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To add to what you said, this could be used for more than just propaganda campaigns and targeted attacks. For example: > In Illinois, investigators found evide
by chimeracoder 9y ago
To add to what you said, this could be used for more than just propaganda campaigns and targeted attacks. For example:
> In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data
Which implies that voter registration lists may have been affected.
During the primary elections, there were reports in certain states of people who found their names missing from the voter lists and had to cast provisional ballots. (Anecdotally, I know at least one person who votes regularly and found their name missing, despite not having moved or changed their registration information since the previous election, only a few months before).
From the article, we can't say if those are related, but it's clear tampering with voter registration information was the intention, whether or not they actually succeeded:
> In fact, the Obama administration believed that the Russians were possibly preparing to delete voter registration information or slow vote tallying in order to undermine confidence in the election. That effort went far beyond the carefully timed release of private communications by individuals and parties