The Hamilton County Election Commission in Tennessee plans to utilize money from the Federal Cares Act to focus on physical security in time for the November election.
Moscow-based business newspaper Kommersant reported this week that the voter details for millions of Americans is being offered for sale on a Russian hacking site.
Requests for 2,500 absentee ballots, many originating from a few IP addresses overseas, caught the attention of fraud-detection software and election officials as the first cyberattack on an electronic election process.
Concerns about voter disenfranchisement and the logistics of providing adequate numbers of photo IDs before the November 6 election were the top reasons Judge Simpson cited for blocking the law.
