In May 2019, the Washington Post reports that, contrary to years of federal government denials, the GRU was in fact able to access “voter information files” in at least two U.S. counties in 2016, both in Florida; when one of the two counties is identified by Politico as Washington County, neither county officials nor the FBI is willing to release additional information about the hacks to the public.15 Whether the GRU successfully gained access to sensitive voter information in other “battleground” states—information that could, if altered, affect U.S. voters’ ability to cast a ballot for
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