Reuters has an exclusive story today with an interesting twist. Election meddling is being claimed by two losers of California primaries, with an addition that the FBI is probing their claims of potential manipulation of election results. Both the candidates lost to their own party's candidates in primaries, so there was no claim that one party undermined the other.
I find this interesting from a couple of perspectives. First, the losers went to the Democratic National Committee to get help on investigating the cases and got none. It was "too expensive" to hire a security firm to do an investigation, estimated to cost about $50,000 each for two cases. If you take a look at the figures, this wasn't about money, as much as priorities. One of the candidates, Min raised over $1,000,000. So $50,000 wasn't that much. I don't find the "too much" very credible. He only got 17% of the vote.
I think we are going to see more of this. A person loses the election and complains afterwards that his systems were hacked. Call in the FBI and delay the whole process and make losing sound like something other than what it was.
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