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Mueller Indictment Lays Out Russia’s Hacking of State, Local Election Infrastructure

Route Fifty: Russia’s cyber attack on state election infrastructure in 2016 was wider in scope and more successful than some victims of the attack had previously claimed, according to the U.S. Department of Justice indictment against Russian military intelligence officials announced this Friday. The document raises new questions about the previously acknowledged hack of the Illinois Board of Elections, as well as at least one private sector technology vendor that supports election infrastructure across the country.

Count 11 of this most recent indictment places Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev, an officer in the Russian military, at the center of a campaign against U.S. state and local election infrastructure in the lead up to the 2016 election.

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