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The lead official for the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday she is urging state election officials to push Congress for increased election security funding and calling on the Senate to pass a long-standing bill to operationalize a cyber protection office in the department before the year’s end.DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told attendees at a Washington Post cyber summit that officials haven’t detected threats from foreign adversaries targeting election infrastructure ahead of the upcoming November midterm elections, but said critical…
