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The US Senate Intelligence Committee tacitly released its preliminary report on Russian hacker attacks on Tuesday. The committee, led by Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) (photo left), says Russian hackers “accessed voter registration databases” and were able to “modify or delete voter registration information.”

The report does not state whether votes or registration data have been changed, only that “saw no evidence that vote counts were tampered with or that voter registration information was deleted or changed. “

A cautionary note is added that “a small number of districts in key states can have a significant influence on a national election”. Indeed, fewer than 80,000 votes in only three states indicated electoral college gains Donald Trump.

The report clarifies that the Senate Intelligence Committee “has limited information on whether and to what extent state and local officials have conducted forensic or other investigations into electoral infrastructure systems to confirm whether electoral-related systems have been compromised.”

To be clear, it says: “It is possible that additional activities have taken place and have not yet been revealed.”

In other words, changes could have been made but the committee does not know.

How widespread were the Russian attacks on the US election infrastructure?

Between 18 and 21 states “had electoral systems that were in some way targeted by cyber-related actors”.

“In a small number of states, these cyber actors have been able to at least modify or delete voter registration data. However, they did not seem able to manipulate individual voices or overall voices. “

The full report is available on the Senate Intelligence Committee website.

Senator @MarkWarner, @SenatorCollins, Senator @MartinHeinrich, @SenatorLankford and I posted the following statement summarizing our findings and recommendations: pic.twitter.com/RgcIGzPDri

– Richard Burr (@SenatorBurr) May 8, 2018