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In reply to the discussion: The Russians just had to flip 40,000 votes in three States [View all]robersl
(83 posts)They didn't attack the voting machines, they did it the Republican way, by making voters ineligible.
They attacked the voter registration databases, and jimmied the data in Democratic precincts to make people unable to vote. By simply flipping your zip code, you would not show up on the voter rolls at your precinct when you tried to sign in. And if 7 out of 10 voters at that polling place were going to vote Democratic, the Russians gain 4 votes for every 10 they knock out.
And the beauty of the scheme is, the Democrats spend the next 2 years beating themselves up for not showing up to vote instead of sniffing out how the attack went down.
Feb. 7, 2018
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/russians-penetrated-u-s-voter-systems-says-top-u-s-n845721
"We were able to determine that the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the Russian government."
NBC News reported in Sept. 2016 that more than 20 states had been targeted by the Russians.