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elehhhhna

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Thu Jun 6, 2013, 06:47 PM Jun 2013

Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns. TIME TO DUMP ELECTRONIC VOTING.


Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns, took internal documents, officials say





By Michael Isikoff
National investigative correspondent






The U.S. secretly traced a massive cyberespionage operation against the 2008 presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain to hacking units backed by the People’s Republic of China, prompting high level warnings to Chinese officials to stop such activities, U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18807056-chinese-hacked-obama-mccain-campaigns-took-internal-documents-officials-say?lite
The disclosure on the eve of a two-day summit between the U.S. and Chinese presidents highlights what has become a persistent source of tension between the two global powers: Beijing’s aggressive, orchestrated campaign to pierce America’s national security armor at any weak point – in this case the computers and laptops of top campaign aides and advisers who received high-level briefings.






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The goal of the campaign intrusion, according to the officials: to export massive amounts of internal data from both campaigns—including internal position papers and private emails of key advisers in both camps.
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Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns. TIME TO DUMP ELECTRONIC VOTING. (Original Post) elehhhhna Jun 2013 OP
yes? elehhhhna Jun 2013 #1
It was time to dump electronic voting RoccoR5955 Jun 2013 #2
 

RoccoR5955

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2. It was time to dump electronic voting
Thu Jun 6, 2013, 08:02 PM
Jun 2013

BEFORE they implemented it!
Then, because people in Floriduh can't count they passed the "Hinder Americans From Voting Act," to make things harder for folks to vote.
I work the polls on Election Day, and many folks hate the damn electronic machines. They are also more of an outlay than the old mechanical ones that we have been using here in NY State forever!
We had out Tammany Hall, and we fixed it ourselves eons ago!

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