Feds to finally examine 2016 North Carolina poll books for hacking
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysis of laptops used in Durham County is the first known federal probe of voting technology that malfunctioned during the 2016 election, when Russian hackers infiltrated election systems in several states, part of what special counsel Robert Mueller said was an effort to favor Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
That long-dormant request was renewed last Friday. The reason: The report Mueller issued in April on Russian interference in the 2016 election described how Kremlin-backed cyber spies had installed malware on the network of a company that"developed software used by numerous U.S. counties to manage voter rolls."
The FBI did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether it was investigating the Durham County poll book failure and whether it had examined the laptops' contents. Russian-backed hackers probed several dozen state voter registration databases ahead of the 2016 elections, federal authorities say, and gained access to Illinois' voter rolls, though officials say there is no indication anything was altered or deleted. Florida's new governor, Ron DeSantis, said in May that the FBI confirmed hackers also penetrated at least two county networks in Florida . His predecessor, Gov. Rick Scott, unseated Sen.
"Its value is clearly going to be diminished because it took so long to do it," she said. Lawson said he could not say how securely the machines were stored before the state seized them.
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