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President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the reboot dept.

President Barack Obama has ordered a full review of hacking activities aimed at disrupting last month's presidential election, media outlets reported Friday citing a top White House official. The results are to be delivered to Obama before he leaves the office. From a report on Reuters: "The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process ... and to capture lessons learned from that and to report to a range of stakeholders, to include the Congress," homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco said during an event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

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  1. Re:Obama has no right to do this by avgjoe62 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Amendment, not Article. There is no Article 22 (not even an article 12 - the Constitution contains only seven articles). Amendment 22 sets a limit of two terms for the President. Amendment 12 specifies how the Electoral College works in selecting the President and Vice President and was added in reaction to the election of 1800 and was ratified in 1804, well after the original had been written.

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  2. Re:She won by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 5, Informative

    While the count is still going on, she's already won the popular vote by more than anyone except Obama in 2008. It's more than 2,7000,000 people voted for Hillary over Trump.

    I'm going to assume you mean by actual number of votes and not the percentage. Either way that's simply not true.

    By the actual margin:

    1972 Nixon won the popular vote by almost 18 million votes

    1984 Reagan won popular vote by almost 17 million votes

    1964 Johnson popular vote by almost 16 million

    GWB is in 19th place, for the most popular votes, in the 2004 election by getting just over 3 million votes more than Kerry. .

    If you want to look at the percentage, she's at 1.95%. Which is way down on the list. Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Nixon and LBJ all beat their opponents by over 20% of the popular vote. Grover Cleveland won election in 1892 with a 3% margin of the popular vote.

    Trump won by electoral votes but lost the popular vote by 1.95%. Rutherford Hayes (-3%) and John Quincy Adams (-10.44%) both won the electoral votes but lost the popular vote by a larger percentage than Trump did.