ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Operating from St. Petersburg, they churned out falsehoods on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. They promoted Donald J. Trump and denigrated Hillary Clinton. They stole the identities of American citizens.Source: The Troll Farm: What We Know About 13 Russians Indicted by the U.S....
If anyone knows how easily voting can be disrupted, it's a county election supervisor in the state of Florida. That's one reason several dozen of them gathered in Orlando recently to discuss ways to protect against the most recent threat — cyberattacks by Russia or others intent on disrupting U.S.Source: Cybertraining Election Officials For This Year's Voting...
On a quiet, tree-lined street in Racine, Wisconsin, in a neighborhood known as the Danish Village for its Scandinavian ancestry, sits a two-story white house with a large American flag hanging from the porch and a pro-police "We Back the Badge" sign in the yard.Source: How the GOP Rigs Elections...
WASHINGTON — Minnesota has a dress code for voting. The idea, the state says, is to create a safe space for democracy.Source: When a T-Shirt Gets You in Trouble at the Voting Booth...
Donald Trump Jr. leaves the Senate Intelligence Committee on December 13, 2017. Trump Jr. was interviewed by the committee for nine hours as part of its investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Source: The Trump Campaign-Russia Alliance and Campaign Finance...
ATLANTA — President Donald Trump hasn’t backed away from his unsubstantiated claim that millions of illegally cast ballots cost him the popular vote in 2016, but his efforts to investigate it appear to have stalled.Source: Trump’s attempts to show voter fraud appear to have stalled...
Marco Rubio, a Republican, represents Florida in the U.S. Senate. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, represents Maryland in the U.S. Senate.Source: Our elections are in danger. Congress must defend them....
President Trump has shown little interest in fighting the threat of Russians hacking U.S. elections. He's shown a lot of interest in fighting voter fraud, something he insists — without evidence — is widespread. Parts of his administration are doing just the opposite.Source: Trump Official On Russian Hacking: 'A National Security Issue'...
State voter registration data collected by President Trump’s abandoned election fraud commission will be destroyed and not shared with the Department of Homeland Security or any other agency, a White House aide told a federal judge.Source: White House says it will destroy Trump voter panel data, send no records to DHS...
After more than three decades, Republicans are free of a federal court consent decree that sharply limited the Republican National Committee's ability to challenge voters' qualifications and target the kind of fraud President Donald Trump has alleged affected the 2016 presidential race.Source: Judge ends consent decree limiting RNC 'ballot security' activities...
