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IT security: Cyber experts were blocked in their push to patch voting systems in 2016

Cyber experts were blocked in their push to patch voting systems in 2016

Cyber experts were blocked in their push to patch voting systems in 2016

Cybersecurity experts on a federally-supervised team, fearing a Russian attack, scrambled last summer to draft guidelines for state and local election officials to patch the most obvious vulnerabilities in the nation’s voting systems. Their recommendations were blocked, and still aren’t out.

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