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- U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin — were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states.
- In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security called the report “factually inaccurate and misleading.”
- While officials in Washington told several of the states ahead of the elections that foreign entities were probing their systems, none were told the Russian government was behind it, NBC News reported.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin — were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
The Department of Homeland Security denied the report, a spokesman calling it “factually inaccurate and misleading” in a statement.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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