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In reply to the discussion: If you believe Russia hacked our voting machines but didnt change votes, [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)than anyone knows. It's very possible that the 70K votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that gave Trump the presidency were results of a direct Russian cyberattack. But that was only the tip of the iceberg.
We don't know how far the Russians encroached into our local, county and state elections to deliver votes to the Republicans. But today's news reports that "U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states - Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin - were compromised by Russian-backed operatives".
Still unknown, and far more insidious, is that the Russians may have left behind all kinds malicious code that will come alive in the 2018 elections, once again tipping the vote to keep Russian loving Republicans in office. Worse, the Russians need only to disrupt the voting systems, trigger a state or even nationwide failure of electronic voting to create chaos and disruption throughout the whole country.