EXCLUSIVE: Top Election Official Found ‘No Credible Evidence of Election Tampering

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EXCLUSIVE: Top Election Official Found ‘No Credible Evidence of Election Tampering’

 

Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson will tell the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Wednesday that officials saw no “credible evidence” of election hacking or vote-counting “subject to manipulation in any state or locality in the 2016 election cycle,” The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has learned.

 

Lawson, the incoming president of the non-partisan National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), will pointedly emphasize that former President Barack Obama’s administration never warned election officials of a threat to electoral systems.

 

The NASS represents 50 Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors who are responsible for overseeing election machinery across the country. There are no national elections in America, as presidential and congressional balloting is conducted in 50 separate state and district elections.

 

“No major cybersecurity issues were reported on Election Day: November 8, 2016,” Lawson will say, according to an advance copy of her prepared testimony obtained by TheDCNF.

 

Her testimony is in stark contrast to a flurry of media reports alleging Russia cracked as many as 39 state election systems.

 

A June 13 Bloomberg report, for example, charged that Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election “was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed.” Citing three anonymous sources, Bloomberg claimed that “in all, the Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states.”

 

Lawson is prepared to tell a very different story, stating, “each time (Department of Homeland Security) Secretary Johnson was directly asked about specific, credible threats and each time he confirmed that none existed.”

 

She will tell the Senate committee that foreign-based hackers could gain access to voter registration systems in Arizona and Illinois, but “no data was deleted or modified as part of the breaches.” She added that those systems are never tied to vote-tabulation machinery.

 

“Voting machines are not connected to the Internet or networked in any way,” Lawson states in her prepared testimony.

Lawson adds that hacking of voter registration lists is not a problem since those lists often are sold to vendors or given to political campaigns.

 

“Finding that hackers accessed or copied voter file information is by itself not enormously significant—interested parties can often legally purchase voting roll information without hacking, as it’s considered a matter of public record in most states,” she will say.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/20/exclusive-top-election-official-found-no-credible-evidence-of-election-tampering/

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Just now, jg121783 said:

.A June 13 Bloomberg report, for example, charged that Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election “was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed.” Citing three anonymous sources, Bloomberg claimed that “in all, the Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states.”

 

Lawson is prepared to tell a very different story, stating, “each time (Department of Homeland Security) Secretary Johnson was directly asked about specific, credible threats and each time he confirmed that none existed.”

I wonder who is more credible here. Bloomberg with their annynomous sources or the president of the National Association of Secretaries of State. I bet the left will go with the anonymous sources because they back their made up narrative.

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6 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

EXCLUSIVE: Top Election Official Found ‘No Credible Evidence of Election Tampering’

Just an observation. This whole Russia election tampering thing is comically similar to watching republicans go coo coo for cocoa puffs over non-existent voter fraud. It's nice to see the shoe on the other foot for a change.

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5 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

Just an observation. This whole Russia election tampering thing is comically similar to watching republicans go coo coo for cocoa puffs over non-existent voter fraud. It's nice to see the shoe on the other foot for a change.

Sounds like the shoes are on both feet.

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All of these politicians need a shoe up where the sun don't shine.  Instead of dealing with real problems, they are wasting time on irrelevant garbage that has no bearing on America and its people.

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3 minutes ago, Eric-Pris said:

All of these politicians need a shoe up where the sun don't shine.  Instead of dealing with real problems, they are wasting time on irrelevant garbage that has no bearing on America and its people.

Oh it has bearing on the American people and the tactic is working wonderfully to keep the nation divided.

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9 minutes ago, Eric-Pris said:

All of these politicians need a shoe up where the sun don't shine.  Instead of dealing with real problems, they are wasting time on irrelevant garbage that has no bearing on America and its people.

You may want to add a few people in the media to that list as well.

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29 minutes ago, Teddy B said:

Oh it has bearing on the American people and the tactic is working wonderfully to keep the nation divided.

I think most people don't care about Russia.  It has no significance in my life.  Only the liberal media keeps bringing them up.  Btw-It's not Russia that's keeping the nation divided, it's the partisan politics, and the supporting media for each side.

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I think the liberals got a slow start today. I was expecting someone to attack the source of the article to deflect away from the information in it.

