Russian Email Domains Target US Polling Sites with Bomb Threats, FBI Says (theverge.com) 57
The FBI warned on Tuesday that polling stations across multiple U.S. states received fake bomb threats sent from Russian email domains, forcing brief evacuations at two voting sites in Georgia's Fulton County.
The threats, which targeted locations in Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, have not been deemed credible, the FBI said in a statement. The evacuated Fulton County sites reopened after 30 minutes, prompting local officials to seek extended voting hours beyond the 7 p.m. ET deadline.
The incidents follow Friday's joint intelligence warning from the FBI, ODNI, and CISA about Russian-created fake videos aimed at undermining election integrity. The agencies also reported Russian actors are spreading false claims about planned election fraud by U.S. officials.
The threats, which targeted locations in Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, have not been deemed credible, the FBI said in a statement. The evacuated Fulton County sites reopened after 30 minutes, prompting local officials to seek extended voting hours beyond the 7 p.m. ET deadline.
The incidents follow Friday's joint intelligence warning from the FBI, ODNI, and CISA about Russian-created fake videos aimed at undermining election integrity. The agencies also reported Russian actors are spreading false claims about planned election fraud by U.S. officials.
Yes, definitely (Score:2, Funny)
Russia would use something so easily traceable, after all, how much TCPIP can you run on a washing machine microcontroller? Also, in this world, no one spoofs IP addresses or runs propaganda stories for some kind of ulterior motive...
Re:Yes, definitely (Score:4, Informative)
Unlike the two fake videos Russia has already put out [cbsnews.com] about election integrity. Because there's no way they'd do something such as put out fake bomb threats. Just like they stated they had no intention of invading [bbc.co.uk] and attacking Ukraine.
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Re:Yes, definitely (Score:5, Interesting)
The premise required for your statement is that Russia would have a need to hide the actions against the US.
What if Russia wants to make sure that the American people know there are consequences for aiding Ukraine? We Americans are not subtle and maybe Putin is just making sure we're all on the same page. He did promise to punish the West on multiple occasions.
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The premise required for your statement is that Russia would have a need to hide the actions against the US.
What if Russia wants to make sure that the American people know there are consequences for aiding Ukraine?
Russia absolutely needs to hide it. They stand to lose MAGA support and risk massively increased support for military spending to help Ukraine if they start being overtly openly hostile to the US. This is especially the case when contemplating conducting any kind of attack or threats of attacks against the US.
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They only need plausible deniability, something 50000BTU_barbecue is all to keen to grant them. "It can't be us, because we didn't try very hard to hide the fact."
In this kind of campaign, it's not all that important how ninjariffic you are. The vast majority of people who will have a reaction to this news are simply not interested in the details - they will assign blame and form reactions based on their political biases:
- it can't be russia because A
- it must be russia because B
The system w
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They only need plausible deniability, something 50000BTU_barbecue is all to keen to grant them. "It can't be us, because we didn't try very hard to hide the fact."
I'm not sure about this site anymore. I'm just getting tired of people abusing the moderation system to express their disapproval or disagreement. I agree with you, my commentary contemplated overt acts.
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You're talking about a country where a convicted fraudster, sex offender, adulterer and golf cheat with more daddy issues than words in his vocabulary is still considered leader material by half the electorate...
I don't think Trump and MAGA are necessarily synonymous for example MAGA crowds have repeatedly boooed Trump over covid vaccines and openly shit on him over his administrations bump stock bans. If they see they are being attacked by Russia its not going to matter what Trump thinks.
Russia could drive a tank column through the Lincoln Memorial and drop half a dozen nukes on NYC and there would still be people who would deny to their last breath that it ever happened.
I don't think this is the case. You can of course come up with covert scenarios where they can get away with it but /w overt attacks against the country I think you'd see things change on a dime.
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Yeah man, that's how the Ford family is able to bypass the sanctions. They sell them dishwashers and washing machines with extremely sophisticated chips that are designed to be used in military-grade applications, like they did back in dubya dubya two.
Already proven wrong? (Score:2)
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FAKE NEWS
You can't really have a fake bomb threat (Score:3)
This might be a quirk of American English though so if you're not American it might not make sense. I don't know maybe overseas the phrase bomb threat might be used when there's an actual bomb. But in America we don't use that phrase for anything but a fake threat designed to cause confusion and delays.
Thanks Vlad! (Score:1)
I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this bomb threat!
Re:Already proven wrong? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm old enough to remember when Russia was the great enemy of US conservatives. Now, some US conservatives seem to be Russia's greatest apologists.
Re:Already proven wrong? (Score:5, Informative)
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Conversely, look at China.. conservatives loved it when it was a way for Americans to make piles of money, but when they started cracking down on foreign investors owning Chinese companies, they became the great evil.
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US conservatives really only care about two things : God and Capitalism.
Well, at least you're half right.
Re:Already proven wrong? (Score:4, Informative)
They don't even hide it. Visiting Russia on July 4th. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06... [npr.org]
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A Georgia man was arrested on Nov 4th for bomb threats made on Nov 5th? Either the police have a time machine or these are different incidents.
