Can someone please explain to me how the Russians "hacked" the election?

Nothing to explain bc state election systems were not hacked. It's a red herring.

The irony is now the Democrats are trying to hijack it from Trump.

The election wasn't hacked. The terms "election hacking" and "interference" are used to muddy the waters to make people think actual voting machines were infiltrated by Russians.

They are referring to the DMV emails which were hacked.


Not vote hacking.


Typical msm bait and switch.


Good thing the media lost all credibility.

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The DNC employees and Clinton campaign employees all supposedly received a spear-phishing email that told them their Google email password had been compromised and they needed to immediately click the attached link and change their password, which conveniently required your old password entered first.

And apparently some of them, including Podesta, fell for it.

So somebody got some email account passwords and simply logged into these people's email accounts and saved all the email histories.

That's one rumor. The other is that Seth Rich or some other DNC staffer who had access to DNC servers simply stole email histories from backups.

Either way this was low tech shite by "hacker" or computer programmer standards.

I'm pretty sure that password phishing is a bit below the capabilities of the Russian government. But this is what the "17 intelligence agencies" claim was used. They claim they located the email tracks and that they came from IP addresses in Russia.

Which is a crock since anyone who knows shite about computers knows you can proxy through IP's all over the damn world and mask where you're actually based.

So it's all speculation. But they won't admit that because they have an agenda against Trump.

Yeah, I get the phishing scheme. And also Podesta included his gmail username and password in another email that was released by Wikileaks's (retarded).

So that doesn't explain how they hacked the election. That is simply shedding light on the idiot campaign and the filth inside of it. I don't even see how that influences anything. The ONLY thing that would make since is someone also had the same kind of access to Trump's campaign and did not release it. But we know that didn't happen.

Wikileaks's wasn't interested in deciding an election. They simply wanted to cause chaos. It just so happened it was during an election.

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So that doesn't explain how they hacked the election.

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I've only seen a person or two (Professor from UM) actually argue the election was hacked. That was immediately refuted by 538, the upshot at NYT, etc. That professor has since walked back his comments.

I think issues are being conflated by everybody (election, DNC leaks, hacking, etc.).