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Senators: Extent of Russian

election intrusion still unknown

By MARY CLARE JALONICK findings released Tuesday has been unclear in some
and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY by the Senate intelligence cases. The Senate report
Associated Press committee. Lawmakers say echoes repeated govern-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The they do know the U.S. is still ment claims that there is no
United States still doesn’t vulnerable to such an at- evidence that vote tallies or
know — and may never tack. voter registration informa-
know — the extent of Rus- The Senate committee tion was manipulated. But
Voters fill out their ballots at the Cincinnati Public Library precinct sian interference in state made the findings public the document says hack-
on primary election day, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Cincinnati. election systems in 2016, ahead of the panel’s full ers successfully penetrated
Associated Press according to bipartisan election security report, voter registration databas-
which is expected to be es in a handful of cases. “In
released in the coming a small number of states,
weeks. The document pro- these cyber actors were
vides new details about in a position to, at a mini-
the level of Russian activity mum, alter or delete voter
during the last presidential registration data; however,
election. they did not appear to be
The committee found that in a position to manipulate
in at least six states “Rus- individual votes or aggre-
sian-affiliated cyber ac- gate vote totals,” the Sen-
tors” conducted “malicious ate report says.
access attempts on vot- The senators make it clear
ing-related websites” that that there are still many un-
went beyond routine scan- knowns about what hap-
ning previously reported. In pened in 2016.
a majority of those cases, “The committee has lim-
the Russians used a com- ited information about
mon hacking technique to whether, and to what ex-
attack the states’ public- tent, state and local offi-
facing election websites. cials carried out forensic or
The committee didn’t iden- other examination of elec-
tify the six states. tion infrastructure systems
The findings were released in order to confirm whether
as votes were counted in election-related systems
four states that held elec- were compromised,” the
tion primaries Tuesday. findings say. “It is possible
“Today’s primaries are the that additional activity
next step toward the 2018 occurred and has not yet
midterms and another re- been uncovered.”
minder of the urgency of The findings also issue a
securing our election sys- stern warning: Russians
tems,” said North Carolina could have been testing
Sen. Richard Burr, the chair- for a future attack. Elec-
man of the panel. tion infrastructure is vulner-
The Department of Home- able in many ways, the
land Security has previously document says, noting that
said there were attempts many voting systems are
to hack into the election outdated and there are a
systems of 21 states, but limited number of vendors
the extent of the hacking for voting machines. q

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