23 New Election links - 2016 Election hacking confirmed - NSA, DHS, and Letter from Reid, Pelosi, Ryan and McConnell; CICJ Book and Support links, CA, AZ and FL updates

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Our Elections have been hacked - NBC, AP, ABC, Bloomberg, etc stories

9-29-2016 - NBCNEWS - Hackers Target Election Systems in 20 States  - There have been hacking attempts on election systems in more than 20 states — far more than had been previously acknowledged — a senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News.

9-13-2016 - NBCNEWS - NSA Chief: Potential Russian Hacking of U.S. Elections a Concern - The head of the National Security Agency said Tuesday that the potential for Russia to harm the U.S. electoral process in the upcoming general election is a concern.

8-29-2016 - NBCNEWS - Russians Hacked Two U.S. Voter Databases, Officials Say - Hackers based in Russia were behind two recent attempts to breach state voter registration databases, fueling concerns the Russian government may be trying to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News. The breaches included the theft of data from as many as 200,000 voter records in Illinois, officials say.

10-1-2016 ABCNEWS - Over 20 states' voter registration systems have been hacked, officials say - It’s been a few months since Donald Trump invited Russia to look into Hillary Clinton’s email servers, and just a few days since he accused a 400-pound hacker of being behind the attack on the DNC earlier this summer. But all “joking” aside, cybersecurity is becoming a more relevant and recent issue than ever this election cycle. On Friday, a Homeland Security Department official revealed that hackers targeted the voter registration systems in over 20 states in the last few months, perhaps adding more fuel to the fire that is the mistrust in the election system this cycle.  Sources told ABC News that of the attempted attacks on the voter registration systems, four were ultimately compromised. Russia is suspected to be behind the malfeasance.

10-3-2016 - Legal Insurrection  - DHS: Hackers Targeted 21 Election Systems in 21 States - The FBI provided “eight separate IP addresses” and thinks they may have been linked since the hackers used one address in both the attacks. The department recognized one address since it “surfaced before in Russian criminal underground hacker forums.” Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer for cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect, told Yahoo News that “the method of attack on one of the state election systems — including the types of tools used by the hackers to scan for vulnerabilities and exploit them — appears to resemble methods used in other suspected Russian state-sponsored cyber attacks, including one just this month on the World Anti-Doping Agency.”  However, the tools are not very sophisticated, but “very effective,” which is why “national governments or their proxies” use them.

10-1-2016 - Bloomberg - Wary of Election Hacks, U.S. Urges States to Get Security Help - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is urging state and local election officials to seek assistance from the federal government to fend off cyber attacks that could be used to manipulate the results of the November presidential elections. The agency is ready to provide any assistance to help states secure their systems, if they request it, Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security, said in a statement Saturday. Threats are rising that criminals will use cyber attacks to try to disrupt the administration of U.S. elections, the agency said.

“These challenges aren’t just in the future -- they are here today,” Johnson said in the statement. “In recent months, malicious cyber-actors have been scanning a large number of state systems, which could be a preamble to attempted intrusions. In a few cases, we have determined that malicious actors gained access to state voting-related systems.” Johnson’s statement is in response to a Sept. 28 letter from the top Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate to the National Association of State Election Directors, urging states to take advantage of public resources available to help them secure their systems.

9-28-2016 Letter from Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to the National Association of State Election Directors MUST READ- "Today, the states face the challenge of malefactors that are seeking to use cyberattacks to disrupt the administration of our elections. We urge the states to take full advantage of the robust public and private sector resources available to them to ensure that their network infrastructure is secure from attack." [editors note:] Something simple and deeply troubling about this letter.

CICJ, Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, book and support Links

5-16-2016 - Columbus Free Press - Book Review: Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, THE STRIP & FLIP SELECTION OF 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft - according to the article: "THE STRIP & FLIP SELECTION OF 2016: Five Jim Crows & Electronic Election Theft inspires, mandates, angers, mystifies, amazes, and revolts readers enough, like pepper spray, like a shot of Red Bull that, as I read it, I could hardly keep my seat to write this review."

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National, FL, AZ Election Issues

9-5-2016 Salon.com - “There’s no such thing as a victimless billionaire”: Inside the shadowy voter fraud conspiracy that’s “still in progress” Greg Palast uncovers voter suppression beneath alleged fraud in new documentary, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” - Greg has a lot to say about the Interstate Crosscheck process to purge voters. This is covered in his RS article. He has a petition to sign. - Here is an article on it in AZ: AZ Officials Deny Crosscheck System Targets Minority Names - Over the years more and more people are aware of election fraud. Naked Capitalism has articles about the need for paper ballots publicly counted and follows the issue. The Bernie campaign educated many people about the issue.

