A poll worker helps a person cast their ballot at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church on December 2, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Voters head to the polls to fill the house seat left vacant after the resignation of Republican Mark Green. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
Ballots arrive at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operation Center on election night on November 5, 2024 in Fairburn, Georgia. The FBI carried out a raid on the Fulton County election offices (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)
State election officials pressed White House officials for their legal rationale and expressed concern about the impact of similar raids tied to the 2026 elections.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrives for a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2025. Noem testified before the Homeland Security Subcommittee about her department’s FY 2026 budget request. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The legislation also includes mandates on election security funding and CISA staff levels, as well as an extension of a state and local cyber grant program.
DEK: In a scathing opinion, Judge David Carter called the federal government’s demands for unredacted voter data “unprecedented and illegal.” (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 5: Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a Federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by XNY/Star Max/GC Images)
After the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, fake AI-driven media quickly flooded the internet, while Trump allies revived debunked theories of rigged voting machines.
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 19: Attorney General Pam Bondi, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) and FBI Director Kash Patel (R), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Department of Justice is suing Fulton County, Georgia and its election clerk over the county’s refusal to hand over voter records, part of a larger nationwide project to collect as much election and voter information as possible from state and local governments ahead of the 2026 and 2028 elections. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is running for governor next year, has long maintained that the state’s 2020 and 2024 election results were secure, fair…
SEDALIA, CO – JUNE 28: Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. Peters, one of many election deniers Trump has sought to shield from legal consequences, is serving a nine-year state prison sentence that can’t be nullified by a presidential pardon. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
Peters, one of many election deniers Trump has sought to shield from legal consequences, is serving a nine-year state prison sentence that can’t be nullified by a…
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., talks to reporters about Democrats being excluded from briefings the Trump Administration gave to Republicans about military strikes on alleged drug boats at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 30, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By furloughing employees, halting procurement, and delaying guidance, agencies are operating with skeleton crews and depleted morale. For nation-state operators, this expanding attack surface and declining oversight…