Cybersecurity & the 2024 US Elections

This commentary outlines the primary cyber threats to local U.S. election infrastructure in 2024—voting machine tampering, DDoS attacks, ransomware targeting municipalities, and website/email compromises or defacements—while stressing that existing federal, state, and local mitigations, along with agency coordination, make significant disruption to voting or vote counts unlikely; it recommends continued vigilance and standard defenses (physical security, MFA, DDoS protection, and incident response planning).