When even a politician who is an actual member of the democratic party, and then John Kerry also a democratic do not want to challenge the US voting system, it was probably too much to expect that Bernie who was not a democrat and challenged the entire political establishment, that in his uprising, too much to expect that he would also have forced the issue of election integrity. The corruption is now so deep, and the stakes are so high – e.g., TPP, and the establishment likes the way things are, that it doesn’t look like any meaningful action will take place in the near term.

The Native American uprising and their dog bites like those on the blacks in the south 50 years ago, and the new activism across many issues, and …. who knows

9-7-2016 update from trustvote.org article by Lori Grace that exit polls showed Bernie won CA - Lori ecounts the stolen elections that were not challenged – asked Gore about 2000 and he was worried it would cause a revolution and he didn’t have the energy for it

I sat with with a small group of people together Al Gore one day in 2006 as a Climate Project trainee and asked him why he did not push for being president since he felt that the election was stolen. He said to us that he would have caused a revolution and just did not have the stamina to survive what would ensue.

Some of the lack of energy is because the Republicans spent years going after Clinton every which way and Gore did not want to get gored. We learn today on a post on Naked Capitalism that Clinton’s change in tax policy helped fuel the rise of CEO pay

9-7-2016 - Cincinatti Free Press - Distrust of 2016’s Hackable Election Is a Media Landslide With Just One Solution: Hand-counted Paper Ballots - New article by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman- Finally, the major for-profit media is approaching consensus that it’s easy to hack U.S. political elections. Even candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are raising unprecedented doubts – from very different directions – about the reliability of the upcoming vote count. Ultimately, there is just one solution: universal hand-counted paper ballots, with carefully protected voter registration rolls, and a transparent chain of custody.

The corporate media and the Democrats are obsessed with the “Russians.” Donald Trump rants about a mythological army of voters voting multiple times. But the real threat to our election system comes from private for-profit corporations that register voters, control voter databases, then count and report the vote with secret proprietary software and zero transparency, accountability, or recourse.

In other words, many people now know that voting machines are easy to hack. Here is a link to that article http://columbusfreepress.com/article/distrust-2016%E2%80%99s-hackable-election-media-landslide-just-one-solution-hand-counted-paper

9-8-2016 - The United States: The Country That Can’t Count an Election Right - ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT - Bob mentioned that Greg Palast is looking for funding for widespread distribution of his movie so it can qualify for the Oscars this year and can be in theaters across the country. Greg wrote the introduction to Bob & Harvey’s recent book and they have worked together for years

9-9-2016- Robert Fitrakis: Sanders May Have Lost Due to Election Fraud:
Robert Fitrakis says that the partisan firms which manage election data and technology targeted young Sanders supporters to ensure a Clinton victory

9-19-2016 - Attorneys who filed DNC class action lawsuit have made a public records demand to the Supervisors of Elections for Broward and Miami-Dade counties to conduct an audit of the Wasserman Schultz and Canova primary race. 

http://jampac.us/2016/09/19/fl23congressaudit/

Jared Beck: “We have received concerns from members of the public regarding the accuracy of the results. In order to best address these concerns, we believe that a comprehensive, independent audit is necessary. At this stage of our investigation, we would emphasize that we are not drawing conclusions.

“To conduct a rigorous audit will entail significant expense. We are confident that we can raise the necessary funds in order to complete this investigation, but we are going to need the public’s help with this. Maintaining the integrity of our elections is integral to our democratic process.”

9-10-2016 - 1M to 7.2M voters may lose their right to vote in NOV because of Republican Controlled Crosscheck – 85% of whom are likely persons of color – SAT 9-10-2016 Election Updates – GA, VA, OH, NC, and perhaps 25+ more states

CA Update

Privately funded exit poll in 3 CA Counties showed a reported Sanders Win by 3.1% was really a Sanders Win by 7.5% - likely Sanders won CA election

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-Greed is not a virtue.
-Socialism: the radical idea of sharing.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

The media created Trump, and now they are trying to destroy him. The media ignored and then tried to destroy Bernie. The media anointed Hillary, and now that there is proof ONLY the Democratic polls were rigged, the Democrats and their media are once again pedung the Clinton talking piints and covering Hillary's ass.

