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kpete

(71,996 posts) Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:14 AM Apr 2017

Forget title of article - Does THIS paragraph-prove Russian hacking targeted voting machines?

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Forget title of article - Does THIS paragraph-prove Russian hacking targeted voting machines? (Original Post) kpete Apr 2017 OP

No. brooklynite Apr 2017 #1

yep samnsara Apr 2017 #2

No, this is an absurd stretch Amishman Apr 2017 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author uponit7771 Apr 2017 #5

+1, "... Russian tampering in actual ..........VOTING PROCESS ............" uponit7771 Apr 2017 #4

Maybe if you STRETCH. Dr Hobbitstein Apr 2017 #6

brooklynite

(94,588 posts)

1. No.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:23 AM

Apr 2017

Are you suggesting that the Administration new of a post to hack voting machines and said nothing about it?

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

2. yep

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:31 AM

Apr 2017

Amishman

(5,557 posts)

3. No, this is an absurd stretch

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Apr 4, 2017, 08:43 AM

Apr 2017

A single indirectly worded paragraph in a single media article isn't proof of voting machine hacking, it's a sign of desperation to defend something that just didn't happen.

Everyone needs to focus on the real Russian meddling and stop trying to jump the shark and claim that the voting machines were tampered. They weren't. As I have said in other threads, the logistics involved would be insane as it would require physical access to tens of thousands of voting machines.

I've seen rebuttals claiming it wouldn't take much given that the states we're only decided by tens of thousands of votes. The answer is that unless someone has a time machine and has perfect information on what to flip where in advance, there is no way it could have been done without near total coverage, which is unsupported by evidence and virtually impossible from a logistics standpoint.