The Russia hoax was never a hoax. Election was influenced

washingtonpost.com

3 points·Farbodkhz··5 comments

"whether by disrupting online influence campaigns, securing critical infrastructure or requiring paper trails and risk-limiting audits at the ballot box"

If we really want to stop election interference, we should have voter ID laws in all states. This is one point of security failure that would make it very easy for foreign countries or anyone else to commit voter fraud.

If certain groups of people don't have ID, let's spend money on fixing that.

"Online influence campaigns" are meaningless. Do we know that they actually worked?

Unless we can track exact voter choice back to a fake ad on Facebook posted by a foreign enemy, I'm not really convinced it did much of anything.

Our time and money would be better spent educating the public on spotting fake ads, because it will always be a cat and mouse game.

I'm also curious why we aren't focusing more on China in terms of interference? They have been on a buying spree for the last few years and have major stakes in many media companies, including Reddit.

My only objection to voter ID is that every serious proposal I've seen for it has huge, intentionally-chosen voids designed to prevent certain groups from voting. Any voter ID requirement has to come with a federal mandate to issue each registered voter an acceptable ID, or it's just more election interference.

Not present in the article: any explanation of how the election was influenced. But then, that's not important, is it?

As if there's any measurement you'd accept

What Trump is calling the "Russian Hoax" is the unfounded allegations of collusion between his campaign and Russia, and the misuse of FISA and other processes to attack him. Has there ever been any real dispute that countries such as Russia have sought undue influence?

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