Federal government notifies 21 states of election hacking

Associated Press ^ | Sep 22, 2017 5:52 PM EDT | Geoff Mulvihill and Jake Pearson

[Olog-hai]

The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year’s presidential election.

The notification came roughly a year after U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials first said states were targeted by hacking efforts possibly connected to Russia. The states that told The Associated Press they had been targeted included some key political battlegrounds, such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The AP contacted every state election office to determine which ones had been informed that their election systems had been targeted. The others confirming were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

Being targeted does not mean that sensitive voter data was manipulated or results were changed. A hacker targeting a system without getting inside is similar to a burglar circling a house checking for unlocked doors and windows.

Even so, the widespread nature of the attempts and the yearlong lag time in notification from Homeland Security raised concerns among some election officials and lawmakers. …

[Slyfox]

The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year’s presidential election.

And Trump still won?

That would mean that all of Hitliary's illegal voters and the hackers who worked for her to win STILL got smacked down.

It just keeps getting funnier and funnier.

[rawcatslyentist]

Tell em something they don't already know!

The "State" is usually the one doing the hacking!

[HarleyLady27]

The only thing that happened in this past election was there was Voter Fraud in EVERY STATE!!! It wasn't done by Russia, it was done by illegal alien votes; busing in out of state voters; poor voter rolls being kept current; and by the DNC...

The Dems can cry all they want, they had it all set up for the hag to win, and the Pubbies didn't think Trump would win in a million years and sat back and now that he is POTUS they have to get off their butts and work, something they do not do, they would rather the Dems do the work and they sit back and fill their pockets with money...

Now that we understand that the hag wouldn't have won even the popular vote and wasn't even ‘in the race’ to begin with, the Dems want to point their fingers...remember one of the biggest traitors that in a pubbie helped get that piece of paper to the Dems to destroy the American People, America and Our Right to Vote: Senator John McCain of Arizona!!!

[Leep]

Possibly Russian but torally democrats.

[Leep]

Po totally that is.

[a fool in paradise]

How queer, in 2016 Obambi told Trump that the election was safe from hacking.

What did he know and when did he know it?

[SERKIT]

And how many hacked from Barry’s Just Us Department?

[a fool in paradise]

The Feds were tracked trying to hack into some sites.

[Robert357]

This smells of DEEP STATE FAKE NEWS. Seriously, hacking with Russian IP Addresses, turns into headlines of Russian hacking. All in time to support the Congressional Russian State meddling in USA elections to help Trump lie is loosing steam.

I call fake news from our enemies at the DEEP STATE.

[hoosiermama]

Just my opinion : it seems the intruders were NOT interested in manipulation of vote but surveying who had registered to vote. NO foreign country needs that information OTOH a political party might and then when caught blame it on the “Russians”

[Vaduz]

And the democrats still lost.

[taxcontrol]

I am of the opinion that a constitutional amemdemt is needed that:

Limits elections for US Federal office to US citizen voters only.

Requires states maintain a separate federal voter roll from state voter rolls

Requires all voters be purged from the Federal voter roll 30 days after a Presidential inauguration.

Requires all those that register to vote on the US Federal voter roll to provide proof if citizenship and a photo id to register and to receive a ballot.

Limits the distribution of ballots to only those on the voter roll and have been on the voter roll for 30 days prior to the election.

Requires states who gain a US citizen via moving as indicated by obtaining a state drivers license, voter card or other state identification to notify the loosing state of the citizen’s transference of residence.

[odawg]

I remember some Secretaries of State saying they had never been contacted by Homeland before the elections, when the supposed tampering was already discovered by the Obama administration.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[maine-iac7]

fl

[Delta 21]

“The government did not say who was behind the hacking attempts or provide details about what had been sought. But election officials in several states said the attempts were linked to Russia.”

...And the states knew this because why? and when did they notify the Feds about this?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I seem to remember a story from last November about the State of Georgia being annoyed by an attempt from Obama’s Dept. of Homeland Security trying to hack into their voter databases.

What happened to THAT story? Down the memory hole, because it makes the democrats look bad.

[poconopundit]

After the Magic Orb in the Middle East, McCain's mind stepped over the ledge. McCain's mind was always full of itself. McCain always imagines himself a hero because he got his plane shot down over Vietnam.

No, John! Getting shot down and being treated special by the Vietnamese because your Dad was an Admiral -- that's not being a hero. You are not a hero, McCain! You are a traitor.

Hobnobbing with the head of ISIS, smuggling money and guns to them, too. The Deep State is normally very secretive. It secretly dictates who American soldiers will fight and initiates secret payoffs in hundreds of millions to the Iranian Satan. It sides with the Globalists and Neo Cons. It applauds the Germans and Muzzies taking over all the sovereign states of Europe. And McCain is the Deep State's biggest ally.

McCain is the vile, puss-filled pimple on the surface of Deep State's Death Star.

God, please protect America from this reckless loser, traitor -- and most of all: fake hero.

[hoosiermama]

Indiana was also notified. IIRC so were a couple of others. This may be an updated version of the original.