Will Election Be Rigged By Russian Hackers?

We are not a patient nation; we don’t want to save up for the purchase price of our adult toys

We want the new car, new boat, new home, leather couch now not later to enjoy

We want the meds to work immediately and often to cure our ills

If one works, better to take twice the pain killing pills

The only thing or actions that we avoid like the plague and do not want to have now

Is to save for retirement believing we can solve the nest egg needs in the future somehow

We are truly a nation obsessed in the pursuit of instant gratification

But in desire for speed of results we may have lost safety in our upcoming elections

Voting fraud in America over our history is nothing new

How with Daley’s iron grip in 1960 he handed Illinois over to the Blues

 A Daley motto of vote early and vote often even if you had died

To no surprise in the Daley wards, Nixon’s election was denied

But then fraud took a lot of effort a lot of persons casting paper ballots that were counted by hand

What was on the ballot even if the vote was cast by a person dead would stand

Now in the era of computer voting with instant counting you only need one person to an election computer hack

To alter voting with a few clicks to snatch victory from the real victor, then with more clicks, cover up your tracks

Already we have seen the DNC’s computers by the Russians breached

Two state voting computers have also been proven by the FBI to be within the hackers’ reach

Many voters thought Trump was off the wall and becoming unhinged when he claimed the only way he could lose

Would be if the election were rigged by hackers changing for whom the voters would choose

Scary thought but knowing Putin I would not bet that we will not see cyber fraud

What do we expect when we are not longer feared and respected abroad?

© August 29, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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