Thread! Russian hackers "targeted state & county offices responsible for administering the U.S. 2016 elections. For example, on or about 10/18/16, [they] visited the websites of certain counties in GEORGIA, IOWA, & FLORIDA to identify vulnerabilities! politico.com/f/?id=00000164… 1/ 
2/ Russian ambassador Kislyak visited Kennesaw University, which housed Georgia’s Election Center, in April 2016. . editiondigital.net/publication/?i…
3/ In August 2016, Secretary of State Kemp refused help from the Department of Homeland Security to secure its systems! (GA was one of only two states to do this.) thehill.com/policy/technol…
4/ The same month, August 2016, a white hat hacker Logan Lamb discovered the Georgia Election Center had left 15 gigabytes of data, which looked like it could be used to hack an election, online and without password protection. politico.com/magazine/story…
5/ Merle King, GA Election Dir., told Lamb that he shld "drop" his shocking find "or the people downtown, the politicians..will crush [you]." (Id.)
6/ King told Lamb he would fix the problem. (Id.) Again, this was in August 2016.
7/ Per the indictment released today, in October 2016, Russian hackers "visited the websites of certain counties in GEORGIA, IOWA, & FLORIDA to identify vulnerabilities." politico.com/f/?id=00000164… …
8/ In March 2017, however, a colleague of Logan Lamb's (the guy who discovered the initial security problem in August 2016) discovered that, for the most part, the problem with the Election Center's exposed files had NOT been fixed! politico.com/magazine/story…
8/ In April 2017, about a week before the #GA06 primary election (Handel v Ossoff), the director of Fulton County’s Election Board (Rick Barron) — who had recently observed elections in Kazakhstan — was chatting on Facebook with a woman in Moscow named Julya Kudaneeva.
9/ Another screenshot relevant to post 8. I obtained both screenshots via @rigel2020. They were originally discovered by someone else who wishes to remain anonymous.
10/ Sorry the screenshot in post 9 is blurry. It says "You are always welcome in Moscow" and is from Kudeneeva to Rick Barron, Director of Elections for Fulton County Georgia.
11/ Someone by the name of “Yulia Kudaneeva” is apparently a Chief Consultant to the Russian Election Federation. via @rigel2020
12/ Recall that it was a "rare error" on a memory card in FULTON COUNTY, Rick Barron's county, that caused the counting stop when Ossoff was head the night of the primary. ajc.com/news/local-gov…
13/ Before the counting stopped, Ossoff was above 50% and poised to win the primary outright. When it started again an hour or so later--after the card was "processed," he was under 50% and thus forced into a runoff with Handel to whom he eventually lost.
9/ I cover all of this and more in my article here. For the info on Kislyak, please see the Updates section at the end. medium.com/@jennycohn1/ge…
10/ You can also see how it unfolded on Twitter the night of the #GA06 primary via these screenshots. It is extremely unsettling. To say the least.
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