The U.S. authorities have repeatedly warned that foreign governments would seek to meddle in the upcoming presidential election. It now appears they were right.
David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, tells the story of the first major cyberattack of the 2024 campaign.
Guest: David E. Sanger (https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-e-sanger) , a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• The hacking of presidential campaigns has started (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/politics/trump-campaign-hacking-iran.html) , with the usual fog of motives.
• The finding that Iran had breached the campaign (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/politics/iran-trump-campaign-hacking.html) of former President Donald J. Trump was widely expected.
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It sounds like Trump wants us to think he’s being targeted like Hilary was.
No one with a brain believes this was Iran.
How competent is your guest really if he thinks all of Europe has the same (and less safe) voting system or that comparing one European country to the whole US makes any sense? Like seriously.
1. you need to compare the US vs the whole of Europe or at least the whole of the EU. There is no singular voting system across the whole of the EU, not even for EU elections. Every country does its own thing. Even more so for each country’s elections. Which can be as different as the Baltics, which have electronic voting to Germany which still runs everything on paper and fax machines.
2. Apart from the Baltics, European countries run their votes strictly on paper with many, many, many more and smaller polling places than in the US. Which is basically impossible to hack. Try attacking all those small polling places where stuff happens on paper. Even if there were some successful operation to change the results in some of these places, that wouldn’t matter much.
3. The EU countries typically have proportional voting systems, none of that first past the post stuff and electoral college that can flip overall results easily.
I’d say the only way to attack European votes would be to attack voter registers and there the systems are very different from country to country as well. Potentially even different within countries, as Germany is very federalist and often does stuff completely different in one state from the next. France might be easier to hack because France is very centralized.
4. Europe has auto-registration where you get a letter in the mail reminding you to vote some time ahead. If voters don’t receive this letter but their neighbors did or saw some strange info on the letter, they’d complain – and the hacking attempt would be found.
lol the NYT really takes Americans for idiots
Liberals, independents and others who are voting for THE NAME Kamala are NOT VOTING FOR KAMALA, THEY ARE VOTING FOR EX-PRESIDENTS OBAMA, CLINTON, AND BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRAT ESTABLISHMENT AND DEEP STATE WHO ARE PULLING THE STRINGS…. LIFE IN THE USA WILL BE THE SAME as in 2020-2024…..and then BLACK AMERICANS WILL BE BACK TO THE DEMOCRAT PLANTATION……. BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO AS SHOWN ON OBAMA-KAMALA VIDEOS…