Posted on 01/22/2015 3:10:25 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Chinese government hacked into U.S. defense systems. What makes Americans think that the Chinese—or the Russians, the Iranians or other foreign interests—are not also hacking into U.S. elections?
They may well be doing it on a large scale. But Americans have no way to know. We have certainly made it easy for them, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, handed down five years ago.
U.S. law prohibits foreign nationals from making a contribution or donation in connection with any federal, state or local election. The prohibition includes contributions to candidates and political action committees, as well as foreign financing of a 501(c)(4) group’s “independent expenditures”—the campaign activities that explicitly support or oppose a candidate—or any of its “electioneering communications” (TV ads appearing close to an election and mentioning a candidate).
But it is easy to violate these regulations without detection. …
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...
I don’t see why this is a problem. Remove sensitive computers off the internet. Have a sneaker net interface instead.
The Uniparty can’t have that, now.
All it takes is one corrupt or compromised USB drive, and the entire system is broken.
I worked the polls back in 2012. I was shuttling all of the paper (scanned) ballots from the districts to the SoE HQ. Included in the boxes were between 5 to 25 hard drives used to electronically catalog the votes. The first thing they would do when the drives came in would be to plug them into a machine that reads the drives, tallies the votes, and puts the results into databases for reporting. If any one of those “sneaker net” hard drives was compromised by a ne’er-do-well, the infection would spread into the central system and could manipulate the data being presented or the data already presented. The paper ballots are there as a backup, but since most folks don’t question the election results outside of a close race, those ballots get shuttled off to long-term storage.
We need to go back to hand-vote paper ballots, IMO. Something as important as the American vote is not something to chance.
They’re not talking about computers here ... they’re talking about setting up a false-front organization for the purpose of donating money to elections.
As I said in Post #5 ... they’re not talking about computers here.
Some organizations that spend heavily on U.S. elections, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, acknowledge that they receive money from foreign donors. They claim, however, that they segregate the donations from funds used for political purposes. …What a shocker.
well D’uh! Of course they are. The democrats have been doing it for years.
Ping.
And go find a pay phone today.
Yeah, money not being fungible and all, that’s completely on the up and up.
I’ve stated the same many times. Agreed 100%.
But the average person is far too ignorant about this. It would take a leadership decision to make the change; ‘leader’...isn’t that the joke of the century...
(joke’s on us)
Agreed with your comment as well.
The same applies in the latter of my #13.
The ChiComs have virtually the entire plans for the F-35. An election roll/log? Pfft. Nothing.
I was reading about that earlier today. The PLA Air Force’s Chengdu J-20 raised no eyebrows in DC certainly. Criminal lives matter instead.
Twas on the Jon Batchelor show, yesterday, hour 2, a few minutes in. The ChiComs have stolen about 50 terabytes worth of design data on the F-35 and boasted that they have produced an equivalent fighter in 19 months. We only took 15+ years.
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