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DHS Official: States Need More Funds To Replace Outdated Election Systems

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, July 12th, 2018

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DHS Official: States Need More Funds To Replace Outdated Election Systems

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

A top Department of Homeland Security official told a House panel Wednesday that states do not have enough funds to replace outdated voting systems ahead of the midterm elections in November. Christopher Krebs, DHS undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate, said that all 50 states’ election systems may have been subjected to cyber scanning by Russian actors in the 2016 election furthering the need to replace vulnerable voting infrastructure.“There are challenges from a procurement perspective. There’s also the…

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