(Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via Associated Press)The New York Times never reported that election systems in Durham, N.C., had succumbed to Russian hacking. Publication of the story touched off some contentious correspondence between elections officials in North Carolina and the New York Times. It stated that the story had referred “incorrectly to problems with voter rolls in three North Carolina counties that included the cities of Raleigh, Winston-Salem and Charlotte. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)The New York Times isn’t budging much. The Erik Wemple Blog requested an interview with the New York Times to probe the decision to include Durham’s voting-day glitches in a story about Russian hacking.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2017 15:03 UTC