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In reply to the discussion: Anyone watching Maddow ?! US Cities were given a black list of Russian IP address's !!!! [View all]wildeyed
(11,243 posts)But yeah, there was a problem. Electronic devices that check voters in malfunctioned so they switched to paper. NC GOP freaked completely out because the Durham early vote came in really late. Durham/Chapel Hill is a huge college area that goes Democratic. So NC GOP thought they were running way ahead of forecasts because so many Dems vote early and usually the early totals hit first. There was big disappointment when those blue votes were counted late and it turned out that McCrory lost.
They audited those totals TO DEATH. The GOP screamed about voter fraud. They refused to concede the election. Then they scream more about fraud. The NC GOP operatives STILL mutter about it constantly on Twitter. But even the GOP-appointed head of the board of elections told the McCrory and his GOP goons to piss off. No way the GOP would have asked for all of those recounts and scrutiny if THEY were they perpetrators of election fraud in Durham.
Here is an article about the malfunction in Durham: http://abc11.com/politics/many-frustrated-by-durham-voting-problems/1598952/
Here is the article I mentioned that states NC was NOT hacked. It was posted by a democracy group that has deep and legitimate roots in NC: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2017-06-19/check-for-russian-hacking-efforts-find-no-nc-targets
The GOP did steal the elections in NC. But they did it with propaganda, gerrymandering and voter suppression. It's like we found a dead body with the murder weapon right there beside it, but people keep looking for the murder weapon. It's RIGHT THERE. We KNOW how they did this.
Are they THINKING about tampering with the actual vote in the future? Absolutely! But there is not credible poof that it happened in 2016, at least none that I have seen yet.