39 States. Elections Hacked. How Land of Lincoln is Reacting to Protect Midterm Elections.

State: Illinois

Illinois’ Solutions to prevent election hacking in the 2018 mid term elections:

• Sending election officials a letter with these instructions:
  • scrub voting systems of potential malware
  • fill any kind of security gaps
  • continue to be vigilant 

 

Politico | LAND OF LINCOLN PREPS FOR 2018

WGN | Illinois among 8 states investigating Russian hacking of its elections

Chicago Tribune | From the community: Sen. Michael E. Hastings works to protect Illinois election data from foreign cyber threats