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A federal grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted 13 Russian nationals and a Kremlin-linked internet firm on charges that they had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
The US government said Russian entities began interfering in US political processes, including the 2016 presidential election, as early as 2014, according to a court document.
[...] The charges – which include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft – are the most direct allegations to date of illegal Russian meddling in the election.
Link to the Indictment: https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download
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Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election
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The hardware's, of course.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @08:27PM (3 children)
OK, if we are going after election meddling, then when do the indictments start for organizations like AIPAC (and many others)?
How about against Diebold for faulty voting machines?
The list goes on and on.
I suggest that before going after this incident, there are many other more serious things to fix.
(Score: 5, Informative) by vux984 on Monday February 19 2018, @08:51PM (2 children)
Look, I'm with you on stuff like PACs, including AIPAC. They aren't breaking the law though; the law itself needs to change. I support that change.
I'm also with you in opposition to the use of voting machines - I think Canada's paper ballot system is far better model. (And don't tell me its 1/10th the population, because that's irrelevant. The US will have 10x the number of voting stations, 10x the number of ballot boxes, 10x the number of people counting them, it will scale up just fine.) I'm not convinced Diebold was malicious though or broke any laws; just that they were incompetent and made defective equipment. Again, the solution there is to stop using them.
"I suggest that before going after this incident, there are many other more serious things to fix."
That argument never works, and doesn't make a lot of sense. Next time a mugger gets apprehended, he should say "I suggest that before going after this incident, there are many other more serious things to fix. I'm pretty sure there's an unsolved murder or two out there."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @09:00PM (1 child)
The poll workers claimed that the machine was down, so I should just leave my paper ballot in a pile that they would scan later. Sure...
It's easy with all-electronic voting too. Just "forget" to charge the machines in an area where people vote the wrong way. People will give up and go home.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 19 2018, @09:56PM
I wonder if absentee ballots are more or less likely to be suppressed.
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