US is worried about Russia using new efforts to exploit divisions in 2022 midterms

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Edward-Isaac Dovere
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NEW from me - homeland and national security officials are warning of a potential hybrid Russian effort for November, staging hacks meant to get detected and then feeding that into disinfo channels to undermine faith even more in US elections

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US is worried about Russia using new efforts to exploit divisions in 2022 midterms
Homeland and national security officials are worried about how Russia could significantly exploit US divisions over the November midterms, considering scenarios like Russia staging smaller hacks of...
1:40 PM · Jun 19, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/19/politics/us-worries-russia-exploit-divisions-2022-midterms/index.html

(CNN)Homeland and national security officials are worried about how Russia could significantly exploit US divisions over the November midterms, considering scenarios like Russia staging smaller hacks of local election authorities -- done with the deliberate purpose of being noticed -- and then using that to seed more conspiracies about the integrity of American elections.

These efforts, the officials said, would be designed to dovetail with the false doubts about the 2020 presidential election spread by former President Donald Trump and many of his allies.

The five current and former US officials who spoke to CNN stressed that such a scenario remains hypothetical.

Although US elections have become more secure in recent years, officials say that an atmosphere of distrust in America's elections, coupled with the sheer number of local election systems, means there's no way to truly be ready for such a convergence of Russian asymmetric warfare techniques.

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[Dan]

1. Well, they have their front line assault troops, the Republican Party.

[Whiskeytide]

2. HALF the US is worried. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

3. Maybe do something wild and make the election about Putin Republicans

Since our ability to maintain a functional democracy is severely compromised by them and their icon in Moscow. Just a thought.

Oh, I know, inflation…

[rso]

4. Russia

Time to hit Russia with our superior offensive cyber capabilities which we have held back, or at least, warn Putin that any attempt to screw around will be met with us shutting down their defense production via cyber attacks, which we can do.

[rso]

5. Russia

Time to hit Russia with our superior offensive cyber capabilities which we have held back, or at least, warn Putin that any attempt to screw around will be met with us shutting down their defense production via cyber attacks, which we can do.