Hardly a week goes by without some news of a major hacking. The airways are filled with commercials for companies that aim to protect us from identity theft. And the IRS is constantly warning taxpayers to take precautions with their tax filings to help the IRS combat its own scourge of hackers and thieves claiming tax refunds in other people's names.
It might seem like time to pull back from the internet-for-everthing mindset prevailing among so many people. Now we learn that a George Soros crony is involved in the online voting process about to take place in Utah. This comes to us by way of the Wall Street Journal via Breitbart.com in Smartmatic Group, an electronic voting firm whose worldwide headquarters is located in the United Kingdom, will be running the online balloting process in the Utah Republican Open Caucuses on Tuesday. Excerpt:
Besides formerly serving as vice-chairman of Soros’s Investment Funds and the billionaire’s Open Society Institute, Malloch-Brown is currently a global board member of Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
As further documented in his Smartmatic Group bio, Malloch-Brown also serves on the small board of the International Crisis Group, a Soros-financed international crisis management organization. Soros himself sits on the ICG’s small board. ...
Tuesday’s Utah GOP Caucuses are considered an important test for online voting, which seems poised to expand in future elections. Last month, Microsoft’s vote-counting technology was utilized in the Iowa Caucus.
What could possibly go wrong?
Exit question: How much different might this news be handled if he were a Donald Trump crony?
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