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Election security has emerged as a key issue in the United
States after officials found Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S.
election with a campaign of hacking and propaganda intended to
hurt Hilary Clinton's chances of winning against Donald Trump.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
plans to set up an "Elections Day Operations Center" with public
and private sector partners across the country to monitor the
midterms, it said in a statement on Monday.
"In recent years, election officials have had to contend with
increasing disinformation from foreign adversaries, which can
cause confusion about election infrastructure and undermine
voters' faith in the process," Kim Wyman, CISA's senior election
security advisor, said in a statement last week.
"Now, when something goes wrong - and with 8,800 election
jurisdictions across the country, something will go wrong
somewhere - the innocuous can be made to look nefarious."
(Reporting by Zeba Siddiqui in San Francisco; Editing by Tom
Hogue)
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