SOUTHWEST Fla. - The FBI is refusing to tell Florida's election supervisors which counties were hacked by Russia in the 2016 election.

A meeting between the FBI and the supervisors comes a week after startling revelations that Russians hacked into two Florida counties.

All 67 of the state’s election supervisors met with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

One of the big topics, of course, was more security heading into the 2020 election

Homeland Security warned supervisors during their 2017 meeting that they were all targets.

A similar meeting was held just this week in Daytona Beach.

When asked if the FBI or DHS revealed which counties were hacked, Lee Supervisor Tommy Doyle said they did not and that he and others were surprised they did not.

“What happens to one supervisor happens to us all because there are 67 of us, and we're all one big family,” Doyle said.

But the FBI has told nearly 30 elected officials, including Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, who got hacked.





The voters and the election supervisors, it appears, may never find out.

“It doesn't matter if they got hacked. We want to learn from it,” Doyle said.

Hackers used a phishing email to target Lee and Collier counties in an attempted hack in 2016.

Now, Lee County is using the scheme to teach their employees.

“We have been sending out these phishing emails for the past year and so far 100% of our staff has not opened it,” Doyle noted.

Lee County alone has spent more than $450,000 since 2016 for security upgrades. The bulk of that money comes from federal grants and even more is expected to be spent as we approach the 2020 election. 

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