Four pages of the Mueller report lie on a witness table in the House Intelligence Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill on April 18. In last fall’s midterm elections, “there were no cyber incidents that affected voters’ ability to vote or have votes counted as cast,” said Matt Masterson, Department of Homeland Security senior adviser on election security. But that feature also makes for a big challenge, said Norden, the NYU election security expert. And the funding, election security experts said, should be recurring — not a one-time grant. Currently there is no election security bill with strong bipartisan support in Congress, he said.

Source: Washington Post April 20, 2019 16:27 UTC