Churov: Russia cannot alter US vote counts

Neither Russia nor any other country can rig the vote count at the upcoming US presidential elections because of the standalone nature of US voter registration and counting systems, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large Vladimir Churov said.

"No one from the outside can affect these results in any way. In every country voter registration, vote count and transfer systems are independent of the Internet. This is a local network using dedicated separate secure communication channels that simply have no outward access and are not susceptible to any external influence," Sputnik cited Churov as saying.

"You can affect a website. But a site is a site: a party site, a central electoral body, the governor's site, the state's site. But tampering in the process of voter registration, vote count, aggregation, counting the number of electoral delegates is absolutely impossible. The same goes for any other systems. No state has been able to intervene in the above in my 25 years in politics," he stressed.