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pirateshipdude

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Sat Jun 24, 2017, 12:56 PM Jun 2017

Election Results Officially Look Invalid After Voting Machine Hack Confirmed Across 39 States [View all]

The new details, buttressed by a classified National Security Agency document recently disclosed by the Intercept, show the scope of alleged hacking that federal investigators are scrutinizing as they look into whether Trump campaign officials may have colluded in the efforts. But they also paint a worrisome picture for future elections: The newest portrayal of potentially deep vulnerabilities in the U.S.’s patchwork of voting technologies comes less than a week after former FBI Director James Comey warned Congress that Moscow isn’t done meddling.’

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‘Such operations need not change votes to be effective. In fact, the Obama administration believed that the Russians were possibly preparing to delete voter registration information or slow vote tallying in order to undermine confidence in the election. That effort went far beyond the carefully timed release of private communications by individuals and parties.’

Despite ongoing false claims by the president of the United States as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia made no such attempts (Trump even tried to lay the blame on China, or possibly an overweight man sitting at home in his bed), few U.S. officials privy to the evidence compiled still have doubts.

A recent leak by a federal contractor with security clearance in Georgia, Reality Winner, showed that the NSA already had evidence that Russia attempted to hack into voting machines in Georgia. Although intelligence officials are remain unconvinced that any votes were changed, the new evidence that those same attempts occurred in all but 11 states in the U.S. raises all new concerns.

http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/06/24/just-trump-election-phony-voting-machine-hack-confirmed-across-39-states/

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