Hackers tried to access South Carolina's voter registration system almost 150,000 times on Election Day alone, a new report from the state's Election Commission has revealed.
The report plays into a larger pattern of attempted hacking in the 2016 election, in which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says more than 20 US states were targeted. Intelligence officials believe much of the election meddling was carried out by Russian hackers.
They keep using the phrase "tried to access" but I am starting to think that they almost had to have been successful at least a couple of times.
One does not attempt 150,000 times unless you managed to penetrate a security system somewhere using the same or a similar approach.
And if they were successful just how many votes might they have altered for Donald Trump?
Not that they needed to do much since the Republicans had already managed to purge as many as 22 million eligible Democratic voters from the system before the election:
In the name of voter fraud, 1.1 million voters were removed from the registration lists through voter purging in the months before the 2016 election, and 21 million eligible voters were removed from the polls through voter ID restrictions.
22 million eligible voters from Democratic voting blocs were removed from the registration lists and polling booths in the name of voter fraud.
22 million.
Go ahead, tell me again that the Russians and Republicans were not working together.
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