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In reply to the discussion: "It increasingly looks like Russian hackers may have affected actual vote totals." [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)That is a horrible article. The guy who wrote it is a sports writer and sometimes pundit. If he has actual proof that hacking effected the vote totals, I would love to see it, but that article is stuff we knew already repackaged with a bunch of innuendo.
They DID steal the election. Through homegrown voter suppression and weaponize propaganda from a hostile foreign power. We KNOW this already. This is how they did it. Dunno why people are hunting around for more reasons.
There is ZERO doubt in my mind that Russia is working toward disrupting elections. I doubt they would go after the actual vote totals. We would be able to identify the interference and there would be grounds to invalidate the results. But if they hack the voter registration roles on the day of the election? Chaos.
BTW, Russian hackers are going after the power grid too. This is another thing we know for sure. What if they unleashed rolling blackouts on key Democratic districts causing chaos and long waits? That would also be waaaay more effective than any direct hack of vote totals. And people would be inclined to say, oh well, deal with it. Just like they did with the propaganda attack.