The U.S. government on September 22 notified 21 states that their voting systems were targeted by hackers in last year’s presidential election, and several of the most closely contested states said the hackers were linked to the Russian government.
The so-called battleground states of Wisconsin, Ohio, Colorado, and Minnesota, where Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton lost in some cases by only a few thousand votes to then-Republican candidate Donald Trump, were among those that blamed Russian hackers.
