Cybersecurity agency director emphasizes safeguard measures for upcoming elections | 4thepeople-elections-coverage [Video]

Government officials held a conference Friday to discuss the steps they’re taking to uphold voting integrity in our community.

During the meeting, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Jen Easterly said her team has made significant progress in the previous eight years to make sure elections are secure and resilient.

Easterly urges Americans to trust their votes will be counted as cast. She highlighted three reasons she is confident in election security: 

• The machines used to vote are not connected to the internet.
• Over 97% of registered voters will cast their ballots in jurisdictions where they will get a paper record that they can verify.
• Election officials have put in place multiple layers of safeguards to prevent election infrastructure from being compromised. These include pre-election testing of equipment for accuracy and post-election audits.

Easterly said although elections are safer than ever, the threat environment has never been more …