Saturday, May 4, 2019

Russian Hackers Were ‘In a Position’ to Alter Florida Voter Rolls, Rubio Confirms

It was the day before the 2016 presidential election, and at the Volusia County elections office, near Florida’s Space Coast, workers were so busy that they had fallen behind on their correspondence. Lisa Lewis, the supervisor of elections, stumbled on an important email sent to her and three others in the office, by then a week old, that appeared to be from VR Systems, the vendor that sells electronic voter list equipment to nearly every county in the state. “Please take a look at the instructions for our modernised products,” it said, using British spelling and offering an attachment. Something about the email seemed off. “It was from Gmail,” Ms. Lewis said. “They don’t have Gmail.”...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/florida-russia-hacking-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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