U.S. Election Hacking
Legislative Background on H.R. 2722, the SAFE Act
Historically, the United States has left the regulation of election security primarily to individual States. Congress frst enacted legislation to fund election security in 2002, with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). HAVA mandated that States upgrade their election procedures and created the U.S. Election Assistance Commission as a national resource for information regarding election administration. Today, various Federal agencies — including the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — are responsible for election security. DHS designated elections as “a critical infrastructure sector” in January 2017, meaning that elections are “considered so vital to the United…
