Comment Re:"The very real problem of election hacking" (Score 1) 139
As far public evidence goes, the "Russian interference" basically boils down to three prongs:
1. Hacking into state voter registration to get detailed data for targetting voters in critical states. Comey stated publicly that Russians tried this hundreds of times through spearfishing attacks, but it is unclear how successful they actually were in accessing/tampering with voter registrations.
2. Hacking and releasing e-mails from the DNC and John Podesta. We now know that more than one person unofficially affiliated with the Trump campaign was involved in chasing after the missing e-mails (Roger Stone contacting Guccifer 2.0 and Peter W. Smith contacting Russian hackers, allegedly with instructions from Michael Flynn).
3. Releasing targeted propaganda/fake news on Facebook etc. to try to influence voters. This operation was allegedly run by Brad Parscale and Cambridge Analytica, although the evidence that they directly collaborated with Russian hackers to obtain voter data is missing. Almost no one is suggesting voting machines were directly hacked.