Election officials say money, training needed to improve security
(WorldNews Politics)

Regional U.S. election officials attending a hacker conference in Las Vegas Friday said they need more money and training to enhance cybersecurity of their election infrastructure. The thousands of local election officers around the U.S. have neither the cyber knowledge nor resources to stand up to attacks from adversarial nations and need the support of state and federal governments, they said. However, they warned that focusing too much on the vulnerabilities could backfire by undermining citizens’ confidence in the system. “There has never been such a spotlight and emphasis [on election hacking] as there has been since 2016. That is our new reality,’’ California...