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40 States Aim to Thwart Russian Hacking in 2018
Newsmax ^ | 2-22-18 | Jane Blakemore

Posted on 03/03/2018 12:20:53 PM PST by spintreebob

Voter registration databases and vote-tabulation systems are maintained by state and local governments, not by any federal bureau.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: localgovernment; votefraud; voterregistration
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This type of ignorance and lack of fact checking by conservative media hurts our side.

The fact is that HAVA-Help America Vote Act gives FREE MONEY to state and local election boards to contract with Friends of Chris Dodd FOD to provide the hardware and software. FOD has more influence over our election system than anything else.

If a state or local election system is vulnerable to hacking by Russians, or by corrupt Americans, it is vulnerable because HAVA contractors are based on politics, not competence. What do people in Bangalore who code the software know about the American election system, let alone about the difference between different counties in the same state? What to non-citiznes who fly back and forth from Conneticut to Bangalore and who design the software know about our election system?

Why is Newsmax so ignorant of reality?

1 posted on 03/03/2018 12:20:53 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

But not illegal voters.


2 posted on 03/03/2018 12:22:11 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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Nully's modest proposal to end voter fraud:
• Paper ballots
• Purple fingers
• Mandatory free on demand BIOMETRIC (iris scan, nobody ever left their irises at a crime scene!) photo ID, with a database that instantly flags for arrest anyone seeking multiple IDs. Change of name? Simply have your old card voided when you apply for the new one.
• No precinct reports their totals until ALL precincts report they have totals. This prevents the last to report precinct captains from knowing how much to fudge a report to give a win to their preferred candidate while maintaining some slight semblance of credibility.
• Repeal Motor Voter.
• End same-day registration where it exists, and allow ample time between registration and election for vetting of credentials of registrants.
• Instantly deport any non-citizen who registers to vote.
• Put a little ⩍ next to the names of those registered voters with death certificates, and detain and put a 72 hour psychiatric hold anyone claiming to be a dead person...

3 posted on 03/03/2018 12:30:45 PM PST by null and void ("If you see something say something." "If we say something *DO* something!!!")
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Ah - “the Russians”.

Would these be the same Russians that Hillary Clinton sold uranium to, for nuclear weapons?


4 posted on 03/03/2018 12:33:52 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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[But not illegal voters.]

Of course not. That's the base for the Democrats

It's really simple. If Americans will note vote Democrat, Chuck Schumer will import illegal aliens from foreign countries, who will.


5 posted on 03/03/2018 12:35:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I hear the Russians are firmly opposed to voter id
So anyone who is colluding with Russia has to be against voter id


6 posted on 03/03/2018 12:39:24 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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And the other 17 (by Obama’s count) are taking direct action to stop the sky from falling.


7 posted on 03/03/2018 12:42:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: null and void

#1 on the list should be: “Wipe out all voter registrations every two years. Make everybody re-register in person.”


8 posted on 03/03/2018 12:44:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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They haven’t found a single Russian who voted in the 2016 election.


9 posted on 03/03/2018 12:45:41 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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The poor Russians... Every other country is free to meddle in US elections and they aren’t. It almost seems unfair.


10 posted on 03/03/2018 12:49:37 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hmmm, good point.


11 posted on 03/03/2018 12:50:12 PM PST by null and void ("If you see something say something." "If we say something *DO* something!!!")
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yup - this is just another way to funnel graft and kickbacks


12 posted on 03/03/2018 12:51:00 PM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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...plus the U.S. has meddled in other countries’ elections for decades. Isn’t payback fair?


13 posted on 03/03/2018 12:53:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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Funny, there was exactly zero “Russian hacking” of any vote machines in the 2016 election.
None.
However, Obama’s feds tried to get into several systems themselves.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3527703/posts


14 posted on 03/03/2018 12:59:57 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Re: “40 States Aim to Thwart Russian Hacking in 2018”

The first thing they will do is make it impossible for Conservatives to search for voter fraud in records that are currently open to public.

LOL!

All voter data must become permanently secret to protect our elections from feckless Russian Trolls!


15 posted on 03/03/2018 1:00:26 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Williams

Or dead ones.


16 posted on 03/03/2018 1:03:31 PM PST by EdnaMode
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Determining who is for and against Voter Fraud is revealed by asking two simple questions:

1.) Do you support purging voter rolls of dead people or people who are no longer residents of that state?

2.). Do you support Voter ID?

Democrats and all stripes of Leftists answer NO to both of these. There is your answer.

17 posted on 03/03/2018 1:04:17 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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IT sounds like a plan for the democrats improve their methods of vote fraud.


18 posted on 03/03/2018 1:05:58 PM PST by Revel
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I thought they caught Ivan Benhadski!


19 posted on 03/03/2018 1:16:44 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: null and void

I like it.


20 posted on 03/03/2018 1:19:38 PM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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