Exactly what is "election meddling"?

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  1. Jestsayin

    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It appears to be a term without a clear definition. I have heard the leftie media using the words but as of yet no one can produce a single voter that said their vote was changed because of "Russian" interference.
    If any of this is factual and a foreign power tried to insert a particular individual into office how do they go about it and how can it be effectively stopped?
    If it is election integrity you seek, I expect you to support full photo ID cards before you go into the booth and I also demand a paper ballot backup. I know even the alt-left cannot disagree with that but how does a country stop outside "election meddling" given the depth and scope of Al Gores greatest contribution to mankind known as the internet.
     
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    Election meddling is when one candidate slings mud and tells lies about their opponent while bragging and telling half-truths about themselves. It's also called campaigning.
     
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    Go ask an Israeli..
     
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    When the other guy attempts to swing our election in a countless number of ways it's an act of war. When we interfere in the other guy's election, it's a justifiable strategic imperative.
     
  6. Jestsayin

    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Thank you for your response but Wikipedia's definition is nothing but gobbledygook. Every single campaign ad, lawn sign, or nightly "news" program is trying to do the same thing. Clinton outspent Trump so we know money does not win or lose elections so did the Russians go door to door threatening people?
    If you are implying that a bunch of democrats are so ****ing stupid that because some "Russians" changed their vote from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, as much as I would like to believe their IQ is that low, I find it very hard to accept. If in fact you have a few, please present them for all to see.
     
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    This is gobbledygook ending with your obvious bias, not an effort to find the truth. You've already found it.
     
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    "Meddling" is a term the dems have came up with to create a phony narrative. They need it to cover up for the fact they were idiots and fell for a phishing scam.
     
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    I don't think you have to show that votes were actually changed to prove meddling. Obama's financing and setting up an anti- Netanyahu campaign office in Israel is clearly meddling but I don't know if it actually changed any votes.
     
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    The media's constant bashing of republicans and Trump is obviously plausible deniability for dem politicians in fear of losing more seats in the future. Normally in an election year senior dem politicians do the bashing, quoted by the media.

    The media has taken over the dem party now.

    Steve
     
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    It is pretty much what the Obama regime did before the 2016 election.
     
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    Election meddling is foreigners voting in our elections.
     
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    Telling people the truth is election meddling, apparently..
     
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    Election meddling is what Obama did to Israel.
     
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    Funny how you ask the question, and then you answer it incorrectly. The "election meddling" you have heard about is the illegal attempt to affect the outcome of the election.

    This should answer your questions

    https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

    Please quote the Article of the Constitution that says that you need a photo ID to vote.
     
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    Its when Hillary Clinton loses a Presidential election that FBI and CIA had promised her that she would win, because they were going to stop Trump by any means necessary.
     
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    So let me get this right:

    1. The DNC/Hillary had been sending emails that contained damning information about the actions of the DNC/Hillary.
    2. These emails, if released to the public, would expose the unscrupulous behavior of the DNC/Hillary.
    3. The exposure of the unscrupulous behavior would show that Hillary was not fit to be the POTUS.
    4. Once the public was exposed to the unscrupulous behavior, it became obvious that Hillary could not be trusted to run the country.

    If the unscrupulous behavior had not been exposed, then unscrupulous Hillary might possibly be POTUS right now? And she would be continuing her unscrupulous behavior in the most powerful office in the country? So it seems the leaked emails which exposed the corruption of the DNC/Hillary was actually a good thing. We dodged that bullet!

    Oh... and Facebook sold $200,000 of advertisements to some Russians. Big deal.
     
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    So would any democrats care to explain what was in the hacked emails that was so bad that it changed the minds of many of the voters? What did Hillary and the DNC do that was so horrible that it changed votes?

    Everyone seems to be focused on the hacking, but aren't the contents of the emails more important than how they were exposed?
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    By your definition, any campaign ad that contains false information is "election Meddling"

    Photo ID which for some odd reason the democrat party refuses to accept, is the most logical way to purify the voting process. Why would any sane person not support that? It has absolutely nothing to do with the constitution and everything to do with making sure one is eligible to vote.
     
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    If it contains false information because somebody meddled with it then yes... it is "election meddling"

    1- Because it disenfranchises voters who have a right to vote.
    2- Because "purity" is not nor has ever been a problem

    Voter ID tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist, thus creating a real problem.
     
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    "Election meddling" only occurs when the left loses.
     
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    In the liberal dictionary its defined as telling the truth about hillary
     
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    Muellar is going to get Trump though. Jaywalking in 1998.
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Translated, the dems are scared to death of people being asked to prove who they claim to be when they show up to vote.
     
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    Absolutely! It scares anybody who believes in a Democracy. Doing such a needless and idiotic thing is the first step at destroying it. And, as courts have found, it has been attempted.
     
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