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Public commenters ask Virginia elections board to review HAVA complaint handling and cybersecurity safeguards
Summary
At its March meeting the State Board of Elections heard public comments urging review of how the Department of Elections handles HAVA complaints and calling for a study of recent federal cybersecurity changes and staff cuts at CISA.
At the March meeting of the Commonwealth of Virginia State Board of Elections, public commenters urged the board to review how the Department of Elections handles complaints under the Help America Vote Act and to study recent changes in federal cybersecurity arrangements that they said could leave state voting systems exposed.
Jim Buttholff, a resident of Leesburg, told the board he and others are concerned that Department of Elections staff have been “categorizing erroneously” some HAVA complaints as outside the scope of federal law and then downgrading them from formal to informal…
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