Thread by @jennycohn1

In August 2016, Illinois election officials publicly disclosed that hackers had breached their voter registration system in June that year. 8/29/16 1/
cnn.com/2016/08/29/pol…

Bloomberg has called Illinois ``Patient Zero” for Russia’s attack on our election system. 2/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Per Bloomberg, the Illinois breach helped federal agents track where else the hackers had gone. They developed “digital signatures,” including the Russian hackers’ IP addresses, using evidence from the breached Illinois computer banks. 6/13/17 3/
esquire.com/news-politics/…

These digital signatures were then “sent through Homeland Security alerts and other means to every state.” 4/

Thirty-seven states “reported finding traces of the hackers in various systems, according to one of the people familiar with the probe.”

Why has there been no official confirmation or denial of this report?? It’s been 5 years… Don’t we deserve to know what happened to us??? 5/

“In two others -- Florida and California -- those traces were found in systems run by a private contractor managing critical election systems.” 6/

Getting “in” is more than “targeting”. 7/

It’s time for @POTUS to declassify this and more information about the 2016 election and the Mueller report. This happened on his and Obama’s watch. He owes us the truth. 8/

.@threadreaderapp Plz unroll

BTW, the Esquire article in post 3 is quoting the Bloomberg article in post 2. Sorry if this was confusing! (The link to it in Esquire is broken for some reason.) 9/

10/ Reality Winner leaked the NSA document, which confirmed that VR Systems was the private election-systems contractor that was breached in Florida. #PardonRealityWinner

11/ This is a big deal bc, among other reasons) VR Systems provided election-related systems to 60 out of 67 Florida counties and in multiple other states. 👇 (quoting Politico)

https://twitter.com/blmohr/status/1210171584348065793

12/ Sigh.

13/ The link is broken which is a shame. I didn’t remember this tidbit. So it was more than electronic poll books that were compromised.

14/ The information in this affidavit never even made it into the news. Everyone was so determined to maintain trust in the wholly untrustworthy 2016 election.

https://twitter.com/bearingleft/status/871896489945161728?s=21