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The hearing examined “American Confidence in Elections” while looking forward to the 2024 Presidential Election in just under two months. (Photo by Bonnie Cash\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"109.68743325027\"><body readability=\"220.22930889367\"><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity was once considered a side issue in election administration. Eight years after the Russian government waged a multi-pronged effort to interfere in the 2016 elections and four years after former President Donald Trump left office spewing a flurry of falsehoods in a scorched-earth campaign to undermine the integrity of U.S. voting, things look a little different. <\/p>\n<p>When six secretaries of state descended upon Washington to testify in front of Congress this week on the state of U.S. election readiness, virtually every topic discussed related to cybersecurity or false and misleading claims around election fraud driven by foreign or domestic disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity was one of the first things highlighted by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in his opening statement, with the Republican touting his state\u2019s installation of Albert intrusion sensors for county election boards, the rollout of endpoint detection and response systems, network segmentation, vulnerability disclosure policies and the hiring of a full-time CISO. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, began his testimony by discussing how his state has responded to the emergence of generative AI and deepfakes through novel trainings and tabletop exercises, which CyberScoop reported on in-depth <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/ai-election-wokers-training-deepfakes\/\">earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The hearing served as a demonstration of the central role that technology and digital security now play in modern elections. But it also included lengthy and contentious exchanges around voter fraud, noncitizen voting and negligent election procedures that have been the subject of numerous disinformation campaigns over the past four years. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-myth-of-rampant-noncitizen-voting\"><strong>The myth of rampant noncitizen voting<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The notion that state voter rolls are poorly maintained and packed with illegal immigrants voting in American elections has been central to the messaging put out by the Trump campaign, amplified by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and spread by congressional allies and supporters online. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from already being a federal felony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/series\/myth-noncitizen-voting\">numerous studies<\/a> have shown that noncitizen voting and registration are largely non-existent problems, and certainly not election-swinging ones. <\/p>\n<p>David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, told reporters last week that the number of \u201cpotential noncitizens\u201d found on voter rolls in state audits are \u201cextraordinarily small, and what some states don\u2019t then go and say is how many of them actually voted, because that number will be virtually zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, a number of mostly conservative states and localities have pulled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ericstates.org\/\">Electronic Registration Information Center<\/a>, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that allows states to compare voter registration, licensing and identification data across different states to update and maintain accurate voter databases. Some have switched to using tools developed by partisan conservative organizations that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/conservative-activists-errors-software-voter-fraud-rcna161028\">been error-prone<\/a> and flagged thousands of eligible voters as ineligible to vote. <\/p>\n<p>As Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd noted in his testimony, his state\u2019s voter registration numbers are constantly fluctuating largely due to things that have nothing to do with voter fraud or ineligible noncitizens attempting to cast a ballot. That number changes every minute of every day, the Republican said: A person turns 18, a person passes away, a person moves into the state, a person moves out of the state. A person becomes a U.S. citizen and registers to vote for the first time, a person becomes a felon or has their voting rights restored. <\/p>\n<p>Byrd, Rose and Warner remarked at one point that the U.S. should have a \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy for any instances of non-citizen voting, saying some local races in their states often come down to a handful of votes. <\/p>\n<p>But critics contend that there are already numerous laws and procedures in place to prevent non-citizen voting. Voters must attest under penalty of perjury that they are eligible citizens before registering, and election officials cross reference voter data with state and federal databases from the Social Security Administration, state departments and motor vehicle departments to validate their citizenship. <\/p>\n<p>They also cite <a href=\"https:\/\/cdce.umd.edu\/sites\/cdce.umd.edu\/files\/pubs\/Voter%20ID%20survey%20Key%20Results%20June%202024.pdf\">studies<\/a> that show at least 1 in 10 eligible voters in America don\u2019t have ready access to a driver\u2019s license, birth certificate and other documents that underpin proof of citizenship laws. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-federal-voter-registration-initiatives-only-look-to-register-democrats\"><strong>Federal voter registration initiatives only look to register Democrats<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>An argument repeatedly pushed by congressional Republicans during the hearing was that the Biden administration\u2019s executive order on promoting access to voting has operated as a secret \u201cget out the vote\u201d operation for Democrats. In particular, they\u2019ve highlighted partnerships between the Small Business Administration and states like Michigan to help direct citizens to online resources around voter registration and serve as a formally designated Voter Registration Agency under the National Voter Registration Act. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a charge that has bubbled up from conservative influencers in recent years, with congressional Republicans holding hearings on the issue. Murphy questioned Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, on her state\u2019s partnership with the SBA, repeatedly charging that the agency\u2019s initiatives sought to register voters \u201conly for Democrats.