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A new firm has taken ownership of hosting Maryland’s elections data after a federal investigation into the Russian ties of the previous vendor. The state elections administrator says Maryland will use Intelishift and a subsidiary, The Sidus Group, now that ByteGrid is no longer connected to Sidus.

Maryland's U.S. senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen on Tuesday asked Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin to investigate a Russian investor's ties to a company that manages the state's election technology.

Annie Eissler, chief marketing officer for the vendor, ByteGrid LLC, sought to assuage worries from top Maryland leaders after the FBI last week alerted them to ties between the company and a Russian oligarch.

The FBI investigates whether a Maryland "computer glitch" that might have wiped as many as 80,000 voters off election rolls for last month's primary was part of Russia's alleged hacking of U.S. elections.