Bloomberg has the details.
Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database. Details of the wave of attacks, in the summer and fall of 2016, were provided by three people with direct knowledge of the U.S. investigation into the matter. In all, the Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states, one of them said.
The scope and sophistication so concerned Obama administration officials that they took an unprecedented step -- complaining directly to Moscow over a modern-day “red phone.” In October, two of the people said, the White House contacted the Kremlin on the back channel to offer detailed documents of what it said was Russia’s role in election meddling and to warn that the attacks risked setting off a broader conflict.
Three things; 1) that’s a whole lot of effort for a “nothing burger” that supposedly “made no difference” in the end 2) if there’s already a “Red Phone” with a directly line to the Kremlin — why was Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn really running around setting up meetings with Kislyak and sanctioned bankers like Gorkov to establish a “back channel” to Russia when the White House already has a back channel direct to Russia and 3) simply the fact that they didn’t exactly succeed at changing voter rolls this time, doesn't mean they will fail next time.
Video report.
Some of this seems to be further confirmation of what was released from the NSA by Reality Winner, and then some.
Yet again, despite what Rep. Sean Duffy says — this is a not a charade — it’s the real deal. The more the GOP sticks it’s head in the sand over it, the worse they look.
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Frank Vyan Walton
If people don’t quite realize the impact of changing the voter rolls could be devastating simply by specifically deleting Democratic voters from the list and causing those person to use provisional ballots which will only be counted if the results of incredibly close. As a matter of fact 220,000 votes like these weren’t counted during the primaries.
To determine how many people’s ballots didn’t count this year, HuffPost asked nearly every state that held a presidential primary this cycle how many provisional ballots were cast and how many of those provisional ballots were ultimately counted. Some states partially count ballots cast outside of the voter’s precinct by counting selections for state and federal offices, but not local races.
Here is a graphic showing what we found; it doesn’t include data from states where only a minuscule number of provisional ballots were recorded, like Vermont and Kentucky.
HuffPost got statewide data from 23 of the states that held primaries this year, plus data from Arizona’s largest county, Maricopa; data from Kansas, whose GOP caucus weirdly issues provisional ballots — caucuses don’t typically involve ballots; and data from New York City, where the chaotic Democratic presidential primary resulted in an unusually high number of provisional ballots submitted and rejected. (Public affairs officials with the New York State Board of Elections ignored repeated emails and calls from HuffPost.)
Whether it’s CrossCheck of a Russian hack, this kind of thing can certainly make a difference in multiple races.