Mueller report: Russia hacked state databases and voting machine companies. Russian intelligence officers injected malicious SQL code and then ran commands to extract information

I should also mention I believe this to be a psy-op by Russia. I mean they took advantage of broken systems in the U.S. Know they are planting the seeds of doubt in everyone's minds that our elections can be trusted.

Without voters actually voting/backing the people running for office, do elections even matter?

That is one way to play this from the Russian perspective. First show the election process is broken; and so when your guy or gal is not elected the next election; you can cry foul and claim it was because the system is broken and was never fixed from this disaster.

Seriously that is how this is seemingly playing out. It is not necessarily all about Trump. Its about our election process.

Putin being ex-KGB is smart enough to know this. That is why the Russian troll/bot farms were stoking the flames on all sides. First create division and then with that division create distrust.

Division and Distrust leads to neither side communicating and thus you end up with everyone forced to believe even more devoutly in their own reasoning; reasoning being manipulated through their social media, news, and whatever else the Russians can do to sow division.

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