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3 minutes ago, Eric-Pris said:

I think most people don't care about Russia.  It has no significance in my life.  Only the liberal media keeps bringing them up.  Btw-It's not Russia that's keeping the nation divided, it's the partisan politics, and the supporting media for each side.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was referring to when I said the "tactic".

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9 minutes ago, Eric-Pris said:

I think most people don't care about Russia.  It has no significance in my life.  Only the liberal media keeps bringing them up.  Btw-It's not Russia that's keeping the nation divided, it's the partisan politics, and the supporting media for each side.

The media was supposed to be the information conduit that helped bridge that divide.. I guess all those years last century teaching about the forewarnings of yellow journalism went to the wayside, and the media prefers to simply become obsolete. Now we all sit around in our own echo chambers not listening to anyone else, exactly as the two parties and their PR wanted. So be it. 

Edited June 21, 2017 by IAMX

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19 minutes ago, Eric-Pris said:

I think most people don't care about Russia.  It has no significance in my life.  Only the liberal media keeps bringing them up.  Btw-It's not Russia that's keeping the nation divided, it's the partisan politics, and the supporting media for each side.

I disagree with the interest level of the American people but I heartily agree with this statement

 

"It's not Russia that's keeping the nation divided, it's the partisan politics, and the supporting media for each side."

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3 hours ago, Eric-Pris said:

All of these politicians need a shoe up where the sun don't shine.  Instead of dealing with real problems, they are wasting time on irrelevant garbage that has no bearing on America and its people.

They're still yet to figure out it's Americans who voted Trump into the WH rather than Russians. 

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4 hours ago, IAMX said:

They're still yet to figure out it's Americans who voted Trump into the WH rather than Russians. 

If a Democrat ever loses an election it is because of the Russians. And to say otherwise means you are a Russian agent who is obstructing justice. Didn't you know that?

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On 6/21/2017 at 4:41 PM, jg121783 said:

If a Democrat ever loses an election it is because of the Russians. And to say otherwise means you are a Russian agent who is obstructing justice. Didn't you know that?

Aye.. some wonderful quotes of the posts I can see:

 

 

On 4/13/2017 at 6:31 PM, bcking said:

Who is Putin again? Does he clean the rooms in Trump Tower or something? Probably hard to remember meeting him.

 

On 3/4/2017 at 3:45 PM, ready4ONE said:

I am sure that the majority Party arranged the seating, and Putin wants to keep an eye on his new so-called President.

 

On 1/6/2017 at 6:06 PM, Dakine10 said:

  The point is we are getting attacked by a foreign entity. There will never be a way to assess the influence they had on the election nor does there need to be. We do need to determine their capability and if possible, how long they have been doing this. We do need to take steps to prevent it from happening again. We need to respond appropriately and for those things to happen everyone needs to be on the same page.

 

   Trump has to be on board with this, because if not, he runs the risk of looking like he's complicit. Everyone knows he has ties to Putin. Russia also had their own reasons to want Trump to win. If Trump was an innocent beneficiary of Russian hacking then so be it, that's not Trump's fault. The longer he opposes this, the more likely he gets dragged into a no win situation. He's going to be butting heads with the CIA over this, with congress, and eventually with the people. It's not going to go away, and Trump's not going to be the golden child forever.

 

On 12/23/2016 at 9:06 AM, bowens44 said:

It's Putin's White House now. trump is Putin's little dog....

 

On 12/14/2016 at 0:00 PM, bowens44 said:

Trump isn't president yet despite the best efforts of Putin's best efforts. I continue to amazed how unconcerned conservatives are with fact their candidate colleduded with Russian intelegence organizations to manipulate the US election. Trumps presidency,if it happens, will never be legitimate.

 

On 12/11/2016 at 11:01 AM, ccneat said:

On 12/11/2016 at 10:25 AM, Nature Boy Flair said:

Maybe Putin recognizes that Radical Islam is the threat that may bring the world down and he is tired of fighting it alone. Maybe he wanted someone with a set that was not a Radical sympathizer in the white house.

Putin now has a friend in America.

 

On 12/11/2016 at 11:07 AM, ccneat said:

For brief periods the Athenians set aside democracy and adopted a single ruler for the good of the nation, we are entering such a period.

 

 

Edited June 23, 2017 by Penguin_ie