Kathy Boockvar recently spoke with StateScoop on the threats to election security caused by the current Administration’s cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). Boockvar warned that our foreign and domestic adversaries are continually looking to attack American election systems and that reducing election officials’ ability to defend our systems is the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
“Election security is a race without a finish line, and our adversaries are not sitting around eating bon bons,” Boockvar said. “Our adversaries — both foreign adversaries like Russia, China and Iran, and also domestic terrorists — are continually inventing and executing new and different ways to try to infiltrate our systems.”
Boockvar’s concerns were echoed by current and former government officials and experts in the field of national and election security. To date, the Trump administration has eliminated key funding and reduced other critical federal agency support that have over the last 8 years provided key defensive services, tools, and information sharing for election officials at every level across the country.
Boockvar noted that the federal government has made it harder for election officials to do their jobs, and that we should be increasing funding to election officials, not cutting it. “Not only do [local election officials] not know if any additional dollars will be coming through the door, they don’t know if everything they already have is just going to be snatched from under them any given week,” Boockvar said. “And Americans deserve better.”
Read the full article here: https://statescoop.com/eiisac-msisac-center-internet-security-cisa-cuts-2025/