Voter Fraud, Voter Supression, Cyber Crime: What's the Bigger Threat to Democracy?

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Cyber crime, by far. Worse than any of those listed is the Citizens United supreme court decision. A tiny number of very wealthy people worked for years to get the decision. How? Read the book Dark Money, by Jane Mayer. They are cashing in, big time, today.

This investigative report by the Guardian is well worth a Sunday read. It analyzes 1500 pages of leaked documents related to an investigation into Scott Walker's potential campaign finance violations in Wisconsin. They reveal the influence of corporate interests and other big money on elections and how it's grown even more powerful since the Citizens United decision:

Because Scott Walker Asked

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rican-politics

An excerpt:

"The John Doe files published today open a door onto how modern US elections operate in the wake of Citizens United, the 2010 US supreme court ruling that unleashed a flood of corporate money into the political process. They speak to the mounting sense of public unease about the cosy relationship between politicians and big business, and to the frustration of millions of Americans who feel disenfranchised by an electoral system that put the needs of corporate donors before ordinary voters."

"One of the checks made out to the group, for $10,000, came from a financier called G Frederick Kasten Jr. In the subject line of the check, Kasten had written in his own hand: “Because Scott Walker asked”.




Because Scott Walker asked. That could stand as an elegant catchphrase for the state of democracy in the US today, where elections are lost or won as much according to candidates’ ability to attract corporate cash as by the strength of their leadership or ideas."