NBC: Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, says top U.S. official
The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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."
Jeh Johnson, who was DHS secretary during the Russian intrusions, said, "2016 was a wake-up call and now it's incumbent upon states and the Feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again."
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WNU Editor: There is a solution to this debate .... copy what Canada does when it comes to elections. We have a voter registration system where people have ample time to make sure that they are on the list. And on election day .... we all go to the polls with a picture ID (in Canada everyone has a medicare card with our picture on it), and then we use a paper ballot. It is quick .... efficient .... and fair.