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But there doesn\u2019t appear to be any hard evidence showing that the SBA designed its voter registration initiative to favor or boost Democratic turnout. The only services listed on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-08\/SBA%20Voter%20Registration%20EO%20Participation_Fact%20Sheet_SBA%20-%2008.16.24.pdf\">fact sheet<\/a> for the program are to direct voters to nonpartisan voter registration resources on federal websites and serve as a Voter Registration Agency for states that request it. <\/p>\n<p>When House Republicans held a hearing on the SBA\u2019s supposed weaponization of voter registration in June, one of the witnesses, Lisa Danetz, pointed out that federal agencies are prohibited by the NVRA and the Hatch Act from engaging in partisan politics, and that armed forces recruiting centers, military installations and tribal colleges have all previously served as designated Voter Registration Agencies under the NVRA in Democratic and Republican administrations. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She further noted that \u201cthe intergovernmental agreement in this case also prohibits partisan conduct by any SBA staff in Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-overhyped-threats-to-election-officials\"><strong>\u2018Overhyped\u2019 threats to election officials<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, who ran for governor earlier this year before bowing out in the Republican primary, claimed in his testimony that the Biden administration and allies were \u201chyping domestic terrorism and overplaying threats to election officials\u201d instead of tackling real problems. <\/p>\n<p>But as <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/picketed-at-work-confronted-at-church-why-election-workers-have-left-the-job\/\">CyberScoop has reported<\/a>, the alarm about threats to election workers has come primarily from state and local officials who have been on the front lines of election administration. Many have said that unfounded conspiracy theories about vote-rigging have gotten dramatically worse since the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, and that overwhelming suspicion has isolated them from their own communities and families.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., expressed his sympathies to state officials, noting that threats and harassment have gone up for elected officials like him as well, something <a href=\"https:\/\/ctc.westpoint.edu\/rising-threats-to-public-officials-a-review-of-10-years-of-federal-data\/\">independent research<\/a> has borne out. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sadly enough the world we live in and I blame social media, primarily for all of it,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Murphy then used his five minutes of questioning to accuse election officials and the Biden administration of \u201csmugness,\u201d intentionally allowing dead people and illegal immigrants to vote in U.S. elections and collaborating to create a one-party state in America. All of those claims, each with little to no evidence behind them, have been cited as motivating factors by individuals charged with threatening or harassing election workers in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies like the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and national organizations like the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Officials have stepped up awareness and resourcing around the problem, with the Justice Department starting a task force dedicated to combating and prosecuting election-related threats. <\/p>\n<p>Put another way, the DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/doj-task-force-formed-2021-fight-election-threats\/story?id=113355654\">has brought <\/a>more charges this year against individuals for threatening election officials (20) than the number of fraudulent votes identified by courts in dozens of legal challenges from the Trump campaign in 2020 (0). <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-yes-elections-continue-to-be-underfunded\"><strong>Yes, elections continue to be underfunded <\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A persistently sore subject among state and local officials has been sputtering federal funding support since elections were designated critical infrastructure by the Department of Homeland Security in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>This past year, Congress allocated just $55 million in federal grant dollars to states for security and other improvements to elections, and Republican House appropriators in June passed a proposed budget on a party-line vote that would zero out all funding for the program next year, while also dramatically slashing funding for another federal body, the Election Assistance Commission. <\/p>\n<p>That has come as some members who have previously supported federal election funding to states, such as Sen. James Lankford, R. Okla., have expressed concerns that states aren\u2019t spending the federal HAVA dollars they already have. <\/p>\n<p>But states <a href=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2024\/06\/19\/states-struggle-with-unreliable-federal-funding-for-making-sure-elections-are-secure\/\">continue to report<\/a> urgent, ongoing funding shortfalls to handle the increasing responsibilities they have around election administration, including cybersecurity and fighting back against voting mis- and disinformation. <\/p>\n<p>Fontes rattled off a litany of preparations Arizona undertook for the four elections it has administered just in 2024, including improved trainings for new election officials, tiger teams of technologists to bolster IT infrastructure at county election offices and resource assessments. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNone of this is free and none of it is cheap,\u201d Fontes said. \u201cOur operations, administration and security depend on intermittent, rare and never enough funding for the Help America Vote Act grants that we are occasionally given by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fontes went a step further, challenging the committee and Congress to put real resources behind their rhetorical concerns about election security. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe implore you, please consider that if this is such a big deal, and if it is so important that we continue to have free, fair and secure elections, fund them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.6162361623616\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/cybersecurity-disinformation-dominates-hearing-on-elections-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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