> Man, I wish those pesky Russians would stop interfering with U.S. elections. Last time, Boris and Natasha were outside the polling place and wouldn't let me in.
Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration rolls. It has not been revealed whether or not they changed anything in the last election, but if voter rolls were compromised they could change voter registration data and cause people to be turned away from the booth on election day.
> Oh, wait. No, I was perfectly able to vote for the candidates of my choice based on the research I'd done as an informed voter. I wasn't prevented from exercising my right to vote at all.
Even if Russia election interference efforts didn't personally affect you, it doesn't mean they didn't affect others. And bottom line is that if you want to preserve your sovereignty as a nation, you don't want your adversaries hacking your voting infrastructure, hacking political campaigns, channeling money illegally to political entities, and disseminating targeted falsehoods in social media. Those are all efforts designed to subvert your democracy.
> And it's not just the governments. Look at the millions both the Trump and Clinton campaigns and allied organizations received from overseas donors and politicians (especially UK).
It is explicitly illegal for a presidential campaign to receive donations from a foreign national. It is also illegal for advertisers to accept money for political ads from foreign nationals.
>Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration rolls. It has not been revealed whether or not they changed anything in the last election, but if voter rolls were compromised they could change voter registration data and cause people to be turned away from the booth on
election day.
Actually "Jeanette Manfra, head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, told NBC the Russians only successfully infiltrated a few of those states. It's not believed that the Russians were able to alter the voter rolls"
And that's if one believes that they did in the first place, on the claims of such state agencies -- the same ones that target some country or another when its the enemy du jour (WMD anyone?) and need BS stories to justify their budgets.
Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration rolls. It has not been revealed whether or not they changed anything in the last election, but if voter rolls were compromised they could change voter registration data and cause people to be turned away from the booth on election day.
> Oh, wait. No, I was perfectly able to vote for the candidates of my choice based on the research I'd done as an informed voter. I wasn't prevented from exercising my right to vote at all.
Even if Russia election interference efforts didn't personally affect you, it doesn't mean they didn't affect others. And bottom line is that if you want to preserve your sovereignty as a nation, you don't want your adversaries hacking your voting infrastructure, hacking political campaigns, channeling money illegally to political entities, and disseminating targeted falsehoods in social media. Those are all efforts designed to subvert your democracy.
> And it's not just the governments. Look at the millions both the Trump and Clinton campaigns and allied organizations received from overseas donors and politicians (especially UK).
It is explicitly illegal for a presidential campaign to receive donations from a foreign national. It is also illegal for advertisers to accept money for political ads from foreign nationals.