There's No Way to Know How Compromised U.S. Elections Are
Even if there were, there might not be anything officials can do about it.
It’s not really all that hard to hack American democracy.
That fact should be driven home by from detailing the contents of that found evidence of a massive Russian cyberattack on voting software and against over 100 election officials. While the NSA concluded the attack was carried out by the most sophisticated of hackers—the Russian military—their entry methods were relatively vanilla. They gained access to the credentials and documents of a voting system vendor via a spear-phishing attack, and then used those credentials and documents to launch a second spear-phishing attack on local elections officials, which if successful could have compromised election officials’ systems and whatever voter data they possessed.