When the Clintons robbed Bernie vote by vote, state by state, we were Told to get the tinfoil off our heads. Now you want us to believe it is the Russians who closed polling places, created BernieBro, and gave the finger to his delegates thereby rigging the election to anoint Hillary. What utter bullshit. Take your media conspiracy stories back to ToP to join the rest of your Clinton fantasies. NO, NEVER Hillary, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

snoopydawg's picture

Well said dkmitch, thanks.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

We can give it to Hillary - she'll make it disappear.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

thought the "Russian hacker" links were more to prove that our election systems are easily hackable, and that this is the spin the establishment wants to put on that.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Bisbonian's picture

Now you want us to believe it is the Russians who closed polling places, created BernieBro, and gave the finger to his delegates thereby rigging the election to anoint Hillary. What utter bullshit.

Bullshit.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

Thanks for saying pretty much what I was thinking, only without the swearing.

But surely the author, who only posted the media propaganda links, isn't silly enough to believe that 'The Russians Did It!'?

Although it's true that no sane anyone outside of America wants to have to deal with the lying, cheating front-runners in this election, and the Russian government would be no different from others in this respect.

Also occurs to me that if the NSA admits that it can't track and prevent the hacking of elections by anyone, even foreign governments, because it's so busy spying on ALL of the ordinary citizens, maybe that huge wasted privatized taxpayer expense can be slashed? The money could go into public internet services.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

earthling1's picture

Won't hurt much.
When Hillary loses they will blame it on the "russians" and demand a new "election".
The Billionaire class will not be denied. They have everything under control.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Not Henry Kissinger's picture

are not hackable.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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Are not hackable. Otherwise they get thrown in the Atlantic, shredded etc.

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We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg

The Clinton team has White-Out and know how to use it.

Nothing - however blatant and provable - that they pull can any longer surprise me.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

Thanks for posting that comprehensively informative link - I forget that not everyone has been following this travesty all along.

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Hillary Clinton and the state department interfered with Haiti's election.

On Sunday Haitians head to the polls to select their next president in the first round of elections. But now there's evidence of U.S. interference in the last presidential election back in 2010. Recently-released emails from Hillary Clinton's private server revealed details of how U.S. officials worked closely with the Haitian private sector as they forced Haitian authorities to change the results of the first round of presidential elections in late 2010. Eventually the U.S. government ended up supporting the current president, Michel Martelly.

The history of Haiti is marked by the heavy-handed intervention of the U.S. This includes the 19-year occupation of the country by U.S. Marines in the early 20th century and the U.S.-backed coup in 2004 that overthrew Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president. Haiti has been occupied by U.S.-backed U.N. soldiers for more than a decade.

The Haitian government has been further destabilized by U.S. political interference. After Jean Bertrand Aristide was re-elected President in 2000 (by 90 percent of the vote), the U.S. imposed a development assistance embargo on Haiti, holding up over $200,000,000 in aid. The U.S. government financed Haitian organizations that were working to undermine and overthrow the Haitian government. On February 29, 2004, Aristide was forcibly removed and sent to exile in Africa on a U.S. government plane. The U.S. replaced the constitutional government with an unelected prime minister flown in from Florida.

The United States has been meddling in Haiti for decades and overthrew the elected government and installed the Duviers who committed heinous human rights violations while the US did nothing. And when Baby Doc was forced to flee, they let him take millions with him.
And guess what? He showed up again in 2010 and tried to run for president again. One would think that someone would ask him for the money back or charge him for the human rights violations he committed, but no. That wasn't important to the US
Or how the United States either interferes with other countries elections or if they don't like the current government because they won't let US special interests run wild in their country they remove them and install the leader who will do the US' bidding. And if that leader happens to commit human rights violations, apparently the United States doesn't care until the leaders quit being puppets and then need to be removed.
As we are seeing right now in Syria.
Assad isn't being removed because he used sarin nerve gas on his own people but because he won't let Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France, the U.K. and other countries do what they want. And the nerve gas was used by the moderate Syrian rebels (Al Quada) which they got from the CIA when they were running guns out of the embassy in Benghazi with the help from Hillary's state department in order for Obama to have an excuse to remove Assad.
Hillary, the great defender of women and children.
Here's some of the children that died a horrible death from the nerve gas!
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And if this isn't bad enough, this young boy was beheaded by OUR F'CKING MODERATE TERRORISTS! Here's he is before they did this. He was 12 years old and what has Obama done to hold them accountable for that? Not a damned thing. Except he continued to arm them with weapons including TOW anti aircraft missles!
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Same reason for the coups in countless countries starting with Syria in 1949 and ending with Ukraine a few years ago.
And I appreciate who ever it was that let us know that the DNC stole the election from Bernie and his supporters.
Bye the way, did you have a point to make, or did you come here to drop off a lot of links?
I agree with DK Mitch.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

has refused to confrim or deny they are still supporting Al Zinki (ie they still do) but I'm 100% sure they got they boot from the TOW program, as any time a US "vetted" group uses TOWs they have to video tape it.

