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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]rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)SOOOOOO happy that Rachel covered the Dallas County information! She was spot on about the political landscape. I lived in one of the (unhacked)red counties she referred to...recently moved but my new county is just as red, still north of Dallas.
Saw this article a while back...and given that Harris County/Houston is one of the blue Texas areas, it's making sense the Russians had their noses in stuff down there, too.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/21/texas-russian-official-dont-tread-our-polling-plac/
Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos has said no to Russian officials request to watch Texans vote, according to correspondence obtained by The Texas Tribune.
Please note that only persons authorized by law may be inside of a polling location during voting. All other persons are not authorized and would be committing a class C misdemeanor crime by entering, Cascos wrote last month in a letter to Alexander K. Zakharov, the Russian consul general in Houston. We are unable to accommodate your request to visit a polling station."
Cascos was responding to Zakharovs request, dated Sept. 24, that Texas allow someone in his office inside a polling station on Election Day with the goal of studying the U.S. experience in organization of voting process.
In his letter, Cascos instead offered to arrange an informational meeting between the Russians and local officials. Alicia Pierce, Cascos' spokeswoman, said Friday that no such meeting was arranged.