(THREAD) The official Intelligence Community report determined that Russian efforts did not materially change the result of the 2016 vote.
In May last year, I ran a story suggesting that changing the actual vote results was easy to do. narativ.org/2017/05/30/the…
In May last year, I ran a story suggesting that changing the actual vote results was easy to do. narativ.org/2017/05/30/the…
We have since heard that 21 state electoral voters' rolls were accessed by Russian hackers. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
In the latest indictments of 12 Russians intelligence officers accused of meddling in the election, prosecutors allege Russia launched a large-scale attack on U.S. voting systems between June and October 2016. slate.com/technology/201…
Now we're learning one vendor of electronic voters machines installed remote access software on to their machines which made them easily accessible to hackers. @KimZetter motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
And Maryland was just told the vendor of its electronic voting machine was financed by a Russian oligarch. cbsnews.com/news/maryland-…
With a winning margin of just over 70,000 votes and cracks in the voting infrastructure, can we be sure the vote wasn't actually rigged? More alarmingly, by the time Americans go to polls in November, the Russians will have had two more years to sharpen their skills. (END)
