There IS a little evidence that Russia tried, but failed.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/index.html

Russia hacked voting systems in 39 states before the 2016 presidential election
This goes way deeper than we first thought.
Updated by Alex Ward@AlexWardVoxalex.ward@vox.com Jun 13, 2017, 2:00pm EDT


Russia’s efforts to hack the 2016 presidential election were much more widespread than originally thought. The Russian campaign hit 39 states — twice as many as originally reported — and in one case hackers tried to delete and alter voter data.

That’s the startling revelation from a Bloomberg report this morning. The extent of the cyber intrusion was so widespread that Obama administration officials used the infamous “red phone” — which is really a digital communications channel that allows the countries to send information back and forth — to show Kremlin leaders what they had discovered. It remains unclear, though, if these intrusions had any direct effect on the election’s outcome.

Still, this is another example of Russia taking advantage of the many online vulnerabilities in America’s voting network, which is comprised of software companies, online registration sites, and vital information that election officials willingly send to each other over email.

All of them play an important part in obtaining and safeguarding sensitive voter information, but it appears the Russians have figured out how to get that data.

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https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/13/15791744/russia-election-39-states-hack-putin-trump-sessions

that nobody hacked them?

Here's an article recently published where some hackers were able to hack into machines quite easily.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hackers-crack-voting-machines-within-minutes-at-def-con-in-vegas_us_597ca139e4b02a4ebb75c134

You're telling me that even though the machines are easily hacked, etc., because there's no evidence of hacking, they weren't hacked? For one thing, how can you even know if they're hacked or not? Is the hacker going to tell you? The vote is NEVER verified in this country. With some machines it's impossible to verify them (touch screens where there's no paper). In the others they're just never verified as far as I've been able to find.

I live in Wichita KS and a statistician here at Wichita State, Beth Clarkson, working for the Natl Institute of Aviation Research, NIAR, decided to do her own exit polling and compare the exit poll results with the machine results and statistically analyze these results to find out the odds of any discrepancies happening. Kris Kobach would never let her look at any of the paper to see why certain unusual results were happening here and around the country. She set up her own exit polling in 6 precincts in KS during the 2016 election and the title of her first article after she'd analyzed the results was this: "Our Vote is being rigged. What are we going to do about it?"

I would venture to say that if any competent statistician did exactly what Beth did anywhere in the country he/she would find out exactly what Beth did. The vote is being rigged. Here in KS it seems to favor the libertarians more than the Repubs. It's probably different in different areas of the country, but the rigging is taking place and has been since at least 2002. And now with the Russians, whose hackers are at least as good as ours and maybe better, people still won't even consider HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS, which would solve everything, would be cheaper in the long run, and would negate any possible hacking from anybody, including Russia.

Go Figure.

I'll never be accused of being Hillary's biggest fan but ...

The increasing stench from the ever growing mound of evidence that she got ripped off in this election (and so did America) needs to be front and center.

There are moments when it seems like we're supposed to sit there politely and be good sports about the way we got this result. The 'political correctness' of it feels something like reminding the burglar who is cleaning out my house to not forget the TV.

We protested Nixon's "I have nothing to hide" (I was there). Why do we have to sit on our hands while democracy is stolen from Americans by the 1% wealthy and the Russians?

I hope Hillary does not mince her words with respect to voting machines, scams to disenfranchise, campaign finance, gerrymandering, the Russians, etc. What has transpired is a sick joke which resulted in a dangerously, mentally deranged, racist scumbag in the Oval office who worries most rational Americans.

Obviously, more needs to be done. Hillary should bluntly call them out to help get people "fired up and ready to go"

But now is bad timing for her to talk about it further.

A lot of people on the left complained about this after the 2000 election too. Tons of time and energy was given to this.

But when Obama won in 08, and again in 12, it wasn't such a big deal for us (but it was for some RWers who thought the system was rigged against the GOP)

Now, when we lose again, it's suddenly a problem again.

Hillary Clinton lays out sweeping voting rights vision

In a major speech on voting rights Thursday, Hillary Clinton laid out a far-reaching vision for expanding access to the ballot box, and denounced Republican efforts to make voting harder.

Speaking at Texas Southern University in Houston, Clinton called for every American to be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18 unless they choose not to be. She backed a nationwide standard of at least 20 days of early voting. She urged Congress to pass legislation strengthening the Voting Rights Act, which was gravely weakened by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling. And she slammed restrictive voting laws imposed by the GOP in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin, which she said affect minorities and students in particular.

“We have a responsibility to say clearly and directly what’s really going on in our country,” Clinton said, “because what is happening is a sweeping effort to dis-empower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people, and young people from one end of our country to the other.”

“We should be clearing the way for more people to vote, not putting up every road-block anyone can imagine,” Clinton added.

“What is happening is a sweeping effort to dis-empower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people, and young people from one end of our country to the other.”
Hillary Clinton


More: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-early-voting-nationwide