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>Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration rolls. It has not been revealed whether or not they changed anything in the last election, but if voter rolls were compromised they could change voter registration data and cause people to be turned away from the booth on election day.

Actually "Jeanette Manfra, head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, told NBC the Russians only successfully infiltrated a few of those states. It's not believed that the Russians were able to alter the voter rolls"

And that's if one believes that they did in the first place, on the claims of such state agencies -- the same ones that target some country or another when its the enemy du jour (WMD anyone?) and need BS stories to justify their budgets.




Ms. Manfra also stated that she could't answer that question because the information was classified.

There are also competing accounts.

http://time.com/4828306/russian-hacking-election-widespread-...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/26/voting_server_georg...




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