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FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
YAHOO News ^ | August 29, 2016 | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 08/29/2016 7:42:23 AM PDT by maggief

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.

The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyberintrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections.

Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cyber security experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cybersecurity; election; election2016; electionsystems; fbi; fraud; hacking; voterfraud; votingmachines
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To: maggief
Paper ballots. No early voting.

Make voting the first Saturday and Sunday after the first Monday in November.

61 posted on 08/29/2016 8:35:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: maggief

SO .. ARE WE TO ASSUME THESE PEOPLE ARE THE SAME ONES WHO HILLARY MADE DEALS WITH ON HER “HOME” SERVER.

So .. I guess we’re going to have a fight on our hands .. just to get someone other than Hillary elected to office.

However, I can’t help but wonder if the surge for Trump is so large .. there will be no way for the Hillary camp to accomplish their goal of cheating to get her into office.

Be on guard .. check out your polling places .. watch what people are doing .. if you see anything suspicious .. you need to call your County election people and give your report. Yes, you need to get involved .. this is the country you live in .. and you need to make sure the ability to vote legally is not taken away from us.


62 posted on 08/29/2016 8:40:30 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: maggief

Bullshit! This is a false flag making an excuse for Feds to get their hands into the voting as far as possible!


63 posted on 08/29/2016 8:43:09 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Truth29

You got that too? This story reeks like a week old homicide scene IMO.


64 posted on 08/29/2016 8:47:36 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Hoffer Rand
Think that's why there have been the stories about the DNC and all the other liberal groups getting hacked? To deflect liability from them. I can hear them now. "It wasn't us, we got hacked, too."

Now THAT is an interesting theory. It did not even have to be intentionally planned although that is possible too.

1. Dems plan to hack into election systems to rig elections and blame Russians. Plan to be carried out by Soros or other dem scum. Hillary does not necessarily even have to order it. Like Al Qaeda the dems have a common idealogy and can act independent without central marching orders

2. Disgruntled dem staffer hacks dem emails

3. Dems blame Russians.

4. Dems get rid of dem staffer

5. Soros initiates rigged election scheme

6. Dem's cover is they have been hacked too so it must have been Trump's Russian friends

#2-4 could have been a planned part of the scheme or something unexpected that just happened. Dems can make lemonade out of lemons.

65 posted on 08/29/2016 9:12:43 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Sacajaweau

Voting should be done the Monday following April 15th!

Look at a calendar - current voting occurs 6 months before/after tax day. That is by design!


66 posted on 08/29/2016 9:17:00 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: maggief

This is the “reason” the Feds will use to seize all election authority from the states. Power is being centralized in America.


67 posted on 08/29/2016 9:22:41 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes, limited time for voting makes it harder to cheat, I like your idea. The only change I would make is that it should be on December 30, and the person who wins takes office on Jan 1st. The time between the voting and the new president taking office was understandable during the time people didn’t have cars and planes, but now we can get from place to place very rapidly. The lame duck time is too dangerous with unstable and criminal people in office.

I would also like to see Washington DC turned into a historical museum and the Reps and Senators be based out of their state and local districts and not even go to DC except for, maybe, a one month period in which they go there to vote on the bills. These would have been published and widely available to the local voters who could let their congresscritters know what they want.


68 posted on 08/29/2016 9:33:30 AM PDT by Ann de IL
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To: ColdOne

>>voter fraud

Ask B1Bob Dornan about that.

http://www.google.com/#q=B1+Bob+Dornan+Sanchez+Voter+Fraud

Amazing how the tyrannical majority just doesn’t seem to care about its Useful Idiot role in facilitating the politics of the dialect herd.


69 posted on 08/29/2016 9:50:35 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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Since when was the DNC headquarters operate out of a foreign country?


70 posted on 08/29/2016 9:53:29 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: maggief

Electronic voting is untrustworthy and even if there were massive calls for paper ballots only, the government would find excuses why paper ballots can’t be implemented nationwide before November. The government will impede every effort to have a fair election, just like the commies in Venezuela are impeding a recall election there. I have very little hope anymore.


71 posted on 08/29/2016 10:18:50 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: maggief

Well. Maybe Putin’s meddling will offset the Democrats’
voter fraud aimed at getting Hillary elected. That’s got
to be what it’s all about for “Jeh” Johnson.


72 posted on 08/29/2016 10:30:59 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: maggief

If I were Trump, I would ask each person who votes for him, throughout the country, to sent a letter to him documenting their vote, and where they voted. This should be accompanied by a text, or an email, or a tweet. This would have a disquieting effect on anyone playing with the numbers, because it could directly refute whatever numbers they post for Trump, and it would be very hard to refute shenanigans if the election numbers and the numbers sent to Trump don’t match up. Just the idea that they can prove tampering should be enough to make those who would try to do so think twice.


73 posted on 08/29/2016 10:31:15 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: OrangeHoof
Sending alerts like this is laying out the cover story for a Trump victory in November. There’s no other way to interpret this.

Precisely.

74 posted on 08/29/2016 11:27:32 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Pride in the USA
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75 posted on 08/29/2016 12:09:49 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: maggief

Obama/Jarrett/Lynch/Comey setting up the takeover of elections by the Fed....


76 posted on 08/29/2016 12:21:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("They only smear who they fear." --Diamond and Silk)
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To: ColdOne

Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ wikileaks or Russia and they’ll give Trump 60 percent jk


77 posted on 08/29/2016 12:37:11 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: maggief

I heard on the news this morning that Arizona data base was hacked into. I can not remember the other state.


78 posted on 08/29/2016 12:51:54 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: maggief

Foreign Hackers

euphemism for Democrat Operatives.


79 posted on 08/29/2016 1:12:30 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: Irish Eyes

Illinois


80 posted on 08/29/2016 1:15:17 PM PDT by maggief
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