An absolutely nothingburger of an article, which, as one might expect, has been misleadingly characterized by jimbob.
First, VR systems and two other unnamed companies provide software for use by elections officials. There is no evidence that they manufacture voting machines. In the case of VR systems, the software they provided to Durham, NC (the main focus of the article) is essentially an electronic record of valid voter registrations and whether or not each voter has already voted.
Second, there is no evidence that the so-called "hacks" were any worse than most companies suffer several times a year. In the case of VR systems, it was a spearfishing attack (which is an unsophisticated form of hacking barely worthy of being called a hack), and VR claims that no important systems were compromised, and certainly not the software that was provided to customers. While hackers could have used data from VR to spearfish against their customers, there is no evidence that any such attack was successful.
Third, voting irregularities happen with, well, regularity in Presidential elections since there are thousands of essentially independent jurisdictions conducting their portion of the election simultaneously, and the number of people who like to whine and complain about perceived irregularities (or simply make up crap out of whole cloth to cause trouble or get attention) probably exceeds several dozen in each jurisdiction.
Fourth, across the country, the number of reported irregularities and their severity was relatively low (as reported in the article itself).
Fifth, more people voted in Durham than ever before, and Hillary Clinton won by more votes than Barack Obama did in 2012.
So, if the Russians did hack the election in Durham, NC, and elsewhere, it would seem that their hacks stabilized the election and helped Hillary in Durham.
I'm scratching my head wondering when liberals will stop grasping at every possible straw to justify their belief that the election was illegitimate. The election is over. Stop your whining.
