Federal Times: Citing increasingly sophisticated bad actors in cyberspace and an election infrastructure that's "vital to our national interests," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is designating U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, a move that provides more federal help for state and local governments to keep their election systems safe from tampering.
"Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law," Johnson said in a Jan. 6 statement. "Particularly in these times, this designation is simply the right and obvious thing to do."
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