Russians attempted to hack elections systems in Wisconsin and 20 other states in the run-up to last year's presidential election, Wisconsin officials said Friday.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified states of the attempted breaches on Friday, said Michael Haas, director of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The attempt in Wisconsin was unsuccessful, he said.
According to the Associated Press, Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and Washington were also among the 21 states targeted.
Wisconsin's voter registration system was targeted, as were election systems in other states that have a presence on the internet, Haas said. Haas said he did not know which states other than Wisconsin were part of the attempt by what Homeland Security officials told him were “Russian government cyber actors."
I am not at all convinced that these were only "attempts."
I think there had to be some successful hacks, and I would not to at all surprised to learn that there were a number of them.
I also think that ultimately we will learn that there more than 21 states targeted.
As I have said before, we are still at the beginning of all this and it is certain that there is so much, much more we are going to learn.
OK, but according to President Dotard, that's not important. What is important and must be stopped is NFL players protesting racism. Priorities, man.
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DeleteYou know what makes me the sickest about tantrum Don? He throws around swear words like he's in a bar, and KIDS are listening. The children of parents who voted for this creep are thinking that these words are acceptable in daily conversation. My own grandkids think he's crazy, and no one in our house listens to him, but when I catch clips, I am more and more appalled. "Respect the office," we are told by his supporters. When will HE?
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DeleteI would not be surprised to find that North Carolina was hacked, as it was highly unusual to elect a Democratic Governor over the incumbent Republican Gov. while electing a Republican president.
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Anything that makes things easier for election officials to do things without being physically present makes it easier for election hackers to do things without being physically present.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMq8DDACgfw
O/T ol Walker is going to tax the poor and working class people.
ReplyDeleteA poster on ADN asked why they don't tax those who play the stock market and rental incomes?
Who was saying here that ol Sarah has rental income? Here we go again. Walker needs to RESIGN.
They were all swing states and turning blue and purple. They hacked different agencies and depts. County depts. and government depts. They intercepted payroll and invoices. They created chaos in voter registration, early voting, overseas voting, electoral voting, absentee voting, etc. They hacked into universities and customer rewards. They hacked utilities and cell phones. They created dangerous fake news. Republicans changed voting district lines, some went carpetbagging. There are corrupt employees in some of these state depts. and areas. Yesterday the emergency broadcasting system in southern California told people that devastation is coming to them and the voice sounded like hitler. Some hacker hacked the emergency broadcast system. These assholes are not through be on guard. The insane rapture t bags and constitutional loons are aiding the international republican party of con artist and lousy actors. Look for the common threads. It will be the white nationalist in each of those states attempting to carry out the agenda of hate and division.
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""Together with China we'll continue to strive for a reasonable approach and not an emotional one like when children in a kindergarten start fighting and no-one can stop them,"
If I were N.K. - Iran - Russia, I would be pointing those missiles UP. NASA said an asteroid was close to make them send alerts.
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"“We need to let Americans know how critical this is,” Reiner explained. “Not only the disinformation campaign, the hacking of DNC and Podesta and all that, but cyber warfare and what it can do. This is a new form of warfare, we are at war in a cyber war and we don’t know how yet to defend ourselves. We need that 9/11-type commission so we can understand what happened to us and protect ourselves in the future.”" “Everything with Trump is about him. He doesn’t care about anything except him.”
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{Note Bannon receives residuals from Seifeld and Rob's wife took the cover photo of dRUMPF's: Art of the Deal}
I'd say almost a year after the fact is hardly timely in informing these states of an attempted hack.
ReplyDeleteNot only is our Federal Government doing nothing about this, they are eliminating the agency that would have done something.
Instead, they are going whole hog for voter suppression.
"Our Government" is not the current people occupying our buildings. Trumps people are ruining our government. Voter suppression is part of their hateful agenda. And it has failed too.
DeleteI remember trump screaming into the microphone. "We need the stats, get the stats, where are the numbers?" Get Hillarys emails Russia. They were adjusting polls and playing games then. Go back and listen to every word out of that lying pos sob nasty pie hole at the trump rallies. Trump gave it away the entire campaign. He is a professional LIAR, con artist and lousy actor. He rigged the election and colluded with our enemy. A disgusting traitor to America. He will never be a legit USA President. Never.
DeleteHeard on the news last night that an attempt was made to hack Alaska, but it doesn't appear to have been successful.
ReplyDeleteI firmly believe they did hack into some states voting systems it will just take a longer for the public to be informed of their success if we are even told the truth. That electoral college VS popular vote thing just does not make sense with out some tweaking somewhere.
ReplyDeleteA majority of states have a "majority rules" electoral strategy, meaning if a candidate of either party wins the popular then the electoral must follow suit with all of their votes. There were key states that Hillary lost by a very small margin, historically blue states, that had to cast all of their votes for Trump when he won the popular. She lost the election by only 88,000 votes when you take into account the traditional blue states that she lost the popular in.
DeleteIt actually makes perfect sense if you have even any understanding of the electoral system at all and an understanding of swing stated vs states that are a lock.
DeleteSo now dotard trump is fighting the NFL NBA FBI CIA FCC FEC FAA NK UK HLS UN IRS MEX ABC NBC CBS MSN CNN and everyone else on earth. The guy is dangerously disgusting.
ReplyDeleteIt's rather kind of the Russians to let Hillary win the popular yet lose the electoral.
ReplyDeleteIn reality if they wanted to not be "found out" they should have made a clean sweep for Trump, yet they somehow counldn't manage that with all of their "infiltration"?
Why did they let her win? Probably because they weren't as influential as people are giving them credit for.
Or they realized that according to state voting laws which do winner take all just manipulate the vote in the right states and there ya go. Russia does not fill with idiots their intel and foreign service agencies.
DeleteCentury of spying folks. ;)
DeleteSome people don't really comprehend all of the news.Russia truly expected Hillary to win,the plan was to do enough damage to de-legitimize her presidency.If Trump got elected,so much the better.
DeleteIn response to Anonymous 3:22 PM, if the popular vote is vastly different than all the preelection polls people will get suspicious. Also there is a thing called exist polling. Russia knew that they could only tweak votes just enough to avoid suspicions and likely avoided massive states like California where totals outnumbered other states. I also suspect they may not necessarily have hacked voting totals in certain swing states but rather targeted voter registration and suppression efforts as well as mass fraudulent absentee ballots.
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