Legislation that would order election officials to study the feasibility of mobile voting statewide has already passed the state House, and is making its way through the Utah Senate.

Researchers claimed they found flaws that allowed them to alter ballots or compromise voters' anonymity, but Voatz said their findings were based on an outdated version of the app.

The company, Voatz, said Sen. Ron Wyden's letter asking his home state to reconsider the use of its mobile-voting app "increases the fear of technology."

Jeff Franklin, who stepped down last week as Iowa's CISO, will lead cybersecurity efforts for the office of Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate.

As a malfunctioning app delayed results of Iowa's presidential caucuses, state and local election officials reminded people that they were not involved.

A new guidebook offers local election officials step-by-step drills of what to do and who to call in the event of an actual cyberattack.

StateScoop and NASCIO look ahead to the issues expected to affect CIOs most in 2020, from election security to robotic process automation.

Kyle Ardoin told his fellow secretaries of state that the vendors many local governments use for IT services don't offer security strong enough for elections.

State election officials are implementing all sorts of cybersecurity measures. Protecting voter registration databases needs to be the top priority, says Samuel Visner of the MITRE Corporation.