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DallasNE

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60. What Does This Mean In Practical Terms?
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:31 AM
Feb 2018

A simple FOI request will get you the same information. To do harm Russia would have to alter the data in some way. Did that happen?

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There it is. C Moon Feb 2018 #1
Registration databases, not vote counts but I suspect both were targeted and vulnerqble lostnfound Feb 2018 #3
There's some evidence that they created fake voters to mask the tabulators adding percentages. byronius Feb 2018 #7
Exactly! ChiTownDenny Feb 2018 #10
K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Feb 2018 #2
Please remember this name - Jeanette Manfra - we may hear it again... asiliveandbreathe Feb 2018 #4
Gee, lets name the "several States that were successfully penetrated" Wwcd Feb 2018 #5
And every Supreme Court Justice unjustly seated! BadgerMom Feb 2018 #37
THIS 🖕 AND IT IS A BIG ONE. AND planned long in advance Wwcd Feb 2018 #41
YES!! We deserve a "Do over" FakeNoose Feb 2018 #63
It was MUCH WORSE than these articles acknowledge and many more states were involved. pnwmom Feb 2018 #6
I think you're right. I think we may find out that the intrusion was extensive and may even have wiggs Feb 2018 #19
It likely DID affect vote totals - here's how (maybe I'm stating the obvious, but what the hell) groundloop Feb 2018 #24
That makes sense. Thanks, groundloop. nt pnwmom Feb 2018 #28
How many voters names were replaced with bots-4-trump? Wwcd Feb 2018 #40
The cheating was done in counties that were very close to 50/50 FakeNoose Feb 2018 #64
K&R Mike Niendorff Feb 2018 #51
More info - RandomAccess Feb 2018 #8
TOO BAD CONGRESS DIDN'T PASS SANCTIONS YET! BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #9
The entire White House is up to their fucking necks with Russians. mobeau69 Feb 2018 #11
This is why I am not putting all my hope into one basket called BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #15
Amen! BadgerMom Feb 2018 #39
I agree cilla4progress Feb 2018 #12
And something like 80,000 voters in Detroit and Flint showed up and voted but skipped ..... Botany Feb 2018 #57
And now Trump has a database with a lot of registered voter direct information... Honeycombe8 Feb 2018 #13
This is bad news for America Gothmog Feb 2018 #14
Gets worse JustAnotherGen Feb 2018 #54
they got a hold of voter info AlexSFCA Feb 2018 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author ResIpsa Feb 2018 #31
But.... but...but.... ehrnst Feb 2018 #17
And Russia could not have done this w/out help from inside America Botany Feb 2018 #18
Keep digging until you hit Cambridge Analytica. tinrobot Feb 2018 #20
Definitely stuffmatters Feb 2018 #22
Johnson over Feingold(Wisc) and Toomey over McGinty(Pa) were glaringly suspicous to me stuffmatters Feb 2018 #21
Yep, Russ led in the polls the entire time. n/t mobeau69 Feb 2018 #25
Russ was @ 90% of winning Botany Feb 2018 #29
YES BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author ResIpsa Feb 2018 #33
Has Johnson been repaying his debt recently? BadgerMom Feb 2018 #35
Jeh Johnson TRIED to tell the states the summer before the election BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author ResIpsa Feb 2018 #27
Yes. nt Susan Calvin Feb 2018 #46
I always wondered if Kentucky in 2015 was a trial run. (eom) StevieM Feb 2018 #30
Yes, and Gardener over Udall (Co) 2O14. The ? not "if" but "when" this partnership formed stuffmatters Feb 2018 #45
THE RUSSIANS COMMITTED AN ACT OF WAR, olddad56 Feb 2018 #32
K and R BadgerMom Feb 2018 #34
And SecState Tillerson says it's ongoing and we can't really do anything about it. trof Feb 2018 #36
So does this fall within the purview of Mr. Mueller's investigation? Mr. Ected Feb 2018 #38
I don't see why not. mobeau69 Feb 2018 #42
THis is not new. MSM was reporting this summer 2016. This is what prompted teh feds to offer Amaryllis Feb 2018 #43
Originally they were saying attacked. This is an admission of penetration. mobeau69 Feb 2018 #44
Well duh...nt 2naSalit Feb 2018 #47
But Putin said he didn't do it! SergeStorms Feb 2018 #48
Tillerson Smugly Announced Nothing is Being Done to Protect Our Elections dlk Feb 2018 #49
What is the legal basis for holding a new election? brooklynite Feb 2018 #50
I think this predicament we're in is a national emergency that needs to be addressed immediately. YOHABLO Feb 2018 #52
Without qualified techs in govt, it's serial numbered paper ballots across 50 states. Clean up the ancianita Feb 2018 #53
We need an audit on the whole election. Botany Feb 2018 #56
The problem for any audit is 50 different state level jurisdictions. Only the SCOTUS can call for a ancianita Feb 2018 #58
This is above my pay grade but a focused forensic audit on certain vote data might be doable Botany Feb 2018 #59
Also, the state voting commission of Virginia. ancianita Feb 2018 #61
If they penetrated the Secretary of State's servers to get at voter data....that means they Rene Feb 2018 #55
Sounds like an IT nightmare. Especially across 50 states. ancianita Feb 2018 #62
What Does This Mean In Practical Terms? DallasNE Feb 2018 #60
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