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The 2020 election was being closely monitored by the DOD, National Guard and the NSA. It was their #1 priority for years and they were prepared for it.
The National guard was deployed in 12 states before the election on Nov. 3rd.

One of their mission was assisting with cyber defense in those 12 states.

Link
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/election-2020/2020/11/02/national-guard-election-day-update-more-than-3000-troops-active-in-14-states/
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona all brought in the National guard and are also battleground states of the 2020 election.

During the late nights of Nov. 3rd into the early mornings of Nov. 4th in these states is when the program caught them.
This program is called the 'Cyber 9-Line'.

It is a template of questions that participating National Guard units use to quickly communicate a cyber incident to USCYBERCOM.
United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States' Department of Defense.

About
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
Thanks to the open lines of communication across government agencies, USCYBERCOM leveraged key insights from stateside cyber incidents through the National Guard.
Cyber information provided through the National Guard units contributed to the NSA and Intelligence Community operation.

This allowed the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) teams to pursue bad actors on foreign partner networks.
Foreign partner networks:

Dominion Voting --> Canada
Smartmatic --> UK
Scytl --> Spain
The map below is where Dominion Voting was located during the election.

Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all had Dominion Voting, the National Guard and is where a number of voter fraud cases are taking place.

Coincidence?
Securing the 2020 presidential elections was the NSA and USCYBERCOM’s No. 1 priority and they have been planning this for a long time.
USCYBERCOM cooperates with NSA networks and has been concurrently headed by the Director of the National Security Agency - Paul M. Nakasone ( @CYBERCOM_DIRNSA) - since its inception.
Remember when 17 posted this on Jun 24, 2020. https://twitter.com/ODNIgov/status/1275538586058862592?s=20
John Ratcliffe ( @DNI_Ratcliffe) was chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection during the 115th Congress (2017–19), when Republicans controlled the House.

He has expertise in cyber-security.
To get ready for the election, these departments engaged in technical declassified challenges, that are posted online, in specific areas to sharpen their skills.
The USCYBERCOM Technical Challenge Problem Set posted on Aug 18th, 2020 reflects their most pressing capability needs
https://www.cybercom.mil/Portals/56/Documents/2020%20Tech%20Challenge%20Problems%20UNCLASS%20CAO-PAO%20FINAL.pdf?ver=2020-08-18-160721-850

Adversary Attribution through BLOCK-CHAIN was one of them.
Does this have anything to do with the block-chain watermarks that are supposedly on the ballots?

Only time will tell.
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