Monday, August 29, 2016

Trump Says Election Will Be "Rigged.." Um ... Check Your Russian Pals, Donald

Trump Cheered for DNC Hacking
(Tells Russia to Look for More...)

Meanwhile at the FBI
 (FBI uncovers evidence of foreign hackers in state election databases) 


Background on Trump Rigging Statement from here, the highlights:

Donald Trump, trailing narrowly in presidential polls, has issued a warning to worried Republican voters: The election will be “rigged” against him — and he could lose as a result.

Trump pointed to several court cases nationwide in which restrictive laws requiring voters to show identification have been thrown out. He said those decisions open the door to fraud in November.

Trump said: “If the election is rigged, I would not be surprised. The voter ID situation has turned out to be a very unfair development. We may have people vote 10 times.”

FYI: There is little if no evidence of voter ID fraud anywhere in the country ... others errors, yes, but not voter ID fraud that the GOP pushes. 

Continue the story above link.

Now the FBI Alert to States. Seems AZ and IL state voter databases were hacked. Those highlights

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.

The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyber intrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections.

Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cyber security experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department.  

That story continues at the link.  

Rigged? Um.  As I said, Mr. Trump, check you Russian pals … oops. Thanks for stopping by.

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