Experts: What states can do to secure their elections

 

February 14, 2018



Newly released "playbooks" from a bipartisan team at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government aims to help state and local elections officials protect against hacking and disinformation.

Here are the group's key findings and recommendations.

KEY FINDINGS

— Elections officials generally lack the resources to secure their operations, especially in smaller counties. Many can't even afford such vital security measures as two-factor authentication, which helps protect networks by requiring users to verify their identity twice, usually with codes texted to their phones, when logging in.

— Voting equip...



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