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1 Christopher R. Deluzio, et al., Defending Elections: Federal Funding Needs for State Election Security 1 (2019)

handle is hein.brennan/defelf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Defending Elections Federal Funding Needs for State Election Security Christopher R. Deluzio, Policy Director, University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security Liz Howard, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice Paul Rosenzweig, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute David Salvo, Deputy Director, Alliance for Securing Democracy Rachael Dean Wilson, Head of External Affairs, Alliance for Securing Democracy PUBLISHED JULY 18,2019 Introduction State and local election officials are on the front lines of a cyberwar with sophisticated nation-state rivals and other malevolent actors. As Robert Brehm, co-execu- tive director of the New York State Board of Elections, recently put it, It is not reasonable to expect each of these state and local election offices to independently defend against hostile nation-state actors.1 State and local election systems have already been breached. In 2016 Russian hackers penetrated computer networks in two counties in the swing state of Florida, using information they had gleaned from a software vendor.2 That same software vendor may have opened a gap for hackers to alter the voter rolls in North Carolina, another swing state, on the eve of the election.3 Episodes like these undermine faith in our democratic system, and steps must be taken to prevent them from occur- ring again. Critically, in 2018 Congress provided $380 million in Help America Vote Act (HAVA) grant funds to help states bolster their election security. Grant recipient states had to submit a grant narrative-a list of specific election security projects (and estimated costs) that the state planned to fund with grant money-and provide a 5 percent state match within two years. Based on infor- mation that the states submitted to the Elections Assis- tance Commission (EAC) as part of the grant process, recipients are using the vast majority of this money to strengthen election cybersecurity, purchase new voting equipment, and improve postelection audits - all press- ing needs around which there is broad bipartisan consen- sus.4 The EAC has estimated that 85 percent of the money Congress has provided will be spent ahead of the 2020 election.5 Unfortunately, given the myriad security challenges Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

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