Russians? Chinese? gun hating liberals who hate Dixieland? All of those and others could be responsible for one of the weirdest cyber attacks of recent times after an election in Knox County, the main seat of government for Knoxville, Tennessee, population 432,226 was targeted by a distributed-denial-of-service attack.

The DDoS attacked occurred Tuesday evening, knocking county servers offline in a seeming attempt to delay the publication of the election results. Described by Cyber Security Hub as the DDoS “incident of the week,” the attack itself did not affect voting nor compromise the tallying of the results only their publication, which saw the county resorting to printing the result in paper for distribution instead.

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