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Takket

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5. our government has shown no desire or effort to stop it..........

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 07:32 PM

Jul 2017

no legislation, no hearings of voting machine vulnerabilities, no efforts to work with twitter/facebook on ways to stop fake news.......

so, why shouldn't the russians try and hack our elections?

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Possibility of much bigger hack of US election system by Russia or others in 2018/2020 [View all] kpete Jul 2017 OP

Trump is handing it all over to Putin as we speak. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #1

The Cons This Time? Me. Jul 2017 #2

of course; if anybody thinks 2016 was a one-time thing, they are seriously deluding themselves. nt TheFrenchRazor Jul 2017 #3

As Tip O'nell said "all politics is local" mitch96 Jul 2017 #4

our government has shown no desire or effort to stop it.......... Takket Jul 2017 #5

DEFCON 2017 takes place at month's end Best_man23 Jul 2017 #6

Thank you. Looking forward to reading more about this. mia Jul 2017 #7

we need a real life, white hat election hack, voluntarily revealed afterwards, to prove to people, TheFrenchRazor Jul 2017 #9

Repukes should be mad, they might be replaced by Manchurian Candidates next time NightWatcher Jul 2017 #8