Local elections offices in Florida received funds on July 8 to be used for 2020 election security improvements, according to a news report. 

The Obama administration has designated the country’s election infrastructure as ‘critical,’ to add federal protections to voting systems.

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.