Most times elections are won or lost in a handful of States.
But.
Russia targeted almost half of our States Voter Systems.
Cambridge Analytica had at least 87 Million of us in their data.
Why so far beyond what they needed for the Swing States?
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So why go so far beyond?
Why draw so much more attention to the targeting?
We now know all that was done to get Trump Elected. They needed all of it to take three typically democratic Voting States and turn them by the narrowest of margins.
I believe they were smart enough to know something else.
I believe they knew if they were able to pull this off there was one problem that they needed to address.
Popular Vote. They knew they were never going to carry the popular vote.
They also knew they would never have been able to sell the results of this election if the Popular Vote difference was significantly larger.
77,000 Votes over Three States?
A 3 million difference on popular vote.
What would have been the narrative if that margin was considerably higher?
They needed to hit us everywhere. Anywhere they could. We may never know everything that was done but it was well beyond the Swing States.
It had to be.
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So Russia has reportedly moved on from Hacking our Election Infrastructure. Moving on to other things. Don’t believe it. They are everywhere in our Election System. They know the importance of the Midterms.
Parts of an operation linked to Russian military intelligence targeting the US Senate and conservative think tanks were thwarted last week. The domains were associated with the Russian government and known as Strontium, or alternatively Fancy Bear or APT28
"Hackers could have used the domains to send emails to Senate staffers or people working for the Hudson Institute or the International Republican Institute in an attempt to trick them into handing over information, like their passwords."
#unhackthevote
Georgia to close 75% of Black Counties Precincts!! Precincts that were all open during the Primaries. They know they have a problem. Even with the Election machines that give suspect results they know they need more help.
If this stands we need to start a major effort to provide transportation in this county. We will need drivers, volunteers and people to help distribute notices and spread the word.
This is also what we should be doing in any heavily Gerrymandered area where there is a difficulty with people traveling the long distance to their polling places.
#unhackthevote
Remote Access Software used by ES&S Voting. They finally tell the truth. At least some of it. Thank you to @KimZetter for pursuing her initial story from February. I am afraid we are missing the bigger point here.
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States have given over their Election Systems to a myriad of Private Companies. The States in many cases have absolutely no idea what is happening with their Elections.
Ask yourself why did the States notified over a year after the 2016 Election not know that they were being targeted by Russia? How is that possible? What does that mean for the possibility of having a free and fair Election?
#unhackthevote
Maryland Voter Registration System runs on Russian Owned Software! The biggest problem here is that they never knew it. How is that possible? The States have no idea who is behind the companies they give the Elections over to.
We are going to be dropping a ton of research on exactly this. Why do States willfully do this. Would a state actually know if something went bad ? Let's talk more about Spearphishing.
Every company that touches a States Voting system introduces a hundred more employees that can get hacked. Companies rely on these contracts. They aren't going to disclose what happened. Just look at VR Systems.