How To Hack an Election (bloomberg.com)

"For eight years, Andres Sepulveda, now 31, says he traveled the continent rigging major political campaigns..." writes Bloomberg, citing elections in Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Venezuela. Sepulveda says he was bankrolled by a political consultant in Miami, and his services involved everything from phone tapping and cracking donor databases to managing thousands of fake Twitter profiles. While Sepulveda wasn't always successful, in 2012, "He led a team of hackers that stole campaign strategies, manipulated social media to create false waves of enthusiasm and derision, and installed spyware in opposition offices, all to help Pena Nieto, a right-of-center candidate, eke out a victory." Now serving 10 years in prison in Colombia, Sepulveda is telling his story in hopes of a reduced sentence - and to warn the public that hackers are affecting modern elections, and that specialized skills will be need to stop them.

"On the question of whether the U.S. presidential campaign is being tampered with, he is unequivocal. 'I'm 100 percent sure it is'."

Comments

Re:Not necessary

[Anonymous Coward]

Tampering with elections is legal in the USA. It's ratified by Citizens United.

Oh, STFU you idiotic waste of protoplasm and oxygen.

The ONE BILLION DOLLARS public employee unions have donated to DEMOCRATS has probably been the most corrupting force in US history.

Because it's basically made one party the party of government FOR the government BY the government.

And FUCK EVERYONE ELSE.

Have Democrats really helped minority unemployment? Minority poverty rates?

Re:Trump springs to mind

[Attila Dimedici]

while the dem campaigns have relied on actual people

Who come out to events and protests because they are paid with money from George Soros, Tom Steyer, or the Sandlers.