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trumad

(41,692 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:06 PM Nov 2012

Can you imagine a scenario where hackers turn the election and then are quickly caught.

Imagine if states that Obama was clearly favored to win flipped dramatically giving Romney the win.

Then imagine within a day or two, the hacking was discovered, the FBI was brought in, and they quickly caught the hackers.

What would be the mechanism to redo the election. I'm guessing the courts?

I honestly think that someday this will happen.



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silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
1. I am hoping DOJ's arrival is just the tip of an investigational spear...One which Husted impaled
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:08 PM
Nov 2012

on, and others go down. Probably won't happen, but definitely needs to.

flamingdem

(39,321 posts)
2. I think there are very few directly involved
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:11 PM
Nov 2012

and they make sure they don't get caught. All this is possible when dealing with computer programs.
They can cover their tracks, and some have done it before and not gotten caught.

However, there might be a slip-up or someone might rat them out.

 

villager

(26,001 posts)
4. The Rove cabal tends to murder those caught, as "suicides" or "plane wrecks"
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:12 PM
Nov 2012

FBI will have to be careful with their witnesses. They're dealing with a criminal syndicate, after all....

flamingdem

(39,321 posts)
5. Exactly, that's basically what it is, and explains the unexplainable
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:14 PM
Nov 2012

They operate as a mafia, utterly desperate and ethics-free.

I don't see their repuke followers being up in arms about all this voter supression, there are millions of participating.

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)
3. I can not imagine your scenario. It is warfare by the powerful against the disempowered. You
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:11 PM
Nov 2012

imagine the powerful would ever allow their power to be challenged? I don't.

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)
8. They can and have been caught. They have not and never will be prosecuted until the prosecutor
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:37 PM
Nov 2012

works for the people and the courts have some responsibility to those same people.

The election thefts have been blatant for at least the last 3 cycles. Have you seen any prosecutions?

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
10. It happened already
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 05:43 PM
Nov 2012

On a much smaller scale.

A recent election in West Palm Beach, Florida was overturned by officials there after they double checked the results via hand counting. Officials found the computer had flipped the election.

So, it happens. It is not a conspiracy theory that the computer counts can totally alter the results.

All that is needed is for the count to be double checked. But the truth is very, very few of the results even get a second look. If Obama loses, you can bet there will be many of us demanding a second look.

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