Richard McHattie, the new chief information officer of Maricopa County, Arizona, started his career putting RFID chips in pets.

On the Priorities podcast, Maricopa County, Ariz. CIO Richard McHattie says he’s looking to use technology to create “amazing outcomes.”

The former chief technology and innovation officer at the Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court has been made the county's CIO.

Websites operated by the Mississippi secretary of state were offline for part of Election Day, though the outage did not affect voting.

County officials issued a lengthy rebuttal to the partisan review of 2.1 million ballots demanded by supporters of former President Trump.

"Almost real-time" insights to budgeting data during the COVID-19 pandemic helped the city avoid cutting services or instating furloughs, officials said.

The county spent $6.5 million in 2019 on voting equipment, which will now be replaced over worries the state Senate's partisan ballot review compromised election security.

An election law expert said the "audit" of more than 2.1 million ballots by an unqualified firm could force the county to buy entirely new voting technology.

Lester Godsey, CISO for the nation's fourth-largest county, told an RSA Conference panel that government cybersecurity teams need to make countering disinformation a core service.