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county offices responsible for administering the 2016 elections. but then there is this paragraph in the indictment. by november 2016, but still before the election. the election was november 8th. this means this happened in the first seven days of november. literally the final week before the election. these gru agents sent over 100 spear phishing e-mails to organizations and personnel involved in administering elections. in numerous florida counties. it contained malware that they embedded in their e-mails. the last week of the election? so this isn t like, this is a very specific thing. this isn t like hijacking american political causes to make them more extreme and divisive. this isn t targeting facebook. it was supposed to make people hate hillary clinton or hate
e-mails. the last week of the election? so this isn t like this is a very spec thing. this isn t like hijacking american political causes to make them more extreme. this isn t organizing on facebook. this isn t even what they did to target individual voters on line with content and propaganda that was supposed to make people hate hillary clinton or hate muslims or make you think bernie sanders and donald trump were somehow the same thing. this was spec. this was the last seven days before the election. first week of november. a huge targeted blitz by russian military intelligence blasting hacking tools malware at the individual people who were administering elections in individual florida counties. what did they think they could do in the final week of the election? this wasn t a planning expedition to see how vulnerable those websites were. this was voting time. this was go time. and russia at that moment was trying to gain access to those