Senior election officials discuss cybersecurity preparations for 2020; CSIS releases security scorecard

Senior federal, state and local election officials, along with industry representatives, are mulling ways to apply lessons from the upcoming midterms to the 2020 elections, while advocating for specific tools such as a maturity model for election systems and ways to respond to evolving technology.

Election Assistance Commission Chairman Thomas Hicks said Tuesday at the Symantec Government Symposium in Washington, DC that “we need to look at what happens in 2018,” in terms of election security, and we “can make...