National Association of Secretaries of State event includes keynote address devoted to election cybersecurity. Many of the event’s attendees are directly responsible for overseeing their state’s election systems’ integrity and security. Many states have responded by purchasing more secure voting machines, switching to paper ballots, delivering better information security training to their personnel as well as working more closely with the federal government to defend against future hack attacks. In June 2017, DHS officials told Congress that in 2016, attackers had probed 21 states’ networks and websites, including in some cases election systems.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/states-seek-federal-help-to-combat-election-interference-a-10667