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Cyber

CISA Credits State And Local Officials, Federal Partners For Smooth Election Process So Far

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 4th, 2020

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CISA Credits State And Local Officials, Federal Partners For Smooth Election Process So Far

Lessons learned and adopted by state and local election officials over the past four years combined with strong coordination between all levels of government are a key reason that the 2020 national elections process has gone smoothly, at least in terms of cyber security concerns and foreign influence efforts, senior officials with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Tuesday night. Overall, the events of Election Day were “pretty vanilla,” a senior CISA official told reporters during one of…

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