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Putin is already at work, screwing up Iowa... (Original Post) pbmus Feb 2020 OP
Did Iowa buy the app from Kaspersky? dalton99a Feb 2020 #1
LOL Good question. nt DURHAM D Feb 2020 #3
no DURHAM D Feb 2020 #2
Wonder if it was just good old-fashioned hacking? donkeypoofed Feb 2020 #4
Putin didn't screw it up. CentralMass Feb 2020 #5
Yep! JoeOtterbein Feb 2020 #6
Like the landslide victory in New Hampshire that wasnt. CentralMass Feb 2020 #11
No Shit ? dweller Feb 2020 #7
Hack the app, then have operatives call to tie up the back-up phone lines. tinrobot Feb 2020 #8
Rethugs are already crowing that "Democrats can't even run their own caucuses" sandensea Feb 2020 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author blogslut Feb 2020 #10
follow @jennycohn1 for best election security info. Grasswire2 Feb 2020 #12
screw up the primaries, set the Democrats at each-other's throats 0rganism Feb 2020 #13
K&R, uponit7771 Feb 2020 #14
Russia Russia Russia...OR more reality-based: Poor coding, per IowaDemocrats... jmg257 Feb 2020 #15

tinrobot

(10,903 posts)
8. Hack the app, then have operatives call to tie up the back-up phone lines.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 01:46 AM
Feb 2020

When the actual results finally do come in, fire up the bots the next day to claim fraud, dividing Democrats against themselves.

Certainly possible.

sandensea

(21,639 posts)
9. Rethugs are already crowing that "Democrats can't even run their own caucuses"
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 01:50 AM
Feb 2020

And who, with the power to actually interfere, would want to make that happen?

If it's not Vlad, it's Turd Blossom Rove.

Response to pbmus (Original post)

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
12. follow @jennycohn1 for best election security info.
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 02:14 AM
Feb 2020

Her hair has been on fire for many many moons.

No machines!!

No wifi!!

Must have HAND MARKED PAPER BALLOTS, voter verifiable.

And a strong audit trail.

And ballot security.

That is the way to a secure election.

Stages are still buying hackable systems.

0rganism

(23,957 posts)
13. screw up the primaries, set the Democrats at each-other's throats
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 02:48 AM
Feb 2020

divide and conquer plus makes it much easier to explain strange results later ( "hey Democrats didn't win because <group X> didn't turn out like they did in 2012" or "Democrats lost because <group Y> abandoned them." ) you can build extended narratives around fictions like these, but first they must be planted in a rich soil of fertilized half-truths, then carefully tended through the spring blossoming season and summer fruiting months to be ready for harvest in November.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
15. Russia Russia Russia...OR more reality-based: Poor coding, per IowaDemocrats...
Tue Feb 4, 2020, 11:16 AM
Feb 2020



When in actuality..


"While the app was recording data properly, it was reporting out only partial data.
We have determined that was due to a coding issue..."



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