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kpete

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Sat Jul 14, 2018, 09:08 AM Jul 2018

'wasn't just campaign to influence voters-but an effort to hack election software to change outcome' [View all]


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In fact, revelations in the indictments will confirm the worst fears of many in Washington who believe the 2016 election meddling was just a precursor for what the Kremlin has planned this November.

“The charges indicate that this wasn’t just a campaign by Russia to influence voters, but an effort to hack election software to change the outcome,” Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney in Michigan, told POLITICO.
“This should be a wake-up call to safeguard our upcoming elections as a matter of national security.”


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/13/robert-mueller-probe-state-election-systems-686522
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