Russian Arrested in Spain 'Over US Election Hacking' (bbc.com)

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in "hacking" the US election, BBC reported Monday, citing local press reports. From the report: Pyotr Levashov, arrested on 7 April in Barcelona, has now been remanded in custody. A "legal source" also told the AFP news agency that Mr Levashov was the subject of an extradition request by the US. The request is due to be examined by Spain's national criminal court, the agency added. El Confidencial, a Spanish news website, has said that Mr Levashov's arrest warrant was issued by US authorities over suspected "hacking" that helped Donald Trump's campaign.

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[exabrial]

He's not being arrested for "hacking the election" he's being arrested because of other crimes:

* https://krebsonsecurity.com/20...
* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

So wrong

[SuperKendall]

The DNC stuff was minor and esoteric. It didn't even register with voters.

Are you nuts? It registered strongly with EVERY Bernie Sanders supporter. Search Twitter around that time and you'll find it was far from "esoteric" that Sanders had been ejected from the race by the DNC leadership.

Then there's the mounting evidence that Russia hacked voter rolls

Where is that exactly? The only effort ever put forth (by the Green party) showed no Russian involvement and resulted in a few more votes for Trump than were originally counted.