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New York Times: Russian election hacking efforts, wider than previously known, draw little scrutiny

Published Sept. 1, 2017. Updated Sept. 1 at 9:46 pm

Network cables are seen going into a server in an office building in Washington, DC on May 13.

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The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November.

Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls, even when they displayed current registration cards. Others were sent from one polling place to another, only to be rejected. Scores of voters were incorrectly told they had cast ballots days earlier. In one precinct, voting halted for two hours.