For calling your Senators & Representative and asking them to release a statement in support of auditing the vote (#AuditTheVote):
“Hi, I’m Monica Lastname and I’m calling from Somerville. I’m concerned about the validity of the Presidential election results based on security concerns that I’ve seen raised by NSA and CIA officials. I’d like Senator Warren to issue a statement or otherwise act in support of a risk-limiting audit of the election results. Thank you.”
For calling the Department of Justice: NUMBERS I’VE SEEN: 202-307-2767, 202-353-1555, 202-514-2000 x4
“Hi, I’m Monica Lastname, a US Citizen and voter calling from Somerville, Massachusetts. I’m requesting that the Department of Justice conduct a risk-limiting audit of the Presidential election based on evidence of foreign interference, and that an injunction be placed on the meeting of the Electoral College until the audit can be completed. Thank you!”
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The DHS official — speaking on background because of the subject’s sensitive nature — explained that hackers of all stripes are constantly testing the digital defenses of every state’s public-facing election systems. But in 20-plus states, the agency determined that these intrusion attempts have become what DHS calls “probing of concern.”
In Florida: Lost by 120,000. One Attorney quoted in article: “Tallahassee-based VR Systems was also allegedly hacked. The company provides electronic poll books for a number of jurisdictions which communicate in real time with each county’s voter registration system. According to the company’s web site VR Systems serves almost all of Florida’s counties and 14 other states.“
In Wisconsin: Lost by 27,000 votes. BUT: “But Clinton won only counties using all-paper ballots, the computer voting experts said. In the counties using a mix of electronic and paper-based voting systems that President Obama won in 2012, Clinton lost by 1-2 percent. In the Obama counties using all paperless machines, she lost by 10 to 15 percent”
In North Carolina: Lost by 178,000. “… what happened across the state on Election Day has become the focus of serious concern for the election integrity experts. In one Democratic epicenter, Durham County, the state’s voter registration database and e-poll books tied into it were down, prompting long lines, delays and necessitating people fill out provisional ballots. The data was also scrambled, with voter rolls in the wrong locations, people tagged as voting when they had not, and people not on lists even though they had their state registration cards. Those snafus were reported to election protection call centers.”
“… if it was the latter, who was behind the cyberattack? These questions must be answered immediately, especially if the answers lead to questions about the integrity of the election process in other jurisdictions.
In Michigan: Lost by 11,000 votes. “Election night’s unofficial returns found Trump ahead by 11,000 votes. But 87,000 ballots did not show a presidential vote, the election integrity team said, which broke a 49,000 empty-vote record from previous presidential election”
In Pennsylvania: Lost by 68,000 votes. “… The concern is that 16 counties are still using aging countywide tabulators which Finnish computer security specialist Harry Hursti has shown can be easily hacked to change the reported results. These computers use old versions of Microsoft operating systems, which have security vulnerabilities that have never been fixed.”
9. Unsurprisingly, in many places, HILLARY won in counties using paper votes but lost in those using electronic in key states. For example: North Carolina and Wisconsin .
MOST IMPORTANTLY: call the Dept of Justice comment line at 202 353 1555 and leave a message asking to #AuditTheVote due to Russian interference. DO IT RIGHT NOW, PLEASE. CALLS ARE BEING TALLIED.
Also: Follow @AndreaChalupa and @sarahkendzior on Twitter.
Your truly,
Concerned Canadian
I just did this and then called my Senator to ask if he plans on doing anything about this (obviously not but I was told it’ll be discussed).
IF YOU LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN IMMEDIATELY. NOVEMBER 23 IS THE LAST DAY TO CALL AN AUDIT. Penn had some of the most obvious signs of foul play!
Even for those who don’t believe it will change the result…
Don’t you want to KNOW?
Exactly. I mean just think how much time and money was probably spent checking Weiner’s emails. I kinda think this is probably a bit more important.
For those in PA, this tweet is relevant:
“If anyone in PA has petitioned their county to #auditthevote, NYT reporter would like to speak with you. Email me: gabriel@nytimes.com”
Companies like Google and Facebook have 67 days to minimize their data collection and retention before Trump is sworn in. That’s 67 days during which they can take a hard, close look at how much of their data they actually need to do their jobs, and how much they’re storing because hard drives are cheap and someone might have a cool idea down the line somewhere.
Dutch governments used their registers to record the homes of ethnic minorities in its border; these files could have been used by the Nazis to figure out which doors to break down. That’s why, on 27 March 1943, the Dutch resistance set fire to the municipal records hall, why the firefighters who responded made sure that they kept watering the building long after the fire was out, destroying any records that survived.
My bill would prohibit the administration from violating the constitutional rights of Americans because everyone should be treated equally under our laws
Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) introduced a bill today that would “ensure individuals of all faiths are protected from the establishment of a national religious registry” according to a press release from the House.
The bill, called the No Religious Registry Act, would “would prohibit the Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security and any United States government official from establishing or utilizing a registry for the purposes of classifying individuals on the basis of religious affiliation.”
Thanks Suzan! We’re so glad you represent our state and we are huge huge fans.
A Washington Post–ABC News poll found that 18% of voters — 33% of Clinton supporters and 1% of Trump supporters — think Trump was not the legitimate winner of the election. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has called on Congress to investigate the Russian cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee and the election.
There are reasons for concern. According to the director of national intelligence, the leaked emails from the DNC were “intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.” The director of national intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Security Agency concluded that the Russian government is behind the DNC email hack and that Russian hackers attacked U.S. voter registration databases.
We know that the national results could be tipped by manipulating the vote count in a relatively small number of jurisdictions — a few dozen spread across a few key states. We know that the vast majority of local elections officials have limited resources to detect or defend against cyberattacks. And while pre-election polls have large uncertainties, they were consistently off. And various aspects of the preliminary results, such as a high rate of undervotes for president, have aroused suspicion.
Computers counted the vast majority of the 130 million votes cast in this year’s election. Even without hacking, mistakes are inevitable. Computers can’t divine voter intent perfectly; computers can be misconfigured; and software can have bugs.
Did human error, computer glitches, hacking, or other problems change the outcome? While there is, as yet, no compelling evidence, the news about hacking and deliberate interference makes it worth finding out.
I wish people would stop mocking the shitty trump cup thing as a “protest” and being like “lol republicans dont know how to protest” over it because that’s not what it is. And mocking or minimizing it reduces its gravity or severity, gets us to stop taking it seriously. We can’t afford to treat even disorganized reactionaries like cartoon bumbling clowns. Their intentions are harmful.
It’s not a protest. It’s (whether they’d like to consider it as such or not) an incompetent try at psychological terrorism. But the intent is there, regardless of execution. It’s an attempt to force a service employee to yell out Donald’s name and remind everyone present who won, assert dominance over people in the area who resist or rightly maintain criticism of Donald. It’s like teabagging. And the approach in this case is founded in hatred of and entitlement over service employees. It is a creepy claiming of a neutral space as ‘for’ their demagogue and as his followers for them. Even though it’s pretty clear Donald doesn’t give a shit about them in the least.
It’s not a protest. it’s straight-up aggression. It just doesn’t involve physical violence or something that could be considered criminal. It’s not inept bungling resistance against forces that aren’t there. It’s hamfisted but effective bullying of people who are there.
This is what I’ve been trying to find the words for.
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