As lawyers for Georgia’s secretary of state argued vehemently last fall that the state’s obsolete electronic voting infrastructure was secure from hackers, they failed to mention a warning from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that Georgia might already be a cyber target. 

“Foreign governments may engage in cyber operations targeting the election infrastructure and political organizations in Georgia and engage in influence operations that aim to interfere with the 2018 U.S. elections,” according to a memo by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Southeast region addressing “a Georgia Perspective on Threats to the 2018 U.S. Elections.”