Senators Introduce Bill To Fund Election Official Cybersecurity Training

This article in The Hill is written by Maggie Miller:

Senate Rules Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Wednesday reintroduced legislation to designate funding to provide cybersecurity training to election officials.

The Invest in Our Democracy Act would establish a $1 million grant program to cover up to 75 percent of the costs of tuition for cybersecurity or election administration training for state and local election officials, along with their employees. 

The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) would oversee the grant program, with EAC employees also eligible to receive funding for training.  

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