Two and a half years after the corrupted 2016 election in which Russian hackers meddled in the election to assist Putin pal and con man Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking at voter check-in software used in North Carolina that Russia targeted:
"The malfunction of VR Systems’ electronic poll book software forced officials in the heavily Democratic county to issue paper ballots and extend voting hours. How many voters may have been disenfranchised as a result is unknown. [snip]
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.'” (our emphasis)The delay in examining the software for Russian-installed malware seems to be a result of the party-over-country ethos of Rethugs in a number of states, as in Georgia whose former Secretary of State, and now governor, is a committed Trumper:
"DHS tries to help state and local election authorities secure their voting systems, but frequently encounters resistance, especially in states like Georgia where the current governor, Brian Kemp, even accused [DHS} of trying to hack his state when he was in charge of elections there."Sensitive to being investigated?" You mean like for voter fraud and suppression? It's not enough that Kemp and his ilk went all in on suppressing the Dem vote; he seems to have allowed foreign adversaries to hack voter software as long as it benefitted his corrupt party.
“They have a disincentive to be too aggressive with states that are sensitive to being investigated,” [election integrity activist Susan] Greenhalgh said." (our emphasis)
