State officials to Congress: Send more money for election-security efforts

LAS VEGAS. As Congress debates whether state and local governments need more funding for election security, the answer was a no-brainer for the election officials gathered here for Def Con, who cited intense resource needs even as they take aggressive and innovative approaches to securing the vote.

“Many of our jurisdictions will never have a chief information security officer,” Justin Burns, CISO for the Washington State Secretary of State, said in a panel discussion Sunday. “We have to play that...