Government agency working to ensure election security

DELMARVA – With the 2024 presidential race heating up, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, is tasked with ensuring the security of this monumental election.

CISA director, Jen Easterly, said elections officials have been working around the clock, preparing for any type of scenario that could hit polling places.

“Election officials have been preparing for this for years. They have been training and exercising and working through a full range of disruption scenarios, so that they have contingency plans in place to deal with disruptions,” Easterly said.

But while security is the top priority, confidence in the election process is just as important.
Easterly said the media plays a significant role in ensuring voters get factual news, and with influence from adversaries like China and Russia, now more than ever it’s important that the public knows their vote will count.

“It’s been made clear that their intent on interfering in our presidential elections is for their own interests,” Easterly said. “We want to make sure that Americans do have confidence in the security and integrity when they go to the ballots, that they have confidence that those votes will be counted as cast.”