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struggle4progress

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Fri Sep 22, 2017, 11:40 PM Sep 2017

Russian Hoax Update [View all]

Feds notify 21 states of election hacking
Associated Press
September 22, 2017

The federal government today 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. While not all responded immediately, the others confirming they had been targets were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington ...

http://www.abc15.com/news/state/russia-targeted-arizona-voter-registration-systems-in-2016

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