Election officials receive suspicious emails

Several emails identified by the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC) appeared to impersonate state elections directors, according to a private alert sent Friday and reviewed by Journal.

These emails requested the election official recipients click on a link to get two-factor authentication hardware, but the EI-ISAC, an information sharing group, did not find malicious links or attachments in most of the emails sampled.

Another set of emails impersonated voters with disabilities who were asking about ways to vote from home.

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“While these phishing messages appear to be part of a widespread campaign, the source and motive remain unclear,” the alert said.

The alert noted that the emails have not been connected to any foreign adversaries and do not seem to be very coordinated or sophisticated, a person familiar with the matter told the Journal.

  

Then I'd look for a Trump connection.

Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced the discovery of a series of threatening emails sent to voters that appeared to come from a far-right group but had in fact been traced to Iran, although Tehran has denied the allegations.

How about came from Iran via a far-right group?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.