Secretary of State Jim Condos says his office is actively taking steps to protect the state’s election system from being manipulated by foreign or domestic computer hackers, but says there’s no evidence so far to indicate that Vermont’s voting system was breached. Following reports of Russian efforts to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security has reached out to individual states to help strengthen the security of their voting systems. Condos says this issue has become an ongoing and critically important concern for his office.
“We take the security of our elections process very seriously,” says Condos. “We want to maintain the utmost integrity in our system.”
Condos says his staff is constantly on the lookout for suspicious activities. He says the Department of Homeland Security periodically runs tests on Vermont’s system to look for weaknesses because DHS believes many state systems are being targeted by hackers.
Full Article: State And Local Officials On High Alert For Breaches In Vermont’s Election System | Vermont Public Radio.