Well, let me go back a little further than that. In January of 2017, just a few weeks after I took office, Elections were declared critical infrastructure by the Department of Homeland Security in January of 2017. and through 2020, we were really looking at security, we were looking at cybersecurity, we were looking at a lot of things that elections administrators had never really looked at before. (06:41–06:54)
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Asserts that elections were designated as critical infrastructure by DHS in January 2017.
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