It's Official, Russians Corrupted The Election

[JCricket]

Originally Posted by whell

The only way you can "manipulate votes" is to somehow get access to the voting machines or the voting process. Also, reportedly Trump spent far less than Hillary's campaign and still won.

As stated, my comment was very loose. So yeah in this case the spending example was inaccurate. But in general it is not.

Broadly speaking, for a foreign entity's money to end up in our election process is troubling. But it has been a fact of life for years that foreign money ends up finding its way to candidates for US office even though its prohibited by law. Remember the Clinton's accepting money from the Chinese?

Do you think its also wrong when we interfere in the election process of other countries?

Absolutely I think it is wrong. I think it is wrong any time any government or foreign entity tries to have any influence on any election. This should be sacred right of the people governing themselves.

I still think that a country that attempts to influence an election is "manipulating votes". This may be syntactically incorrect, but in practicality I feel it is accurate.