Pretty clear that Trump (Score:5, Insightful)
It boggles the mind to think how bad the kompromat they have on him must be given that he sheds all normal accusations (and criminal convictions) like Teflon man.
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is a Russian asset.
It boggles the mind to think how bad the kompromat they have on him must be given that he sheds all normal accusations (and criminal convictions) like Teflon man.
HaHaHaHaHa.
Oh, the next four years are gonna be fun. Especially in this place.
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It turns out he's not smart enough to be an asset. More like a useful idiot. https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news... [aber.ac.uk]
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Probably more of a useful idiot than an asset. He likes Putin because Putin helped him win, and he admires dictators.
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There really is not doubt about that. His increasingly panicky attempts in the last few days (je starts to resemble the Joker, IMO) and him already preparing a campaign of lies in case he loses are quite telling. They probably have him on camera raping a few children or something like that.
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Have you thought about having a Dr. adjust your dosages? No, I'm really serious because you sound like someone with some seriously unfounded illusions floating around in your head that are not healthy.
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Yep, keep telling yourself the _others_ are the insane ones. That will help...
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There really is not doubt about that. His increasingly panicky attempts in the last few days (je starts to resemble the Joker, IMO) and him already preparing a campaign of lies in case he loses are quite telling. They probably have him on camera raping a few children or something like that.
He started whining about fraud in elections even the first time he won. He thought it should have been by way more because he couldn't believe anyone wouldn't vote for him. That has little to do with proving or disproving "Russian Asset" status. He's just a self-worshipping guy, and always has been. Not that I'm saying he isn't a Russian asset. I have no more proof than anybody else either direction. I'd say it's much more likely that the Putinator sees the bumbling fool fuck up and takes advantage, rather
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Well, maybe we will find out now. I do not see any chance that these 4 years will go well.
Achievement: Moderated from +5 to 0 in minutes (Score:2)
Also clear that slashdot participants are as polarized as the US population.
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is a Russian asset.
It boggles the mind to think how bad the kompromat they have on him must be given that he sheds all normal accusations (and criminal convictions) like Teflon man.
A Russian asset? Do you really think the Russians would rely on someone that lazy and incompetent?
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Re:Um (Score:5, Informative)
At least out here in CA, same-day registration doesn't let you skip any of the checks. It lets you, as an individual say "yes I am a citizen and I am not banned from voting." Once you say that and provide a modicum of contact info, they let you cast a provisional ballot and conduct the normal validation steps. If that all goes through smoothly, great! You're registered and they add your ballot to the total. If you lied, or you're missing something, they'll throw your provisional ballot out and possibly charge you with a crime.
It would be VERY silly to just take everyone at their word.
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The incidents follow Friday's joint intelligence warning from the FBI, ODNI, and CISA about Russian-created fake videos aimed at undermining election integrity.
I would think that letting people register to "vote" [apnews.com] with just a student ID and a personal (false) claim to being a citizen would be more of a threat to election integrity than some video, but what do I know.
Unlike the multiple cases of men casting ballots [foxnews.com] for their dead parents [timesleader.com] or husbands voting for their wives [cbsnews.com] (after killing them).
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Did you actually read the story you linked to?
If anything, the story indicates the system worked as it should.
Do you also worry about dead people voting for Trump [msn.com]?
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Did you actually read the story you linked to?
If anything, the story indicates the system worked as it should.
Yes, I did read it. We only even know about it because he spontaneously confessed for some reason.
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Huh. And they were arrested, almost like they don't 'just let people'. But I get it, conservatives have been against students voting for decades, so any false narrative to make it harder is great in their book.
He was only arrested because he spontaneously confessed. And the story says his ballot will count, so yes, they DID let him.
But I'm sure that 100% of people who did that will spontaneously confess ...
Leonard of lawful masses on YouTube (Score:3)
These ones might not be Russians in Georgia there are five people who have been challenging thousands of voter registrations and they briefly had a website up where you could easily de-register someone. It's painfully obvious the secretary of State in Georgia is in on all that and allowing it to happen.
Basically the old way of cheating in election was to send broken voting machines all around but I think people are too spread out too easily do that and so people who want to cheat by deciding who gets to vote and who doesn't have switched to using voter registration to do it.
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Remember that, prior to the 2020 election, it was the Pennsylvania GOP who pushed through a law requiring all work on vote tabulation had to wait until after voting closes on election day... and then they started complaining about how long it was taking to get a final result.
A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin (Score:3, Informative)
Trump openly shits on our allies and fawns over dictators.
Re:A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin (Score:4, Insightful)
It's also a vote for a massive refugee crisis.
What do you think will happen once Trump cuts off aid to Ukraine and lets Russia conquer a nation of 33 million. Would you stick around as Russians banned your native language, your religion, and regularly "disappeared" anyone who got too loud about their Ukrainian identity?
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Empty Bomb Threats (Score:2)
They're lying (Score:2)
Fuck your bomb threats (Score:2)
Pix or you didn't plant it.
If some retard clacking away at a keyboard somewhere says "bomb" and you shut down your school/hospital/whatever every single time, like clockwork, who's the idiot?