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Here's how states plan to spend the federal money they're getting for election security

StateScoop: More than one-third of the $380 million the federal Election Assistance Commission is distributing to states this year will go toward bolstering the cybersecurity of voting systems, the commission said Tuesday when it released spending plans from 52 of 55 states and territories.

The plans come less than three months before the first nationwide elections since U.S. intelligence agencies revealed that Russian hackers attempted to penetrate the networks of election authorities in at least 21 states during the 2016 presidential cycle. They also come a week after the Department of Homeland Security convened a three-day election-security drill for officials from 44 states and the District of Columbia.

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