A change in policy made by the Department of Homeland Security in 2017 helped keep Russia from interfering in the 2020 presidential election, The Daily Signal reports.
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson in 2017 ensured that the country’s election infrastructure is considered critical infrastructure that is therefore protected by the department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That agency worked hand-in-hand with state and local election officials in 2020 to make sure that no foreign actors could interfere.
''This coordination is the most unheralded intergovernmental success story,'' Matthew Weil, director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project, told Politico. ''Voters have had their confidence shaken in the elections process this year, but it is more secure and professional than at any point in our history.''
A senior official in the agency told reporters in an Election Day briefing: ''We’re not out of the woods yet. The attack surface, particularly for disinformation and other foreign interference efforts, extends well into the next month or two. So there is no spiking the football here. We are acutely focused on the mission at hand.''
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