Let's assume, that foreign countries such as Russia or China would be trying to sabotage our elections on Nov 8th night. What are the severe economic and political backlash that we can deal with if we cut off the traffic coming in from those region (not in a "we control the internet" kinda way)? I am sure they already have nodes operating within the USA. A lot of major tech companies use CDNs that can still serve traffic globally to the consumers of those countries. Even better, how about we regulate and slow down all of incoming traffic for say half day on election day? Is it even possible?
But then why would they be doing it right now? I'm sure they already know if they can do it or not. I don't think they need to do a large scale test run that would put people on high alert. They'd keep their head down until election day.
But then, what is China or Russia going to get out of doing something like this? It isn't going to change anything. Hillary is the next president regardless. Hell, even if no votes could be counted I am sure the Supreme Court wouldn't have a problem calling it for her.
So to me the idea that China and Russia is doing this for political reasons doesn't make any sense.