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Solidarity forever

I need to have a 'thanks for the wonderful post!' stamp made up.

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Funny thing is, the Clinton campaign coordination with SuperPacs was claimed to be OK effectively because this was 'in kind' support (which used to be restricted, for the little people, at any rate) rather than cash being involved.

But this, costing over a million, (which could mean that the sky is the limit) is NOT a 'free' (or voluntary, come to that,) political activity, nor is attacking the free speech of the supporters of other Dem nominees justifiable politically funded activity in anything intended to be and termed a democracy.

http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-correct-the-...

Barrier Breakers 2016: A Project of Correct The Record
Task force will help Clinton supporters push back on online harassment and thank
superdelegates

... Correct The Record will invest more than $1 million into Barrier Breakers 2016 activities, including the more than tripling of its digital operation to engage in online messaging both for Secretary Clinton and to push back against attackers on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Instagram. Barrier Breakers 2016 is a project of Correct The Record and the brainchild of David Brock, and the task force will be overseen by President of Correct The Record Brad Woodhouse and Digital Director Benjamin Fischbein. The task force staff’s backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize. ...

Yeah, those professional writers/PR people and fanatics form such a comprehensive cross-section of the impoverished and dispossessed American population desperately trying to get actual representation in their own freaking government!

But going by what I'd read, the original Wall St. favorites for the race were typically a Bush/Clinton combo, those quoted being happy with either, and both candidates cheated like crazy with regard to campaign finance until Bush fizzled out like a toxic wet firecracker due (edit: to) too many horrified voters spluttering at the choice they were offered. The same went double for Hillary, but she's being kept behind a corporate media splatter-shield being continually wiped, like, with a cloth?

So, 'The Official Greater Evil - Quick, Vote For Hill!' tactic was used one too many times and backfired, because what could possibly be scarier than Hillary and Bill, tag-teaming to screw the world to literal death?

Bringing a (scripted?) racist and grossly unsuitable billionaire in to incite violence among his followers in order to scare the people into voting Hill might have worked well enough pre-Bernie, but no more. Apart from the facts that he's slightly less terrifying than either the Clintons - and there are only one of him.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

It's all Russia/Trump all the time as the spin cycle begins in earnest.

I wonder what new revelations await the hour about to dawn.

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

there was no way in hell I was going to vote for clinton. Jill all the way. But if they keep this shit up I may have to vote for trump....

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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

Please don't vote for someone who is actually working with the person you oppose.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Jay Elliott's picture

I learned a lot from the California primary.

I already knew that my Secretary of State was corrupt. I already knew he could screw around with registrations. (My favorite trick wasn't the flipping of registrations to force people to use provisional ballots -- although that came in so many flavors -- it was delivering the "blue pages" of newer registrants to college polling places hours late, so that the lines were incredibly long and thousands of Bernie voters who had registered properly were disenfranchised.) What I didn't understand until the California primary was that unvetted volunteers were allowed to take the computer scanners home with them the night before the election; that you could concoct a kind of propaganda that would persuade thousands of government workers that it was noble and good to white out votes and replace them, separate out reams and reams of voted ballots and shred them unopened.

That's why we need paper ballots, counted by hand, in public, the same night as the election. That wouldn't protect against the registration shenanigans, but it would protect against the rest.

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sojourns's picture

I think the Russian part is manufactured?

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

Alligator Ed's picture

first on the list. The rest of the essay, although not fully placing blame of the Democratic establishment (DNC, NGP-VAN, multiple states' Secretaries of Elections), does indicate some of the dirty tricks utilized. Bernie should have won--in fact he did win. Early in his campaign I was saddened by "Enough the damn emails already" but was fuming when Bernie refused to expose the outright cheating, clearly demonstrable to all who cared to look

The majority of Bernie's defeat came at the hands of TPTB, but he earned a share in it by passively accepting the fraud, as well as not going after Medusa as hard as he could. Who knows: the Mad Bomber might have "droned" him too (Stay off the balcony Julian).

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“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu

Anja Geitz's picture

Relay back at the GOS:

WHY is she STILL polling within a margin of error in critical swing states with The Hairball despite the Trump/ Russia fear mongering you and the MSM have employed at shrieking level 24/7.

BECAUSE SHE IS AN AWFUL CANDIDATE!!!!

Like all of us here told you months ago.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

would know how not to leave a trail and how to leave a misleading trail.

Are all the hacks during the primary attributed to Russia too? Because those hacks sure as hell helped Hillary.

Thanks CADemocrat for keeping us up to date with all this news. Today is the first time I've heard of the "Crosscheck System". How can that be legal?

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