Russian hacking FAIL: DHS tells 21 states Moscow’s ballot offensive was NOT successful

(National Sentinel) Election 2016: There are still people within the Democratic Party and among their supporters who believe the lie that the Trump campaign “colluded” with Russia to “steal the election” from Hillary Clinton.

There are also people who believe Moscow was able to successfully hack into voting machines and change votes from Clinton to Trump.

The former narrative has been disproven time and time again.

The latter narrative has just been disproven — not that it will convince the most ardent Left-wing conspiracy theorists otherwise.

As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the Department of Homeland Security has put to rest any suspicions that Russian hackers changed the outcome of the 2016 Election:

The Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states Friday that Russian hackers attempted unsuccessfully to interfere with their voting systems in the 2016 election.

DHS reported that no votes were changed by Russian hacking, Reuters reports. DHS refused to disclose which state governments it approached, but Wisconsin officials made it known that they were among the group.

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said that he was informed that “Russian government cyber actors” targeted his state’s voter registration systems.

However, while hackers “scanned internet-connected election infrastructure likely seeking specific vulnerabilities such as access to voter registration databases, but the attempt to exploit vulnerabilities was unsuccessful,” Haas said.

In June, DHS informed Congress that 21 states were targeted by hackers, but that while a few were breached, no votes were changed.

Wisconsin went for Trump. It was the first time since 1984 the state backed a Republican candidate.

Still, election hacking is a serious matter, and it has some states thinking of abandoning electronic voting and returning to paper ballots in the future.

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After AG Sessions ordered this, states began pushing new voter ID measures

(NationalSentinel) Elections: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the Justice Department to withdraw from a lawsuit in Texas challenging that state’s voter identification laws, an action that has led more states to now consider new ID measures to strengthen voter integrity.

As reported by The Daily Caller, Sessions’ decision is a reversal from previous Justice Department policy; the Obama administration spent six years battling Texas over its voter ID law.

The DC noted further:

Officials from the Justice Department contacted liberal activist groups on board with the lawsuit against Texas, including the Brennan Center for Justice, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the NAACP, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about the change in policy at the DOJ, Salon reported.

Texas’s Republican majority legislature passed one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country in 2011 that mandated voters to show a driver’s license, passport or other government-issued photo ID prior to casting a ballot. The Obama administration Justice Department managed to block the law in 2013 after the department sued the state. A federal appeals court later ruled in 2016 the law discriminated against minorities without IDs and the legislation needed to be loosened.

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The Texas legislature changed the law to abide by the court’s rulings and had unveiled it a week before the DoJ decision.

Now that the case has been dropped, more than a dozen other states are considering similar changes to their voter ID requirements.

While Democrats repeatedly state that voter fraud is non-existent, they seem to be the party more interested in disassembling laws aimed at ensuring electoral integrity.