NEW on MSNBC: 7 state election systems, not just Illinois, were "compromised" by Russia

[pnwmom]

in the 2016 election.

Coming up after the commercials.

[Cha]

1. KICK!

[spanone]

2. we're finding out things are a lot worse than we imagined.

by the fall they should be able to hack all the voting, then donald is king for life.

[Exotica]

3. Russia hacked voting systems in 39 states before the 2016 presidential election

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/13/15791744/russia-election-39-states-hack-putin-trump-sessions

Russia’s efforts to hack the 2016 presidential election were much more widespread than originally thought. The Russian campaign hit 39 states — twice as many as originally reported — and in one case hackers tried to delete and alter voter data.

That’s the startling revelation from a Bloomberg report this morning. The extent of the cyber intrusion was so widespread that Obama administration officials used the infamous “red phone” — which is really a digital communications channel that allows the countries to send information back and forth — to show Kremlin leaders what they had discovered. It remains unclear, though, if these intrusions had any direct effect on the election’s outcome.

Still, this is another example of Russia taking advantage of the many online vulnerabilities in America’s voting network, which is comprised of software companies, online registration sites, and vital information that election officials willingly send to each other over email.

All of them play an important part in obtaining and safeguarding sensitive voter information, but it appears the Russians have figured out how to get that data.

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[poboy2]

4. cyber war.

[Turbineguy]

5. I suspect there were more.

The Russians may not have made any changes, but that doesn't mean they couldn't