DALLAS – The head of the country’s cybersecurity agency said election infrastructure is more secure than ever. But she warned that people will still try to influence the election and threaten violence against election workers.
The Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency was created following Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Jen Easterly, the director of the CISA, held a virtual news conference on Friday for Texas and the surrounding states, just as news broke that Chinese hackers tried to compromise phones belonging to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance.
Voting in the United States is decentralized. It’s not online and is different in each state.
Easterly said that actually strengthens the election process and makes it next to impossible for a malicious actor to hack voting machines in a way that would have a material outcome on the election without their efforts being detected.
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