>CIA claims Kremlin lent a hand...
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>So what? Anyone can claim anything they like. Have they backed it up yet? Besides, in order for anyone, Russian or otherwise, to hack into our voting machines, those machines have to be hooked up to the internet (which they are not). The dems are just sore losers...

First of all, the issue isn't necessarily hacking of the voting machines, but of the process as a whole? Among other things, we know the Russians hacked into the voter registration systems of several states: http://abcnews.go.com/US/russian-hackers-targeted-half-states-voter-registration-systems/story?id=42435822. (I have no idea whether you trust ABC or not, but that was simply the first link I found.)

Second, voting machines don't actually have to be hooked up to the Internet to be hacked. The equivalent of Sneakernet works. Specifically, for DRE machines, before the election, some kind of external medium (SD card, flash drive, ...) is connected to the machine in order to set up the ballot. So, if one could get access to the machine used to prepare that external medium, one could hack the DRE machines for a whole county. Here's a piece by a CS professor who studies this stuff: https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba#.ut0y9ro3d.

As for whether the security agencies have backed it up, AIUI, the issue is how to present the evidence to the public without exposing their sources. I imagine a lot of folks are scrambling around now trying to figure out what they can say and what they can't.

Tamar