Though Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, other aspects of the election—from the way that Russia created a massive propaganda machine to target swing district voters, the hacks into state election systems, and attempts to alter voter rolls—are getting much less attention. Even when it appears that those attempts may have been successful, like efforts to scrub Democratic voters in North Carolina.
Most of the complaints came from Durham, a blue-leaning county in a swing state. The problems involved electronic poll books—tablets and laptops, loaded with check-in software, that have increasingly replaced the thick binders of paper used to verify voters’ identities and registration status … the company that provided Durham’s software, VR Systems, had been penetrated by Russian hackers months before.
Local officials have put these problems down to human error—human error that demonstrably affected far more votes than anything Republicans have been show about “illegal voting.” Any effort to either discover the truth, or safeguard the system for the next election, seems to be limited.
After a presidential campaign scarred by Russian meddling, local, state and federal agencies have conducted little of the type of digital forensic investigation required to assess the impact, if any, on voting in at least 21 states whose election systems were targeted by Russian hackers, according to interviews with nearly two dozen national security and state officials and election technology specialists.
A New York Times investigation shows that the attacks on state systems were more extensive, and more successful, than officials have previously disclosed.
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