(Radio Iowa) - Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate convened a gathering of state and federal officials at the Iowa National Guard's headquarters Wednesday to tout security measures surrounding the General Election.
Iowa's Public Safety Commissioner says his agency will be a hub for collecting information from three-thousand law enforcement and intelligence agency partners about both physical and digital threats. Cyber security staff from state government and the Iowa National Guard are monitoring election offices in Iowa 24 hours a day now.
A regional cybersecurity officials from the U-S Department of Homeland Security says Iowa has key election safeguards, like testing of all election equipment before it's used to count paper ballots and, after the election, results in randomly-selected precincts are audited for accuracy.