It comes back to the attacks from within and without, on at least one swing state in 2016. Remember that it’s not simply about changing votes or altering voter rolls. And there’s witting and unwitting collusion. This in conjunction with DHS assessments raises more questions about 2018 election security, and more importantly whether the WH will do anything, given its Russian indifference.
Top-secret intelligence requested by President Barack Obama in his last weeks in office identified seven states where analysts — synthesizing months of work — had reason to believe Russian operatives had compromised state websites or databases.
Three senior intelligence officials told NBC News that the intelligence community believed the states as of January 2017 were Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.
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All state and federal officials who spoke to NBC News agree that no votes were changed and no voters were taken off the rolls.
According to classified intelligence documents, the intelligence community defines compromised as actual "entry" into election websites, voter registration systems and voter look-up systems.
NBC News reached out to all seven states that were compromised, as well as 14 additional states the Department of Homeland Security says were probed during the 2016 election.