The feds are telling 21 states that hackers attempted to hack their voter systems, but were mostly unsuccessful.
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From Fox News:
Election officials in 21 states have been notified by the Department of Homeland Security that hackers targeted voter registration systems ahead of last year’s presidential election.
In most cases, the systems were not breached. A small number of networks were compromised, but those affected were not involved in the actual tallying of votes. In most of the states, the targeting involved preparatory activity, such as scanning computer systems.
Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin had confirmed they had been targeted as of Friday evening.
In most cases, the states had not known until notified by DHS Friday, though the government had told the Associated Press last year that more than 20 states were targeted by hackers believed to be Russian agents.
The government did not say Friday who was behind the hacking attempts or provide details about what had been sought. But election officials in three states said Friday the attempts could be linked to Russia.
The Wisconsin Election Commission, for example, said the state’s systems were targeted by “Russian government cyber actors.”
BUT it must be noted that they weren’t successful and it appears the vote wasn’t compromised. However, no one is saying the Russians directly changed votes, but rather that they used social media and other methods to persuade people to vote one way. That’s a much different claim…