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US cyber officials: 'No evidence' of interference behind isolated Election Day equipment malfunctions

US cyber officials: 'No evidence' of interference behind isolated Election Day equipment malfunctions
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US cyber officials: 'No evidence' of interference behind isolated Election Day equipment malfunctions
Federal cyber officials confirmed to Hearst Television's National Investigative Unit they see "no evidence" of any interference behind isolated election equipment malfunctions in a few states, including in Arizona and New Jersey. Election officials in those states have attributed the outages to technical issues that they said they were working to resolve, pledging all cast ballots will be counted.At the same time, U.S. homeland security authorities said they are seeing new foreign influence activity from certain countries that had not sought to influence and dupe American voters in prior election cycles. Those officials did not identify the additional countries they believe are now taking part in the influence operations.Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert is on the election security beat.

Federal cyber officials confirmed to Hearst Television's National Investigative Unit they see "no evidence" of any interference behind isolated election equipment malfunctions in a few states, including in Arizona and New Jersey.

Election officials in those states have attributed the outages to technical issues that they said they were working to resolve, pledging all cast ballots will be counted.

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At the same time, U.S. homeland security authorities said they are seeing new foreign influence activity from certain countries that had not sought to influence and dupe American voters in prior election cycles. Those officials did not identify the additional countries they believe are now taking part in the influence operations.

Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert is on the election security beat.