{"id":7930,"date":"2026-07-31T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:05:17","slug":"trump-admin-tries-to-rebuild-election-security-infrastructure-it-gutted-as-midterms-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7930","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n            After dismantling the federal system designed to protect US elections, the Trump administration now says it has a plan to rebuild it \u2014 less than 100 days before Election Day and just weeks before ballots begin going out in the mail.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7922\">How to explain the complex emotional backlash that started soccer\u2019s global war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            A year after forcing out many of its most experienced election-security specialists, a key federal cyber agency is now reassigning remaining staff into new roles.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The agency says the new liaisons are expected to \u201cbuild trusted relationships\u201d with state and local elected officials, according to an internal summary of the administration\u2019s plans obtained by CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The memo, which US officials emailed Capitol Hill staff earlier this month, reveals more details than the Trump administration has publicly provided about how it intends to reconstitute its election-security operation amid demands from President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for a sweeping overhaul.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The DHS agency that oversees this work \u2014  the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) \u2014 says it will use a security mechanism it employed during the World Cup to protect the midterm elections. It also promises a public plan in 30 days that will \u201clay out cyber and physical security resources\u201d for states, according to the July 17 email.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But election officials and non-partisan experts warn it\u2019s too deep into the election cycle for any major changes to their security protocols, and they are skeptical that the agency\u2019s hollowed-out workforce can deliver even the baseline support to states before the midterms.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a closed-door briefing this month, a CISA official recently assigned to election security told congressional staff that the agency has been so depleted of staff that it wouldn\u2019t be able to provide its normal election-security assistance ahead of the midterms, according to a US official.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Met with months of mostly radio silence from CISA, states have moved on, cobbling together new security measures to fill gaps created when the Trump administration gutted the election-related functions of the agency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            State and local officials have stretched their tight budgets to contract with private cybersecurity vendors or hire additional IT staff to do that work in-house. They\u2019re setting up the sort of table-top exercises that CISA previously hosted to game-out how they would respond to security emergencies. And they\u2019ve had to retool the information-sharing processes among states that served as an early warning system for any attempts to disrupt election systems, with state and local governments paying for a platform that the federal government once offered for free.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThis was all supported by federal agencies,\u201d Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas told CNN. \u201cNow we\u2019ve got to figure out how we can share that \u2014 with some duct tape and, you know, maybe a bungee cord or two.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            State and local election officials are nonetheless confident they\u2019ve taken the steps needed to plug the holes and secure election infrastructure for the 2026 midterms. But they acknowledge that they haven\u2019t been able to replicate the federal government\u2019s ability to coordinate intelligence gathering and analysis across multiple federal agencies for a nationwide view of emerging threats.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The advantage of that cross-government approach was evident when the first Trump administration identified attempts by Iranian actors to influence the 2020 elections. Working with intelligence agencies, CISA played a critical role in presenting that information to election officials, using language they could act upon, according to various sources in the election community. Information that election officials shared with CISA and its counterparts at the FBI helped the federal government understand what the Iranians were up to.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20250121-us-election hacking.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-7927\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/24aab92d2afc23e9c8b4f09836539332.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier\/CNN\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Secret US cyber operations shielded 2024 election from foreign trolls, but now the Trump admin has gutted protections<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>14  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            CISA\u2019s then-director Chris Krebs stood next to then-director of National Intelligence John Ratfcliffe to announce the influence campaign \u2014 an episode Mullin omitted when he and Trump claimed a government cover-up of the Iranian efforts.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks to reporters in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Friday, July 17, 2026, in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-7928\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/059e259e4965ced7337b960992a28662.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/059e259e4965ced7337b960992a28662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/059e259e4965ced7337b960992a28662-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks to reporters in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Friday, July 17, 2026, in Washington, DC.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In a statement to CNN, CISA acting Director Nick Andersen said the coming election security plan \u201cwill further offer to states the cyber resources they need, including information about available no-cost voluntary services such as the sharing of threat information, technical expertise, vulnerability scanning, and other risk mitigation support.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, a Democrat, told CNN it was \u201ctoo late\u201d in the election-preparation season for such a plan from the federal government \u2014 a point echoed by others who work in election security.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe are well until the election cycle. It is not simply about Election Day. Election Day is not when the Russians started in 2016. It is not when the Iranians started in 2020,\u201d said Geoff Hale, a former election security official at CISA who is now a visiting fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. \u201cPeople should be realizing we have a gap of information of 14 to 18 months.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Scattershot support\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            For nearly a decade \u2014 after a decision in 2017 by the outgoing Obama administration to designate elections a subsection of the nation\u2019s critical infrastructure \u2014 CISA forged relationships with election officials through 10 regional offices, which were eventually staffed with election advisers who could help direct resources to voting officials.