless inflammatory article with no additional evidence that hasn't been written about many times before.

[angstlessk]

10. Inflammatory to whom?

[kcr]

36. To the crowd who think hacking is impossible and anyone who disagrees is wearing tinfoil

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]

37. What does 'inflammatory to whom' even mean?

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]

11. It kinda reads like it was written during an all-nighter

Rapid fire suggestion. All of us suspect this may have happened.

[Demsrule86]

38. Bulshit...no way the GOP asshat won and eventually it will come out and Trump and the GOP liars

will pay the price. It most certainly is not inflammatory.

[cilla4progress]

8. I've always

Believed this.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. I have never doubted this.....its too easy to accomplish for them not to be hacked

[Demsrule86]

39. I have never doubted it either.

[delisen]

12. Voters filed suit over machines in GA special election

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]

13. They did WHATEVER they

Could get away with where ever they could.
I'm sure they did.

[YOHABLO]

14. To think our voting machines are secure is ludicrous. Wake up folks.

[sandensea]

15. They were indeed DESIGNED to be easily hacked.

By Republicans, for Republicans.

[C Moon]

16. If this is true, what has changed since the stolen election? What confidence do we have this won't

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]

17. Been saying this for more than a year.

[onenote]

18. old article, essentially speculation.

[benld74]

19. Check unhack the vote.com

Mr farber knows and has proof for good number of states for 2016 election

[Gabi Hayes]

20. From their site, the summer hack story

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-07-31/hackers-demonstrate-how-vulnerable-voting-machines-are%3fcontext=amp

It took less than 90 minutes before a hacker was able to crack the poorly-secured Wi-Fi on one voting machine (which is, thankfully, outdated and was apparently last used in 2015); another programmed a machine to play Rick Astley’s ghastly song, “ Never Gonna Give You Up.” Imagine casting your vote on Election Day and getting rickrolled for your trouble.

[leanforward]

21. Go back to the Bradblog.com in 2012

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]

33. Vote hacking could easily be an inside job in USA, not necessarily carried out by Russians.

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. It’s not a surprise, however, since former Ohio SoS Ken Blackwell was co-chair of President Bush’s re-election campaign. The sleuths at epluribusmedia.org point out that Blackwell’s 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]

23. kick

not a bit surprised

[Lil Missy]

24. Another one for the "No Shit Sherlock" Files.

[SergeStorms]

25. It seems the GOP is complicit with this ratfucking.

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]

26. I am also.

[SunSeeker]

27. K & R for exposure.

[Pachamama]

28. This...

....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]

30. That may be why even the Obama administration discounted the plausibility

[Laffy Kat]

29. So we'll get a re-do, right? nt

[Doodley]

31. There should be a multi-party inquiry.

[blimablam]

32. They ever do a follow low up?

[get the red out]

34. Hitting mainstream

This is important.

[Achilleaze]

35. republicans happy to commit treason against the USA

Lock up republican TreasonWeasels and their russian bedmates.