DHS Chief: 'No Evidence That Hacking by Any Actor Altered the Ballot Count'
BY NICHOLAS BALLASY
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Casino workers vote at an early voting site in Las Vegas on Oct. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/John Locher)
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said there is “no evidence” that any “bad actor” actually changed the ballot count in the presidential election.
Last week, President Obama ordered a review of possible Russian interference in the election.
“I think it’s important to note that on election night we had our guard up for this. We had our crisis action team ready on election night.
We did not see anything that amounted to altering ballot counts or degrading the ability to report election results, nothing out of the ordinary,” Johnson said during a Washington Post Live event on Tuesday evening.
“There’s always a certain amount of noise that goes on there but on election night itself, we didn’t see anything that affected the ballot count.”
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius asked Johnson if he could assure the country that Russian hacking did not affect the outcome of the presidential election.
“We see no evidence that hacking by any actor altered the ballot count or any cyber actions that deprived people of voting.
Whether the disclosures that we made that we pointed out in our Oct. 7th statement altered public opinion, that’s beyond my level of expertise,” he replied.
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