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Those resources included table-top exercises, stress-testing election systems\u2019 cyber defenses and intelligence advisories laying out potential threats. Physical security of elections became a focus after the 2020 election made harassment and threats to election officials a more prominent issue. At the request of local offices, CISA officials would conduct assessments of the physical security around polling locations or other election sites.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7914\">GOP Senate nominee ends press conference after questions on ties to White nationalist influencer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            But CISA\u2019s presence shrunk drastically after Trump returned to the White House \u2014 more fixated than ever that a deep state was rigging elections against him \u2014  and his administration made dramatic cuts to the agency. Those regional election specialists were forced out, as were other CISA employees who focused on elections, including Hale, and much of the election-related work of the CISA experts who remained was put on hold.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Despite the gutting of personnel and operations, CISA\u2019s services to election officials haven\u2019t ceased entirely, according to people who work with election officials who described the support as scattershot at best. Election officials in a handful of states have been able to secure occasional assistance\u2014 sometimes, by not mentioning in their request for a security assessment that it was for an election-specific function. CISA\u2019s larger mission of helping state and local governments with security issues lives on.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still, in large swaths of the country, election officials have not obtained any election-specific support from CISA this voting cycle.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Instead, election officials have grown to rely on a \u201cragtag team of advisors and coordinators that we\u2019ve built among those of us who were doing this work previously,\u201d said Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            For instance, under prior administrations, the federal government paid for an information-shared portal used by election officials across the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The portal, the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, is still operating, but now under a paid subscription model, creating a patchwork of membership across 44 states. In some states, the state elections offices are paying for the local election administrators to have access to the platform, while in other states, local offices are buying their own memberships.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        \u2018Happy it\u2019s now and not a few years ago\u2019\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The silver lining for the election community is that they had nearly a decade of experience working with CISA\u2019s security experts before Trump took a wrecking ball to the agency.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cMy main take on the CISA pullback is I am happy it\u2019s now and not a few years ago,\u201d said a person who works with election officials and asked for anonymity to not strain their working relationship with the administration.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            With that know-how, state officials stressed their ability to adapt to the change in landscape, with some GOP election administrators arguing the federal retreat is not the crisis it is sometimes made out to be.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe took the resources and the knowledge that was being shared by the various federal partnerships and tried to make sure we were able to reproduce it going down the road,\u201d said Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican. \u201cWhen CISA was teaching us how to do tabletop exercises, well, we quickly wanted to learn how not only to do them, but how to teach them to others.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Headquarters in Arlington, VA. to thank employees for their work during the midterms.\" class=\"wp-image-7929\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a2e202bbe908db53f14f674ad9d841c8.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a2e202bbe908db53f14f674ad9d841c8.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a2e202bbe908db53f14f674ad9d841c8-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Headquarters in Arlington, VA. to thank employees for their work during the midterms.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Sydney Phoenix\/US Department of Homeland Security<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            West Virginia Secretary Kris Warner, a Republican told CNN his \u201cace in the hole\u201d was his office\u2019s hiring of a former CISA official as its chief information officer, while stressing that his state was never reliant on the federal government for election administration, particularly with the partnerships he has built with other states.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe don\u2019t need the feds to be able to pick up a cell phone and call [Kentucky Secretary of State] Michael Adams or [Missouri Secretary of State] Denny Hoskins or any of the other secretaries of state that we need to stay in contact with,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still, even with their success in recreating CISA\u2019s support for themselves, the financial cost of doing so remains an ongoing burden for election officials.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThis is on the back of the Nevada taxpayers, when it\u2019s Nevada taxpayers who are already paying into the federal government to do this job. The federal government should take on this responsibility, and they\u2019re not,\u201d Aguilar said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The ouster of CISA\u2019s election specialists has created a diaspora of those experts landing in election cybersecurity support roles at large tech companies or smaller non-profits that have popped up \u2014 many of them offering their services cost-free to election officials.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But among the two-dozen states that have banned private funding for elections \u2014 after controversial donations to elections offices in 2020, pejoratively known as ZuckBucks, from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s foundation \u2014 at least some of those state laws block states from receiving such services gratis from private organizations.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cIt\u2019s just gone crazy,\u201d Pate said, of the increase in cybersecurity costs for elections offices. \u201cWe\u2019re going have to really get serious about that consistent funding stream \u2014 whether that\u2019s going to be the states having to pony it up, or the federal government\u2019s going to stay committed to it.\u201d\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=7906\">Trump says agreement has been reached for \u2018complete disarmament\u2019 of Hamas; Hamas has yet to respond<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dismantling the federal system designed to protect US elections, the Trump administration now says it has a plan to rebuild it \u2014 less than 100 days before Election Day and just weeks before ballots begin going out In the mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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