Was your vote in the 2016 elections meddled with?

I'd like to see if anyone actually feels like their vote was meddled with by those pesky Russians.

Mine wasn't. There was zero chance that I'd have voted for H. Clinton. Zero. Nada. Zilch.

No one I know has said they felt their votes were meddled with either. Was yours?

I have no idea. I don't begin to think my one little vote tipped the election, so I remain clueless..

Every vote counts. Do you think your vote was influenced in such a way that you may have actually changed your vote because of a Facebook post or a piece of truth leaked by the DNC?

I'll try to be clear. I voted for Clinton, and primarily because I was influenced by some apparently biased reports and videos indicating severe mental and physical problems. I was less against her running mate than any others on the ballot, and figured he would be next up when we sadly had to exercise the 25th amendment.

Why on earth would the DNC release any piece of truth?

On election day morning, I was torn over who to vote for. I liked the idea of Hillary's more militant foreign policy and support for Obamacare. But her gun bans would have been a disaster.

When I expressed my dilemma, a liberal friend sneered and said I didn't need to worry about guns because they were only going to ban assault weapons.

I think that this was somehow an attempt to convince me to vote for Hillary.

But it clarified the issue for me and left me no doubt that I must vote for Trump for the sake of America's freedom.

It was the right choice.

No votes were meddled with (at least not directly). You don’t need to meddle with votes if you can color the information stream which people use to pick their votes. That’s the value of propaganda.

Thank god you’re not Susan Sarandon. I hear tell from the psychotic donut crowd on Twitter that Susan is personally and completely responsible for Hillary’s untimely loss.

She’s some magical voting super woman!

Don't forget that in the USA's crap system voting is voluntary - so it's all about activating your base and discouraging the other side's. Not voting is essentially the same as voting for the other side.

Freedom of Speech. If Russia wishes to pitch an argument to America's voters, they have just as much right to speak as anyone else.

This entire thread is based on a specious premise. Who has alleged that the Russians did anything to fraudulently alter the vote? In the specific case of the author, he may have voted for Plump, but his state went for Clinton. In New York, Clinton won slightly over 60% of the vote, and Plump won fractionally over 36%. I don't believe McG is fatuous, so I consider this thread to be, as Plump is so fond of saying, fake news--from start to finish.

I keep seeing that Russia meddled with the election. You've seen it, I am sure. In order to meddle with an election, you must meddle with the voting public.

Spreading truth's or lies about a political candidate is not meddling, that is campaigning and if it were the case, well let's just say that meddling has been occurring throughout time.

I am on a hunt to discover what it is exactly that Russia did to be considered "meddling" with the election.

I have seen that the DNC servers were hacked and that info was leaked to wikileaks. Is that meddling or disseminating the truth? I see that a Cohen-Trump tape was leaked recently. Is that meddling? If it happens that Russia was behind that (which I doubt, but let's pretend they were) does it change the way people react to it?

If Hillary had won the election, would Russia still be Baba Yaga?

Nothing specious here Set, just mere curiosity as this appears to be one of those events where "Well my vote wasn't effected, but America's vote was!" when in actuality, no one had theu actual vote meddled with.

Yes, that is propaganda.

Breaking into servers of political parties is illegal. There is precedent here, a case called "Watergate". If the DNC conducted a cyber attack on the RNC and released internal RNC memos, I doubt anyone would have a problem considering that illegal. A conspiracy to attack US political parties by a foreign power is more than illegal, it is an attack on the US.

That is illegal. The DNC, RNC, anyone else is allowed to formulate strategy in private. Anyone, domestic or foreign, who hacks into an opponent's email is breaking the law. IMO, if a foreign power does it, it is an attack on our country. If a DNC insider did it as an act of whistleblowing (to show illegal or dishonest activity) you could make a "disseminating the truth" argument.

That tape was officially released by Cohen's attorneys but let's run with it. If the tape was released by a US citizen as "whistleblowing" to show dishonest or illegal activities, then no, it is not unethical (and perhaps not even illegal). In this case, it clearly fits that category since the payments being discussed are potential violations of campaign contribution law. If Russia did it and they obtained the tape legally, I would consider that a propaganda attack although the person who gave it to them is guilty of conspiring with a foreign power. If Russia obtained the tape by illegal means, it would be much more serious and yes, it would change the way I viewed it. I would absolutely consider it an attack on our country.

Yes, Russia is still conducting cyber crimes in the US focused on our state election systems and is attacking our political parties cyber infrastructure. I doubt Clinton would be ignoring that the way the current administration seems to be. (Actually, I think some parts of the current administration are actively trying to address this.)

Let's take another example that I think is a lot more nebulous - the leak of comments a staffer made about John McCain "he's dying anyway".

If Russia had hacked into that meeting and released that information, to me that would be a crime. Same if the DNC had done it. Whoever did release it (and I can't see it was anyone other than a fellow staffer), it was clearly focused on damaging the speaker. There was no benefit to the public in terms of exposing government dishonesty or criminality. The public might have found it juicy gossip, but otherwise it had no value.

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#3 from this article is the part I've been following on twitter for about 18 months (though #2 fascinates me as well)

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/18/russia-election-hacking-trump-putin-698087



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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-election-hacking-and-the-georgia-governors-race








much more at the link

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did the russians alter the actual votes? I have no idea.
could they have? I'm coming around to that being a possibility

did they need to? my guess is no

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I know I wouldn't be thrilled not to have hardcopy votes to check.

The JagerPro hog trap. Again this is what the Russians were interested in:

Your premise is false, and I think you know it. We do not, of course, know specifically what Mueller's investigation is looking at. However, we do know that there have been allegations of improper payments, money laundering and illegal interference in the election process through financial transactions. While the federal election law is ambiguous, foreign agencies are prohibited from contributing to political campaigns, and foreeign NGOs can only contribute to political campaigns if more than 50% of their expenditures in the United States go to social welfar4e programs. I doubt that the Internet Research Center in St. Petersburg spends one red cent on social welfare programs in the United States.

You keep banging on about "meddling." That's a journalist's term. Look for the language that Mueller's team uses, not some clown at Fox or CNN. That's a load of old crap about people's votes. If people stayed home, if they voted in a "non-traditional" manner, and were motivated by Russian propaganda, then that's illegal. If members of Plump's campaign team colluded in that effort, that's illegal. You've just put this into simplistic terms so that you can erect a straw man.

This article at the University of Kentucky Election Law Society web site states that the law is unambiguous, but I don't know that I agree with that. It's not about somebody hacking your voting machine, it's about illegal interference in the campaign, and there are federal laws against that.

This entire thread is a straw man fallacy.