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With the first primaries of the 2018 elections less than a month away, you might expect federal officials to be wrapping up efforts to safeguard the vote against expected Russian interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal efforts to help states button down elections systems have crawled, hamstrung in part by wariness of federal meddling. Just 14 states and three local election agencies have so far asked for detailed vulnerability assessments offered by the Department of Homeland Security \u2014 and only five of the two-week examinations are complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illinois, for instance \u2014 one of two states where voter registration databases were breached in 2016 \u2014 requested an assessment in January and is still waiting. Primary voters go to the polls there March 20; state officials can\u2019t say whether the assessment will happen beforehand. DHS says the assessments should be finished by mid-April.
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Meantime, fewer than half of the estimated 50 senior state elections officials who requested federal security clearances have received them, DHS says. That can hinder information sharing designed to help states deal with election disruptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Congress is still sitting on three bipartisan bills that address election integrity issues, including funding to upgrade antiquated equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, experts say far too little has been done<\/a> to shore up a vulnerable mishmash of 10,000 U.S. voting jurisdictions that mostly run on obsolete and imperfectly secured technology. Russian agents targeted election systems in 21 states ahead of the 2016 general election, DHS says, and separately launched a social media blitz<\/a> aimed at inflaming social tensions and sowing confusion.
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The CIA director and two other top U.S. intelligence officials told the Senate Tuesday they\u2019ve seen indications Russian agents are preparing a new round of election subterfuge. The secretary of state<\/a> has said the same. Texas will hold the first primary of 2018 on March 6; Illinois follows two weeks later.
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That makes local election officials \u201cthe front lines of the information age,\u201d said Eric Rosenbach, co-director of Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center and a former Defense Department chief of staff in the Obama administration. \u201cAfter what the Russians did, every other bad guy is going to come after our democracy now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since last July, a bipartisan team at Harvard \u2014 including former U.S. Marine and Army cyberwarriors, national security eggheads and Google engineers \u2014 has been trying to shore up that local line. The group, which calls itself the Defending Digital Democracy initiative, has just drafted its latest protect-the-vote election \u201cplaybooks\u201d<\/a> intended to prepare state and local officials for the worst.
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\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of whether somebody is going to try to breach the system,\u201d said Robby Mook, manager of the 2016 Clinton campaign, which was stung by multiple email thefts later traced to Russian agents<\/a> . \u201cThe question is: \u2018How resilient are we and what are we doing to protect ourselves?\u2019\u201d
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Mook helps run the effort with Matt Rhoades, who managed Mitt Romney\u2019s 2012 presidential run. Over six months, the authors visited 34 state and county offices and ran simulations to help local officials improve their \u201cthreat awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team\u2019s findings<\/a> highlight resource-strapped election systems that can\u2019t secure their own operations, vulnerable voting-equipment vendors and the threat posed by insiders and people looking for political advantage.
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There\u2019s no evidence that any hack in the November 2016 election affected election results. But there are also cases \u2014 such as in Georgia, where a key election-staging server was exposed on the open internet for months<\/a> then wiped clean without a forensic exam \u2014 that haven\u2019t been independently investigated.
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And federal delays are legion. In the last election, DHS took nearly a year<\/a>to inform the affected states of hacking attempts, blaming it in part on a lack of security clearances. But it hasn\u2019t made up enough lost ground to satisfy critics on Capitol Hill.
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In Illinois, for instance, the executive director of the state elections board submitted his application in August and has yet to receive his clearance, according to agency spokesman Matt Dietrich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a stopgap, DHS is providing one-day \u201cread-ins\u201d on secret information this week in Washington to about 100 senior state officials \u2014 secretaries of state and elections directors \u2014 gathered there for a meeting. \u201cThat\u2019s a way to deal with the fact that the process hasn\u2019t worked as quickly as we\u2019d hoped,\u201d Bob Kolasky, deputy assistant secretary at DHS for infrastructure protection, said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harvard team recommends a variety of election safeguards, such as background checks for everyone with access to sensitive election systems, universal use of voting machines that produce a paper trail, and routine, rigorous audits of election results \u2014 currently standard only in Colorado and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team also urges local officials to quickly acknowledge any election threats<\/a> and immediately explain to the public<\/a> what they are doing about them \u2014 two things that don\u2019t come naturally to them.
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Elections officials \u201cmade us all a little nervous\u201d in their handling of disinformation scenarios during tabletop exercises \u2014 such as bogus online reports of two-mile-long lines certain polling stations, said Rosenbach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey do not want to talk to the press, much less communicate at all,\u201d he said. A hack is just one element of a modern election attack \u2014 \u201cthe more potent part is often info ops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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