Anons, since the Mackler/Podesta Dogs are Loose email about voting machines has re-surfaced, I did a little dig on the initial Q drop. Even we Veteran QResearchers have a little trouble remembering everything that happened around every drop, so I went to a resource that I used in the very beginning to catch up with the first couple months that I'd missed before I got here. If you've never seen it, you should check out QAnon - The Storm, maintained by @1ambecauseweare. This is not me and I have no connection, just credit where credit's due. Links to this are in the QPosts Archive section of every bread, and on his twatter page.
Now, the original drop. Perusing Notables, I noticed that anon had dropped proof that it was a Q drop, but what I found in the pdf shows that it was originally posted on Twat by @PolitixGal on October 31, 2016.
https://twitter.com/PolitixGal/status/793145973195145216
In the QAnon - The Storm pdf, this drop is discussed on pages 274-278 (I'm using version X.VII), with posts from anons and Q replies. There was apparently an article written about it (being fake), but the link is dead, and I couldn't find it on archive.is or archive.org. Here's the article link if anyone wants to look for it elsewhere.
https://ijr.org/2016/11/725453-hillary-body-odor-election-rigging-more-fake-podesta-emails-expose-darker-side-of-the-media/
It seems the consensus of thought at the time was that the original email was not necessariy a fake, but had been deleted and Q was dropping it to prove that [Nothing is ever truly deleted]. Reminder - this was around the time that it was being reported that FBI "loses" Strzok text messages. And eventually those "lost" texts were recovered.
Anyway, there's my two cents in the conversation. Carry on.