State voter registration systems have not been hacked, officials say

Federal and state officials said Tuesday that despite fears to the contrary, there's no evidence that any state's voter registration database has been hacked this year.

A viral article in the Russian newspaper Kommersant claimed that a user on a Russian hacker forum had acquired the personal information of 7.6 million voters in Michigan and other voters in several other states, prompting claims that they had recently been hacked.

But all that information was already publicly available, multiple officials said. "Voter information in Michigan and elsewhere is accessible to anyone through a FOIA request," Tracy Wimmer, a spokesperson for Michigan's State Department, said in a statement, referring to the Freedom of Information Act. "Our system has not been hacked.