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What's more, the voting itself was remarkably smooth.

There were not clear rules in many states for voting by mail or sufficient opportunities for voting early.

Many states handled voting by mail and early voting impressively and huge numbers of volunteers turned up to work the polls.

Most significantly, there was no serious effort to target voting infrastructure.

The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chris Krebs, released a statement, saying that "After millions of Americans voted, we have no evidence any foreign adversary was capable of preventing Americans from voting or changing vote tallies." Krebs pledged to "Remain vigilant for any attempts by foreign actors to target or disrupt the ongoing vote counting and final certification of results," and no reports have emerged of threats to tabulation and certification processes.

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