The department worked hard to win over election officials who were uneasy about working with the federal government, Jeanette Manfra said at the South by Southwest Conference.

The city's deployed military and overseas voters will be offered the ability to use Voatz, the mobile-voting app that was tested in 2018 by West Virginia.

The bill would allow the secretary of state's office to hire a chief information security officer, and fund the creation of a unit of civilian cybersecurity professionals to respond to attacks on state or local government.

Delaware CIO James Collins said state IT chiefs have the experience securing critical government systems that's now required of state election officials.

But there are disagreements over how many strings should be attached if the federal government offers states more money.

In a new report, the body urges the state to replace its touchscreen-based machines with those producing paper ballots as soon as possible.

The month-long shutdown is affecting how much information about cyberthreats the federal government can pass on to states, a former DHS leader says.

The new position would be responsible for monitoring threats against the state's voter registration database and coordinating with county-level officials.

The new machines would make paper receipts, but advocates of hand-marked ballots say they don't go far enough to secure the state's elections.