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We're totally ready for online voting guys -- (link) -- (edited)

Posted by ML (aka Iadodger) Nov 7 '16, 17:05

The U.S. government is gearing up for an unprecedented effort to protect Tuesday's presidential election from cyber attack, U.S. officials told NBC News.

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The concern is so high, intelligence officials told NBC, that for the first time, hundreds of military and intelligence cyber experts who work out of top secret facilities, including underground bunkers, will be monitoring intelligence about a U.S. presidential election. They will react to any threat to the federal government's communication and command systems.

"American officials are worried Russia will use its cyber capabilities to try to disrupt the presidential election itself, possibly by releasing fake documents and creating bogus social media accounts designed to spread misinformation." (www.nbcnews.com)

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online voting is effectively (currently) impossible if you want to keep it anonymous. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 17:42
President McPresidentyface -- nm - Qale Nov 7, 17:35
We need to go to multi day voting. So one cyber mess one day doesn't compromise the election. -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 17:10 28
- we have weeks of early voting in many states already -- nm - mr monkey Nov 7, 17:12 1
  - If you want to drive to Downey -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 17:13
- National holiday with no-excuse absentee voting in advance. - ML Nov 7, 17:12 25
  - generally speaking: Republicans (as a party) will never go for it. it's a path to defeat for them. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 17:49 6
    - It's not really a path to defeat - all they'd have to do is change their policies to appeal to more people. But as we've seen the last few elections, - Roger More Nov 7, 17:59 5
      - LOL -- nm - Mara Nov 7, 18:34
      - sure, but that seems just as unlikely. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 18:11 3
        
        at least until they get the absolute crap knocked out of them (maybe after two more years of blocking supreme court noms?) -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 18:15 2
        
        I thought that demographic trends and the internal debate would have settled this years ago. But the primary system, lack of competitive districts and - Roger More Nov 7, 18:41 1
        
        yeah, and it's sort of the nature of ideologue conservatives to stick to the old ways. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 18:49
  - Three day weekend with voting from Saturday through Monday. -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 17:22 6
    - And no reporting on returns until Friday night. -- nm - Max Nov 7, 17:27 4
      - And votes halt and adjust using a reasonable multiplier, damnit! -- nm - Qale Nov 7, 17:36 2
        
        Ha! :-) -- nm - Krusty Nov 7, 18:10
        
        Hahahaha -- nm - ML Galaxy Nov 7, 17:50
      - I'd say no reporting until Monday night when the polls are closed for good. You want to wait four days or did you just make a typo? -- nm* - Krusty Nov 7, 17:30
    - Yes -- nm - Bacon Nov 7, 17:27
  - (ditch President's Day every other year to compensate) - ML Nov 7, 17:14 10
    - This sounds like some shitty quote of mine you'd find on the internet. -- nm - Abe Lincoln Nov 7, 17:23
    - They already smashed them together. Get your day back somewhere else. - Krusty Nov 7, 17:23 5
      - Fine. Pick a more useless federal holiday and ditch that one every other year. -- nm - ML Nov 7, 17:29 4
        
        Madea's Arbor Day! -- nm - prayformojo Nov 7, 17:50
        
        Why? Some things are just worth doing themselves and not at the expense of anything else. -- nm - Max Nov 7, 17:30 2
        
        You must be productive and earn for the country. You have enough days off! -- nm - Che Krustyvara Nov 7, 17:33
        
        American Idol the election 1-800-VOTE-NOW "1 for Trump, 2 for Clinton" -- nm - budice Nov 7, 17:33
    - the fuck I would. - Abe Lincoln SI Nov 7, 17:21 2
      - Abe already has to share his birthday with that bastard slave owner, Washington! -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 19:15
      - Honest Abe was pretty good, he was pretty good -- nm - @RealDonaldTrump Nov 7, 17:22

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