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US Officials Confident in Election Security as Voters Head to Polls

Jeff Seldin

   WASHINGTON - Officials overseeing U.S. election security are expressing
   confidence as voters across the country head to the polls to cast
   ballots for president and a multitude of state and local races.
   Millions of Americans were expected to vote in person Tuesday, the last
   day for citizens to cast a ballot, in addition to the more than 100
   million, who voted by mail or at early voting centers.
   And despite indications that U.S. adversaries will try to disrupt the
   election process, early evidence suggests any such attempts have failed
   to make an impact.
   "We have no indications that a foreign adversary has succeeded in
   compromising or affecting the actual votes cast in this election,"
   acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said at a briefing just
   hours after the first polling sites opened their doors.
   "Our election infrastructure is resilient," he said. "But we do remain
   on high alert."
   U.S. officials have already acknowledged at least two attempts to
   penetrate systems seen as critical to elections in recent weeks, one by
   Iran and one by Russia.
   In both cases, hackers were able to steal information related to voter
   registration databases, with Iranian hackers managing to infiltrate one
   state's database and use that information as part of a disinformation
   campaign.

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