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The two most concentrated places in that state for democratic votes was houston county and dallas county. there were hundreds of thousands of democratic votes cast in just those two counties. in october, before the election, department of homeland security sent out an alert to local election officials around the country telling them that they, the homeland security department, had identified a concerted effort to hack into election systems around the country. and homeland security distributed a list of about 600 suspicious ip addresses, specific computer addresses, basically, from which these ...

Attack, it was multiple attempts. he told the "dallas morning news," quote, the fact that there were that many attempts means they expected to disrupt, if you disrupt the voter file, when people are trying to validate voter information at the polls, you would get mass confusion. the "dallas morning news" reported on these attacks a few days ago, they contacted a couple of republican-leaning counties just outside dallas county to see if they went through the same thing. they contacted the election administrators in collin county and ter rent county right next door to dallas county. election adm...

Door to dallas county. election administrators in those counties, as far as they could tell, they didn't get attacked. tarrant county, that votes republican, the election administrator there said he, too, scanned his county system to see if any of those 600 ip addresses had tried to mount any attacks, or try to attack their system. said he didn't get a single match. why did these russian hackers only target the democratic county and not the republican counties next door? is that the kind of thing that happened nationwide? is there a pattern of that kind of thing? is it because dallas is a famo...

Distributed a list of about 600 suspicious ip addresses, specific computer addresses, basically, from which these attacks were being launched. and they told election officials all over the country that they should scan their systems locally to see if there was any evidence of these ip addresses, if there had been any attempts of hacking from these specific ip addresses and they sent them all out in a big long list, 600 of them. last week dallas's election administer said they followed that advice. she said when she and her staff scanned is it systems in october to see if they had been hit by a...

Administ administer said they followed that. to see if they had been hit by any of those ip addresses on that list of 600 sent out by homeland security, they got 17 hits. 17 ip addresses made an effort to attack the dallas county voter roles. they worked with federal authorities. they told the county at least 17 of those addresses in which hacking attempts had been made, at least some of those 17 definitively were computers in russia. now, what the hack attempt was there was not on computer systems that were used to tabulate the vote, but if you think about it, that doesn't necessarily matter....