{"id":199159,"date":"2026-03-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/the-cyber-experts-helping-local-officials-prepare-for-2026-2028-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:05:12","slug":"the-cyber-experts-helping-local-officials-prepare-for-2026-2028-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/the-cyber-experts-helping-local-officials-prepare-for-2026-2028-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The cyber experts helping local officials prepare for 2026, 2028 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/cdt-local-government-elections-cybersecurity\/\">The cyber experts helping local officials prepare for 2026, 2028 elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/cdt-local-government-elections-cybersecurity\/\">https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/cdt-local-government-elections-cybersecurity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"statescoop.com\">statescoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmarter people than I always describe it as: cyber is a team sport, and you don\u2019t want it to be a pick-up game,\u201d Geoff Hale, visiting fellow for election security at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said in a recent interview for the Priorities Podcast. \u201cYou want to know who you\u2019re passing to, you want to know who you\u2019re engaging with and who your defense is. Nobody\u2019s going to be an expert across the board on everything.\u201d Hale said that state and local elections officials have vastly improved their cybersecurity game over the past decade, but that there are still gaps, particularly during the current presidential administration, which has scaled back support for elections. Hale said a new initiative at CDT, which he\u2019s leading, will help fill those gaps.<\/p>\n<p>Top stories this week:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The State of Representatives in Idaho has approved legislation that would prohibit the state from procuring or even using large language models that promote diversity, equity or inclusion. Borrowing language from an executive order the president issued last year, the bill aims to ensure that all LLMs used by the state are \u201ctruth-seeking\u201d and possess \u201cideological neutrality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California Chief Information Officer Liana Bailey-Crimmins last week announced she\u2019s retiring from state service, after nearly four decades in government and several years heading IT in the Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina\u2019s CIO, Teena Piccione, has also announced she\u2019s stepping down, but to return to the private sector. She called her less than two years heading IT in North Carolina a \u201cprofound honor.<\/p>\n<p>New episodes of StateScoop\u2019s Priorities Podcast are posted each Wednesday. For more of the latest news and trends across the state and local government technology community, subscribe to the Priorities Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,Soundcloud or Spotify.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cyber experts helping local officials prepare for 2026, 2028 elections https:\/\/statescoop.com\/radio\/cdt-local-government-elections-cybersecurity\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/Untitled-design-45.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-199159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199161,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199159\/revisions\/199161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}