The Actind DHS Undersecretary also had this to add:Ex-DHS secretary: We saw “scanning and probing around voter registration databases, which concerned us greatly” https://t.co/mWMU53tq9U— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 21, 2017
Acting DHS Undersecretary Jeanette Manfra confirmed in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing what has been previously reported: that Russian operatives tried to interfere with the U.S. electoral infrastructure itself.
“We have evidence of election-related systems in 21 states that were targeted,” Manfra testified, declining to disclose which specific states were targeted.
Manfra also said she would not share which states had data “exfiltrated” from their voting systems in an open hearing.
You know we keep learning that the Russian cyber attacks were more widespread and consequential than previously reported almost every week.
I keep waiting for the day that it is finally reported that "Yes, the Russians stole the election and made Donald Trump the president."
However perhaps the reason we have not yet heard that statement is because DHS has not bothered to really look into it.
Courtesy of The Daily Beast:
Despite assurances from the U.S. intelligence community that Russian hacking only influenced the 2016 U.S. election—and didn’t change vote tallies—there was never actually a formal federal audit of those systems, the Department of Homeland Security said.
And while DHS offered free security scans to any state that wanted them, many states—even ones that took up the DHS offer, like Michigan and Maine—either use audit procedures that are considered inadequate or don’t audit their election results at all.
“I think there’s a presumption amongst both the general public and lawmakers that DHS did some sort of investigation,” said Susan Greenhalgh, who serves as Elections Specialist at Verified Voting, a nonprofit devoted to U.S. election integrity.
“It didn’t happen. That doesn’t mean that something happened, but it also means it wasn’t investigated.”
The article goes on to say that not only has DHS not done an intensive audit to determine if any election tallies were tampered with, it may not even be able to do that.
So again, WHY exactly are we so convinced that the Russians did not change the vote tallies in order to get Donald Trump elected?
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