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Proud Liberal Dem

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13. I would like to know that as well
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:56 PM
Dec 2016

If it is true that Russians played a role in hacking/disseminating DNC e-mails and that it affected the election results, then what? That's the part I'm a little fuzzy on. I'd like to think that this would be grounds for a "re-vote," however since there's no mechanism AFAIK for this to occur, then I'm not sure that anything can necessarily be done to stop Trump's inauguration to the Presidency. Neither Lindsey Graham, John McCain, nor any other Republican would support a new election or replacement of Trump as POTUS. We are stuck with Trump for at least the next four years and we know that he's not losing any sleep over any of this- to the extent that he even believes that there's anything here. I always felt that, after the disputed election in 2000, George W. Bush should've formed more of a "unity government" and/or governed in a more bipartisanship manner but, of course, that didn't happen and I would expect it to happen even less under Trump. And, again, there won't really be any Republicans AFAIK whom would argue for it either. The best that we can probably hope for is that it lessens the legitimacy of Trump's win in the public eye and helps boost our chances of replacing him in four years (and a whole host of Republicans in two).

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Changing the outcome is about as likely as you winning a $300 million dollar lottery Lurks Often Dec 2016 #1
I agree True Dough Dec 2016 #5
Is there even a plausible claim that they hacked the vote? FBaggins Dec 2016 #2
No, but it seems like a lot of folks here B2G Dec 2016 #3
It would definitely be grounds for overturning the election FBaggins Dec 2016 #9
Hacking the DNC and Podesta doesn't mean the results were inaccurate B2G Dec 2016 #11
So far, it's just voter data bases... and officials and party workers at various levels.... bettyellen Dec 2016 #4
Josh Earnest alread said in his presser today B2G Dec 2016 #6
Exactly SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #14
Actually they haven't presented proof that Russia hacked the DNC... 4139 Dec 2016 #7
I know. See my comment above yours. nt B2G Dec 2016 #8
I think the issue is more what happened in response - by elected officials and the FBI. LisaM Dec 2016 #10
Yeah, well our own media did that on a daily basis B2G Dec 2016 #12
That's a great way to rationalize Moscow getting into the game via hacking. LanternWaste Dec 2016 #17
And true. B2G Dec 2016 #18
Just on a jury for your post. Kingofalldems Dec 2016 #21
I would like to know that as well Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2016 #13
Even if we could re-vote kudzu22 Dec 2016 #19
True Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2016 #22
Overturning the election would be nice, but that is not my intent by hoping for a full investigation hamsterjill Dec 2016 #15
The game changer is that going forward HoneyBadger Dec 2016 #16
Not without a crisis of faith in our system, but then we already have that. The likelyhood JCanete Dec 2016 #20
It's impossible to hack a voting machine from a remote location. Exilednight Dec 2016 #23
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