Timothy Birdnow

I suggested that the hacking of the voting systems in ARizona and Illinois were NOT acts of Russian espionage as the Obama Administration has claimed but rather was a domestic act by our own government. I have had, of course, zero proof to that assertion, but the claims these hacks were Russian are equally without proof and I have suspected for some time that our overseers in the dark bureacracies were attempting to fiddle with the election (and likely in Hillary Clinton's favor). My sense was born almost completely out of the knowlege that the NSA and other such super-secret outfits have been compiling all manner of data on U.S. citizens and the next step for such an agency would be to implenent it's vision. In other words, I have a hunch based on motive, means, and opportunity - the three legs of a criminal investigation. The U.S. has a motive to maintain the status quo, the means to do it (the best cyber people in the world and intimate knowlege of the protocols and algorithms of these systems), and, well, plenty of top guys sitting around with time on their hands.

But again, no proof.

Now it comes ot our attemtion that The Department of Homeland Security may have hacked the Georgia Voter system without the foreknowlege or permission of state officials:

"The attempt took place on Nov. 15, a few days after the presidential election. The office of the Georgia Secretary of State is responsible for overseeing the state’s elections.

"At no time has my office agreed to or permitted DHS to conduct penetration testing or security scans of our network,” Kemp wrote in the letter, which was also sent to the state’s federal representatives and senators. "Moreover, your department has not contacted my office since this unsuccessful incident to alert us of any security event that would require testing or scanning of our network. This is especially odd and concerning since I serve on the Election Cyber Security Working Group that your office created.”

"The Department of Homeland Security has received Secretary Kemp’s letter,” a DHS spokesperson told CyberScoop. "We are looking into the matter. DHS takes the trust of our public and private sector partners seriously, and we will respond to Secretary Kemp directly.”

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Perhaps this attempt was the "clean up" effort? Was the system maybe hacked before the election? If our government is hacking voter systems to test them, are they perhaps not motifying them?

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