1 State? 7 States? Uncertainty Persists About Russian Cyberattacks On U.S. Election
The intelligence community has more evidence than it has revealed about Russian interference efforts — but so far it is keeping what it knows secret.
Even as Americans begin voting in the earliest 2018 midterm primaries, the public still doesn't have solid answers about what happened to its election systems in 2016.
Instead it has conflicting accounts and official denials.
The latest example this week came from the Department of Homeland Security, which slammed that said the intelligence community had evidence in early 2017 to believe Russian operatives compromised more state voter systems in 2016 than previously known. DHS said NBC's story was "factually inaccurate and misleading" and stood by, that just one state, Illinois, had its system breached.
