Last week I talked to Senator Angus King, I-Maine, and other experts about the Russian attacks on state electoral systems. Their message: the threat was real, it continues, and not enough is being done to prevent a potential Election Day disaster.
I report on all this in this article in yesterday’s Maine Sunday Telegram. Another item of note: one of the leading electoral cybersecurity experts in the country says we can’t rule out vote tallies having been effected last November, absent a forensic audit of those voting machines that we can actually audit.
On Friday, I reported on how two members of President Trump’s commission on electoral fraud — one of them Maine’s secretary of state — want that body to take up the hacking of state systems. For further coverage on the Russia-and-the-2016 Election story, click on the “Russia” label at the bottom of any of these stories.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.