{"id":196629,"date":"2019-10-21T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T08:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196629"},"modified":"2019-10-24T07:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:10:48","slug":"amazon-which-provides-computing-services-to-the-cia-will-soon-be-running-the-code-for-u-s-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196629","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, which provides computing services to the CIA, will soon be running the code for U.S. elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">JD Heyes \u2013 Natural News Oct 17, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jeff-Bezos-Amazon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-196630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Jeff-Bezos-Amazon.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If ever there was a legitimate threat to our republic, it\u2019s not coming from outside the country it\u2019s coming from inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sure, Russia and China pose existential threats to our existence, but the leaders of both those countries know and understand any shooting war with the United States will bring about their destruction as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So they are content to allow us to destroy our country from within, compliments of the Democrat Party and the Left-wing Marxists who find a political home there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Millions of Americans are aware that our electronic balloting systems remain under constant threat of hacking by a foreign power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They also know that the giant tech companies are run Leftists who embraced just enough capitalism to grow their companies into behemoths so they could use their newfound power to destroy liberty for the rest of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What if the bigger threat to changing election outcomes didn\u2019t come from Russian or Chinese hackers, but instead from a major American tech corporation \u2014 like Amazon?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/15\/amazon-moves-into-the-business-of-elections\/\">reported by <em>Breitbart News<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Amazon is reportedly making an aggressive push into the business side of state and local elections. Since the 2016 election, more than 40 states are using one or more of Amazon\u2019s services for elections.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Amazon, you may recall, was founded by Jeff Bezos \u2014 the same person who bought the anti-Trump Washington Post and who has little interest in seeing the president win a second term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If his company is now in charge of election \u201cservices,\u201d what would stop Bezos from attempting to change election outcomes in states that Trump barely won in 2016 or is attempting to flip red to blue in 2020 (like Minnesota)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-elections-amazon-com-insight-idUSKBN1WU173\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Amazon \u2014 now far more than just an e-tailer \u2014 has begun to aggressively expand its Web Services sector into election technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In addition, 2020 Democratic presidential contender and former Vice President Joe Biden, along with the U.S. federal agency that administers and enforces campaign finance laws, also use Amazon\u2019s election products.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">This isn\u2019t a good idea if we\u2019re trying to protect and defend democracy<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Though the e-tail and tech behemoth doesn\u2019t actually handle vote tallies on election day (county officials do that) Amazon Web Services (AWS) \u201cis running state and county election websites, storing voter registration rolls and ballot data,\u201d and helping military members overseas participate in the electoral process, Breitbart reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Amazon, of course, has a right to expand its business reach and diversify its technology offerings. But we know from experience since President Trump has been in office that the country\u2019s tech giants have banded together to oppose him by censoring pro-Trump conservatives from their platforms, taking away conservative news and information sites\u2019 ability to process payments from vendors, and otherwise throwing up roadblocks to reach readers and customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Already, Amazon\u2019s reach into our electoral processes is significant, and not unbiased. (Related: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/thenationalsentinel.com\/2017\/08\/30\/the-owner-of-the-washington-post-also-trafficks-in-antifa-gear\/\">The owner of the Washington Post also trafficks in ANTIFA gear<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe fact that we have invested heavily in this area, it helps to attest to the fact that in over 40 states, the Amazon cloud is being trusted to power, in some way, some aspect of elections,\u201d Michael Jackson, head of Public Health &amp; U.S. Elections at AWS, told prospective government clients during a webinar in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course, AWS and Amazon assure officials and prospective government clients that it will be extremely difficult to \u201chack\u201d their cloud, adding that it\u2019s a hardened target designed specifically to withstand attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But what if the \u2018attack\u2019 occurs internally? While Amazon is allegedly watching out for foreign hackers and other bad actors, who\u2019s watching Amazon? Given the animus and bias towards the current occupant of the Oval Office, shouldn\u2019t someone be watching the caretaker?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We think so. Trusting our electoral processes to an entity with <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newstarget.com\/2016-05-24-jeff-bezos-using-the-washington-post-as-a-political-weapon-to-try-to-destroy-trump.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a demonstrated political bias<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is not just foolhardy, it\u2019s asking for vote tallies to be tampered with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Sources include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newstarget.com\/2016-05-24-jeff-bezos-using-the-washington-post-as-a-political-weapon-to-try-to-destroy-trump.html\">NewsTarget.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/15\/amazon-moves-into-the-business-of-elections\/\">Breitbart.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/#facebook\">Facebook<\/a><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/#twitter\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2019-10-17-amazon-will-run-code-that-powers-elections.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s not the problem. 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