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Federal, State Officials Say Election Systems Are Cyber Resilient

Wednesday, October 5th, 2016

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While there is increasing reliance on information technology by state and local elections systems that opens cyber risks, the dispersed nature of these systems and the fact that voting machines are not connected to the Internet means they are inherently resilient and would be difficult to hack in a significant way, federal and state officials told a House panel on Sept. 28.“Increasingly the nation’s election infrastructure leverages information technology for efficiency and convenience,” Andy Ozment, assistant secretary of Cybersecurity and…

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