Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says election security is becoming more critical for Utah, because they've seen a dramatic uptick in the number of attempts to hack the state's systems over the last few weeks, increasing to an incredible one billion attempts per day.
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Cox says Utah went from a low-profile election state to a high-profile one when Mitt Romney decided to run for U.S. Senate this year.
"We realized that day that this was a game changer because you had a former presidential candidate who was very outspoken when it came directly to the Russian threat. We've been a low-profile state when it comes to elections, and that changed suddenly, so we knew we had to do more and we had to be prepared for this one very early on," says Cox.
Utah's elections office contacted Homeland Security very early on in the process after it became clear that Romney was going to run. They've been working with other federal agencies as well, including the FBI, to make sure the state's election systems were able to withstand a potential attack from outside agents.
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