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The campaign staff of Emmanuel Macron, one of the two candidates in France's presidential election run-off, claim to have been targeted by a massive hacking operation that leaked sensitive documents:
On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a "massive and coordinated" hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation's democracy before voters go to the polls on Sunday.
The digital attack, which involved a dump of campaign documents including emails and accounting records, emerged hours before a legal prohibition on campaign communications went into effect. While the leak may be of little consequence, the timing makes it extremely difficult for Mr. Macron to mitigate any damaging fallout before the runoff election, in which he faces the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has pledged to pull France out of the euro and hold a referendum to leave the European Union.
French authorities recently arrested a suspect who admitted to attacking the campaign website for the other candidate, Marine Le Pen.
Also at the Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and Reuters.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @09:45PM (2 children)
> So while it is true she won a larger plurality than Trump did, she did not win most of the votes
That's not what isostatic said.
He said the person with the most votes wins.
Your post is a hillary derangement aftershock.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:24AM (1 child)
So in a twelve way race, if a person got 15% of the vote, and the other 11 shared the remainder in such a way as to not exceed 15%, THAT person should be the winner in your view?
As others have pointed out, if there is no majority winner, there should be a run-off. HRC failed to get a majority and those 6.1% who voted 3rd party or write in, might not be the staunch HRC supporters you imagine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:32AM
So in a twelve way race, if a person got 15% of the vote, and the other 11 shared the remainder in such a way as to not exceed 15%, THAT person should be the winner in your view?
Define "should."
I don't think that slavery-holdover electoral college should determine the winner.
You just can't get past your hillary fixation. Get over it. Your witch lost.