Rubio’s office declined comment. The Senate Intelligence Committee did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“This is no fooling time and that’s why two senators, bipartisan, reached out to the election apparatus of Florida to let them know the Russians are in your records and all they have to do, if those election records are not protected, is to go in and start eliminating registered voters,” Nelson told the Times.
“You can imagine the chaos that would occur on Election Day when the voters get to the polls” and discover they are no longer registered, he said.
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian operatives targeted the 2016 presidential race with a hacking and disinformation campaign to try to tilt the election in President Donald Trump’s favor. They said they found no evidence vote tallies were changed.
U.S. intelligence officials have said Russian election interference efforts are continuing and now target the Nov. 6 elections.
Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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