The Russians just had to flip 40,000 votes in three States

[pnwmom]

139. Again.

I said: "There hasn't been a single report in the media here about anyone showing up to vote, and being told they weren't registered."

Your original statement was clearly wrong and many MSM outlets show that -- to a degree that invalidates your point.

“It could be thousands, but probably not tens of thousands."

You didn't say you were looking for "rock solid proof" of "thousands." The newspaper's report of this woman's account, based on her knowledge at the time, certainly qualifies as a "report."

What we know, based on conventional MSM sources, is there was chaos in election activities "across the state," but the worst in heavily Democratic Durham. We'll never know how many people gave up standing in line while systems were down; how many were handed a provisional ballot and came back on another day with enough information to get accepted; how many were handed a provisional ballot and never followed up; and how many weren't even given the option of a provisional ballot. On the basis of this lack of certainty, because of NC's own chaos that night, you want to believe nothing really happened.

But anyone who was watching TV on election night, except for you, apparently, was aware that North Carolina stood out among the states that was having voting problems, and Durham in particular.

And here's yet another of those non-existent reports -- this one from September almost a year later. Federal and state officials are avoiding investigating security problems involved in the software. The State of North Carolina is keeping confidential the report it commissioned, mostly based on interviews with poll workers, on the problems in Durham.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/russia-election-hacking.html

Intelligence officials in January reassured Americans that there was no indication that Russian hackers had altered the vote count on Election Day, the bottom-line outcome. But the assurances stopped there.

Government officials said that they intentionally did not address the security of the back-end election systems, whose disruption could prevent voters from even casting ballots.

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In Durham, a local firm with limited digital forensics or software engineering expertise produced a confidential report, much of it involving interviews with poll workers, on the county’s election problems. The report was obtained by The Times, and election technology specialists who reviewed it at the Times’ request said the firm had not conducted any malware analysis or checked to see if any of the e-poll book software was altered, adding that the report produced more questions than answers.

Neither VR Systems — which operates in seven states beyond North Carolina — nor local officials were warned before Election Day that Russian hackers could have compromised their software. After problems arose, Durham County rebuffed help from the Department of Homeland Security and Free & Fair, a team of digital election-forensics experts who volunteered to conduct a free autopsy. The same was true elsewhere across the country.

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While only a fraction of voters were turned away because of the e-poll book difficulties — more than half of the county cast their ballots days earlier — plenty of others were affected when the state mandated that the entire county revert to paper rolls on Election Day. People steamed as everything slowed. Voters gave up and left polling places in droves — there’s no way of knowing the numbers, but they include more than a hundred North Carolina Central University students facing four-hour delays.

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Her account of the troubles matches complaints logged in the Election Incident Reporting System, a tracking tool created by nonprofit groups. As the problems mounted, The Charlotte Observer reported that Durham’s e-poll book vendor was Florida-based VR Systems, which Ms. Greenhalgh knew from a CNN report had been hacked earlier by Russians. “Chills went through my spine,” she recalled.