{"id":7475,"date":"2018-02-08T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:41:51","slug":"the-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2018\/02\/08\/the-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRussians Penetrated Our 2016 Election<\/a>\u201d makes a great headline for NBC but it falls a bit short when it comes to facts.<\/p>\n

You can listen to several video clips embedded in the NBC story but beyond a general statement by various so-called election experts \u2013 there are no facts, examples, documents, or even a hint of a possible way Russians penetrated, hacked, or peeked at a single voter roll of checklist.<\/p>\n

I have no idea yet if the journalists who came up with this headline only tale of Russian espionage, but one must wonder if some unnamed, former British spy gave them the story. Three journalists, Cynthia McFadden, William M. Arkin and Kevin Monahan started with a shocking headline, added repeated accusations, and assembled some video commentary but gave no clue as to what defines hacking, penetration, or abuse of an election, ballot, or any document or device in any state in the country.<\/p>\n

I look for evidence of voter fraud. I can provide the names of double voters here in New Hampshire who illegally \u201cpenetrate\u201d our elections. If Russians wanted to penetrate New Hampshire elections all they have to do is walk into any polling place and vote. It is that simple. The only paper trail they would leave would be a ballot. Why go to the trouble of hacking?<\/p>\n

New Hampshire provides plenty of room for Russian voters who would want to throw an election. Former US Senator Kelley Ayotte lost her seat by 1,017 votes. She didn\u2019t even have the good grace to ask for a recount on behalf of her supporters. No one is going track anyone or prosecute them.<\/p>\n

Maybe the Russians did it? Maybe the Russians swayed the New Hampshire US Senate race! I have as much evidence that is a possibility than any headline NBC journalists can come up with \u2013 and it is more plausible.<\/p>\n

When I was working with James O\u2019Keefe of Project Veritas, they caught four paid Australians from the Australian Socialist Party, on video, working for Bernie Sanders. They could have easily walked into any polling place in this state and voted without fear of prosecution. NH does not provide any documents with which the public could ever find out.<\/p>\n

Russians hacking US elections indeed. NH can\u2019t stop people from Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Vermont from altering our elections for Federal office. Russians are the least of our worries. <\/p>\n

What Americans should be worried about is the list of journalists who came up with and perpetuate the Russian hacking myth.<\/p>\n

Cynthia McFadden \u2013 Columbia Law School<\/a><\/p>\n

William Arkin \u2013 University of Maryland, College Park, Policy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kevin Monahan \u2013 award winner NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n

These people have in the past provided evidence for stories. When it comes to \u201cRussians Penetrating US Elections\u201d – nothing.<\/p>\n

Makes you wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cRussians Penetrated Our 2016 Election\u201d makes a great headline for NBC but it falls a bit short when it comes to facts. You can listen to several video clips embedded in the NBC story but beyond a general statement by various so-called election experts \u2013 there are no facts, examples, documents, or even a hint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-us","category-vote-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7476,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}