Russian Hackers may have tampered with actual vote totals as their access into voting databases and systems go deeper than originally reported to Americans

Can America handle the truth? 

Hacking was Russia's favorite past time in 2016

The American officials have said repeatedly that the Russians did not change actual votes but as time goes on, it looks more and more like that may have just be wishful thinking.  

Vladimir Putin

Esquire, a well respected publication did a piece on this the other day.  They presented clear facts and when you read some of these facts, you can only come to one conclusion.

Here are some of the facts: 

In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database. Details of the wave of attacks, in the summer and fall of 2016, were provided by three people with direct knowledge of the U.S. investigation into the matter. In all, the Russian hackers hit systems in a total of 39 states, one of them said. The scope and sophistication so concerned Obama administration officials that they took an unprecedented step -- complaining directly to Moscow over a modern-day "red phone." In October, two of the people said, the White House contacted the Kremlin on the back channel to offer detailed documents of what it said was Russia's role in election meddling and to warn that the attacks risked setting off a broader conflict.

Illinois became Patient Zero in the government's probe, eventually leading investigators to a hacking pandemic that touched four out of every five U.S. states. Using evidence from the Illinois computer banks, federal agents were able to develop digital "signatures" -- among them, Internet Protocol addresses used by the attackers -- to spot the hackers at work. The signatures were then sent through Homeland Security alerts and other means to every state. Thirty-seven states reported finding traces of the hackers in various systems, according to one of the people familiar with the probe. In two others -- Florida and California -- those traces were found in systems run by a private contractor managing critical election systems.

Bloomberg reported that the Russian hacking went much further than any of us had previously thought.  Russian hackers hit 39 states, let that sink in, 39 states. Who is to say that votes in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Michigan were not changed to benefit Trump? 

The hacking process began at the State level.  Here are some findings: 

The state does, however, process online voter registration applications that are sent to the counties for approval, Menzel said. When voters are added to the county rolls, that information is then sent back to the state and added to the central database. This process, which is common across states, does present an opportunity for attackers to manipulate records at their inception.

In Conclusion 
In Conclusion, it looks like many mistakes were made along the way about how the hacking was handled during the election. Hindsight is always 20/20.  What we as Americans have to do is make sure that this does not happen again in 2018 and  2020. How to prevent that from happening is the biggest question. With all the drama Trump dumps on the White House and in turn the American people daily, it is quite obvious there will be no time or energy left to rectify this situation.  

Is the best that America can hope for is that the Russians decide that Trump has not been helpful and either let the chips fall where they may or helps put another person in his place.  Is the best hope that Russia makes a better choice for us the next time around?   

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