Protest Voter Hacking

Yesterday on the Anniversary of when a woman was killed during a protest involving White Supremacists and other citizens we saw a change of events. Thankfully it was peaceful for the most part. No arrests were made and especially that no one got killed again. The White Supremacists were a few dozen folks who were met with a few thousand others who protested their activities. If anything, the only thing we learned is that protesting is all we have left now and it does in part send a clear message when the messages from our government is one sided and tainted.

We need to somehow protest the attack that has been proven on our election process. Our votes need to count no matter what candidate you are in favor of. It is easy to protest a person but how do you protest a cyberattack? Our Democracy is now being hacked! There is enough evidence to prove that the Russians meddled in our past Presidential election. Even if we put Trump’s antics aside with his son, collusion, his cabinet and inner circle being bribed by the Russians, how can we stop this nonsense? We now have digital battlegrounds without weapons of war and real people to fight the war. The assault is happening in our State’s Board of Elections on their computers.

What the hell is a cyberattack anyway? Our state election computers have voter information on everyone who casts a vote. The voter registration data base has your name, address and a record of the times you have voted in various elections and more importantly the information that you are a registered Democrat or registered Republican. It is known that Trump loves Russia and the Republicans run everything in our government now from the House, Senate, Congress and now the Supreme Court. Trump loves dictators and wants to be one. What could be better than also attack the records of Democrats making it harder for them to vote? Can our worn out protesting shoes stop this latest assault on Democracy?

Obama knew of the attacks but said little about it because he did not want to seem to be biased towards Hillary. He found out about the attacks just at the same time the video was revealed that Trump likes to grab women by the pussy. That should have been the nail in Trump’s coffin but we know the election results now. Trump is our President and is doing everything he can to remain our President for the next four years too with campaign rallies three times a week followed by 50 negative Tweets about everything that is not pro-Trump.

What worries election security watchers most is that Trump is not being proactive enough in its work against hackers in our states Board of Elections. In February 2018, Adm. Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he had not been instructed by Trump or Defense Secretary James Mattis to go after Russian hackers. Our Republican based Russian loving President and his men are not taking offensive actions to prevent further attacks on our election systems. We need to have our protesting energy at hand if our next elections are compromised. The will of the people not under the influence of bribes or power must succeed.