Politics

DHS Never Ran Audit to See if Votes Were Hacked

‘Didn’t Happen’

The Department of Homeland Security insists that no one hacked actual votes—but admits it never ran an audit to check.

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Despite assurances from the U.S. intelligence community that Russian hacking only influenced the 2016 U.S. election—and didn’t change vote tallies—there was never actually a formal federal audit of those systems, the Department

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