So, I go shovel snow for a while, take a rest and when I get back to the computer I read that they're already finding out that it was Trump trolls who played a major role in the havoc in Iowa by clogging the lines for caucus results to be called in. The number for the line was put on a Republican-fascist website and Trump fascist trolls clogged the lines.
And this is certainly something they're planning for the rest of the campaign. If the Democratic state and national committees aren't preparing emergency measures for dealing with this, and I mean months ago, we are screwed.
The campaigns of the major candidates, all of them, need to meet on an emergency basis to coordinate plans to fight this with or without the help of the DNC and state parties, all of them should be meeting on a secure basis to work around this.
If it were me, I'd make sure there was a measure taken to physically and securely transmit that data, on paper to a central location in every state, announcing beforehand that there would be no partial results released before those papers were tabulated, with full transparency before representatives of all of the campaigns. Clearly if even the phones are being ratfucked something that can't be has to be used.
I've been inclined to look charitably on the DNC but if they don's step in, immediately, to take bold and effective action to counter this, it will have earned the distrust of all involved.
American democracy is under active attack by Republicans, that is clear. The old ways of doing things are vulnerable to their attacks.
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