1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated March 12, 2020Election Security: Federal Funding for Securing Election SystemsRussia targeted state and local systems as part of its effort to interfere with the 2016 elections, according to the U.S. intelligence community. Reports of Russias activities highli
2、ghted the potential for threats to the technologies, facilities, and processes used to administer elections. Congress has responded to such threats, in part, by providing and proposing funding to help secure elections. This In Focus offers an overview of federal funding for securing election systems
3、. It starts with some background on potential threats to state and local election systems and then summarizes the funding Congress has provided and proposed to help secure those systems. Background Elections-related systems in all 50 states were likely targeted in the 2016 election cycle, according
4、to a July 2019 report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Some attempts to access state and local systems succeeded. Russian actors reportedly extracted data from the statewide voter registration database in one state, for example, and breached county systems in another. Multiple techn
