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The nonprofit advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology on Friday announced a new initiative to provide local elections administrators with additional support as they attempt to defend their infrastructure from cyberattacks. The work is to be led by Geoff Hale, a former election-security associate director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. According to the group’s press materials, the new project aims to “strengthen mechanisms that provide timely, actionable research and analysis to support the cybersecurity and resilience of vital election processes.” Colin Wood, StateScoop.
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University partnership works to make vote-by-mail more efficient
Snohomish County, Washington Elections partners with UW students
By M. Mindy Moretti
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Elections officials have long found that partnerships with local colleges and universities can solve a variety of challenges that they face.
One of those recent, successful partnerships was between the Snohomish County, Washington Elections and the University of Washington Industrial and Systems Engineering program.
The Elections Division of the Auditor’s Office was invited by the county IT department to partner with them in hosting a UW College of Engineering capstone project team. While this was the county’s first election-related project, past capstone project teams have identified improvements to county mail room functions, software deployment, and other challenges.
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