Homeland Security preparing to send out new information on preventing a voting machine cyberattack

Homeland Security sending advice to election officials to protect voting machines from cyberattack

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is preparing advice for election officials to better protect electronic voting machines, online ballots and vote counts from hackers, following the high-profile breach of Democratic National Committee emails, the head of the department said Wednesday. “We are actively thinking about election cyber security right now,” Jeh Johnson said at…