Top state voting official blasts Homeland Security for not emphasizing hacking threat

The incoming president to a national group of state voting officials said the Department of Homeland Security failed to properly communicate the hacking threats to state voting system during the 2016 election.

Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson, incoming president to the bipartisan National Association of Secretaries of State, told the Senate Intelligence Committee pointed to DHS actions in the 2016 elections, especially in light of a leaked document that said dozens of local election systems were targeted or “scanned” by Russian cyberattacks.