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Praetz said that in the past, his job was ensuring the right people came together at the right time. No longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe 2016 election showed irrefutably that sophisticated attacks are to be expected and that we must also be cybersecurity managers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 21 states were targeted by hackers during the 2016 presidential elections, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Russia is suspected of being behind the attacks. The 2018 mid-term elections are a potential target for Russian influence operations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/documents\/Newsroom\/Testimonies\/2018-ATA---Unclassified-SSCI.pdf\">according<\/a> to Daniel Coats, the Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHack us once shame on them, hack us twice, shame on us if we don\u2019t do anything about it,\u201d said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local election officials testified that voter registration systems are much more vulnerable to hacking than the election infrastructure itself, such as ballot boxes. Praetz explained it was because of a \u201cbroad threat surface area\u201d on the registration systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the hearing, Democratic senators grilled Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft over his claim that \u201cvoter fraud is an exponentially greater threat than hacking of election equipment.\u201d Ashcroft raised the case of two voters casting ballots illegally in 2010 which may have swayed the result of a close statewide election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashcroft later acknowledged that his state receives an average of 10,000 \u201cscans\u201d per day, a reminder of the constant vigilance required to protect the voting systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These numbers troubled lawmakers. In 2016, hackers had the capacity to change voter systems just one digit to make each address different and \u201cmake a chaotic situation at the poling place,\u201d said Sen. 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