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The authors lay out the security framework and challenges that face election administration today, specifically focusing on cybersecurity and cyber threats. The chapter presents the current array of actors and initiatives involved addressing these threats and discusses cybersecurity challenges faced by local jurisdictions during the 2016 election. The authors then conclude the chapter with a discussion of ways these threats are being addressed.
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To explicate some of the complexity of identifying the cyber threat, in The State and Local Election Cybersecurity Playbook, the Belfer Center puts denial of service attacks in both cyber operations and information operations depending on if the goal was to prevent user access or to undermined trust in the electoral systems or process (Mook et al. 2018).
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52 U.S.C. §§ 20901–21145.
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This includes American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. See: https://www.eac.gov/assets/1/6/FY2018HAVAGrantsExpenditureReport.pdf.
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570 U.S. 623, 133 S. Ct. 2612; 186 L. Ed. 2d 651.
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Choate, J., Smith, R. (2020). Election Cybersecurity. In: Brown, M., Hale, K., King, B. (eds) The Future of Election Administration. Elections, Voting, Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14947-5_16
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