The contours of the perfect storm of 2016 become more clearly defined. What swing states? What Electoral College? It’s not about altering the data as much as such official data is useful for other database targeting purposes.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said she couldn't talk about classified information publicly, but in 2016, "We saw a targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of them were actually successfully penetrated."
We were able to determine that the scanning and probing of voter registration databases was coming from the Russian government."
There is no evidence that any of the registration rolls were altered in any fashion, according to U.S. officials.