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> [no one alleges] the election was materially hacked in 2016 While the voting machines themselves may have avoided foreign interference, other infrastructure
by dane-pgp 6y ago
> [no one alleges] the election was materially hacked in 2016
While the voting machines themselves may have avoided foreign interference, other infrastructure around the voting process may well have been compromised. For example consider this article from last year[0]:
> Florida incurred an election-related security breach in 2016 that could have resulted in voter data being altered, Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday. ... Hackers were “in a position” to change voter roll data but apparently did not, Mr. Rubio told The New York Times.
If we can take Mr. Rubio's word for it, the Russian hackers went to all that trouble and then decided not to act to change the result of the election, but perhaps they found that the voter rolls had already been subject to so much partisan tampering that any more manipulation would risk backfiring.
[0] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/27/marco-rubio-hackers-were-in-a-position-to-change-v/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/27/marco-rubio...