“Depressingly, the Obama admin decided to keep a lid on most of what it knew so as not to undermine the public& #39;s confidence in the integrity of the election, even though those same people..knew that the integrity of the election was...up for grabs.” 1/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55603/russia-hack-voting-totals/">https://www.esquire.com/news-poli...

“Illinois became Patient Zero in the government& #39;s probe, eventually leading investigators to a hacking pandemic that touched four out of every five U.S. states.” 2/

“Using evidence from the Illinois computer banks, federal agents were able to develop digital "signatures" -- among them, Internet Protocol addresses used by the attackers -- to spot the hackers at work.” 3/

“The signatures were then sent through Homeland Security alerts and other means to every state. Thirty-seven states reported finding traces of the hackers in various systems, according to one of the people familiar with the probe.” 4/

“In two others -- Florida and California -- those traces were found in systems run by a private contractor managing critical election systems.” (HOW DID I MISS THIS?!) 5/