Florida has a history of presidential votes so close the results cannot be determined on election night.
Florida’s March 17 presidential primary will be a referendum on state and county elections officials’ efforts to build a wall to stop hacking attempts that are constantly bombarding the system.
The far-reaching confidentiality pacts, including a nondisclosure agreement that public records experts call bizarre and unenforceable, threaten to make a casualty out of transparency in the Sunshine State. "If there is a complete lack of confidence in the integrity of the voting system, it will have a chilling effect," Wilcox said. "If people become so cynical that the election is predetermined or hacked by foreign countries ... then people may not vote." showed only 40 percent of Americans trust the election system, up from 30 percent in 2016.
“I find Florida to be probably the most secretive state as far as not telling people where these hacks occurred. It only fuels the symptoms of suspicion,” said William Theobald, who writes about election security at the national level for The Fulcrum, an online news organization funded by nonprofits including the Hewlett Foundation.
To fight those breaches, DeSantis in June reauthorized $2.3 million left over from a $15.1 million federal election security grant that Congress had approved the year before. That money was in addition to $2.8 million approved by the Legislature last session for election security. Lee created the Joint Elections Security Initiative, or JESI, so the 67 elections supervisors could share cybersecurity information and receive training and support from the state’s “cyber navigators.” But to participate, they had to sign a memorandum of understanding and a “Cyber Security Non-Disclosure Agreement” that said they wouldn’t divulge any of the vulnerabilities they had found or the defense measures they took to beef up their cybersecurity.
This copy won't show up in the digital presentation or print package. It's a placeholder for the longform template. Please don't delete it or add H2 headers above this point. --Rachael Thomas, Florida DOT Digital Producer [email protected] The NDA outlines a list of election-related records, documents, data and other material that might be deemed confidential under state and federal statutes, including:
In Florida, Russian cyber actors connected to the G.R.U., the Russian military's foreign intelligence service, sent a spear-phishing email to 120 email accounts containing Trojan horses. One of them was spotted by Volusia County Elections Supervisor Lisa Lewis, who sent out warnings to voters not to open the email.
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