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In reply to the discussion: Kamala Harris in 2020: CA on track to hold primary in March instead of June [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,057 posts)28. From the link
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Hackers successfully penetrated state-run online voter registration systems in 2016, triggering confusion and heated exchanges between voters, poll workers and poll watchers during Californias June 7 primary, Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said Friday.
I think that pretty quickly, as is sort of the case around our politics, partisanship got into it, Hestrin told The California Report. And frankly the victims of these changes were both Republicans and Democrats.
Hestrins investigation would ultimately show that hackers accessed voter registration information, indiscriminate of party, through the California Secretary of States election website, and changed some voters party affiliations. But because the state did not collect the IP addresses of the visits, theres no way to know where the hacker or hackers were based.
I think that pretty quickly, as is sort of the case around our politics, partisanship got into it, Hestrin told The California Report. And frankly the victims of these changes were both Republicans and Democrats.
Hestrins investigation would ultimately show that hackers accessed voter registration information, indiscriminate of party, through the California Secretary of States election website, and changed some voters party affiliations. But because the state did not collect the IP addresses of the visits, theres no way to know where the hacker or hackers were based.
Voter Registration is on the table and vulnerable to unAmerican activity.
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Kamala Harris in 2020: CA on track to hold primary in March instead of June [View all]
stopbush
Aug 2017
OP
One problem in the past has been the national party being against states moving their
stopbush
Aug 2017
#2
Agree that we need closed primaries. Unfortunately, the states get to decide that.
stopbush
Aug 2017
#18
yeah, Iowa's political issues are very different from the rest of the country
Blue_Adept
Aug 2017
#17
CA is THE most-representative state in the union, and in the world, for that matter.
stopbush
Aug 2017
#19
I wonder if it's smart to let Red states vote at all, as uneducated and drug addicted as they are
lostnfound
Aug 2017
#29
California has 1/10th of the US Population. 34 Million people. And bullshit it's "unrepresentative".
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2017
#39
I do not have an opinion as I have never even been in a state that has them; no actual experience
Not Ruth
Aug 2017
#13
CA has a paper trail ballot process. When you vote here, you get to see the paper ballot thru
stopbush
Aug 2017
#20
What does that have to do with the actual voting process being pretty much hack proof?
stopbush
Aug 2017
#27
Again we jump before a position becomes a fact...I doubt it will be easy to move to March.
CK_John
Aug 2017
#15
How strong is the CA GOP and will the media/sports industry be affected by a move to March.
CK_John
Aug 2017
#31
It also gives 49 other states a reason to block it. I just don't see it happening.
CK_John
Aug 2017
#34
No. It will weaken the NE and Midwest voting states, strengthen the southern vote.
VermontKevin
Aug 2017
#43