美国国土安全部星期一提出，愿意帮助各州选举官员设法保证投票系统免受网络袭击。
美国国土安全部部长杰·约翰逊主持召开电话会议，与会的有全国各地的官员以及美国司法部和美国国家标准技术研究所的代表。
美国大多数选民投票时都会遇到某种形式的投票机，无论是使用触屏直接投票，还是把纸质选票放在扫描器上。但使用哪种投票系统取决于负责全美9000个投票区的地方政府官员，而非联邦政府。
约翰逊鼓励各州采纳落实各项建议，包括投票进行时确保电子投票机不和网络连在一起。
他还宣布展开一项新运动，把政府、私营领域的专家集合起来，宣传投票安全，并加强人们对涉及投票程序的基础设施所面临风险的认识。
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security offered Monday to help state elections officials with the challenge of securing voting systems from the threat of cyber attacks.
Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson hosted a meeting by telephone with officials from around the country as well as representatives from the Justice Department and the National Institute for Standards and Technology.
Most voters in the U.S. encounter some kind of machine during the voting process, whether they vote directly on a touchscreen device or put their paper ballot into a scanner. But which system is used is up to officials overseeing the 9,000 separate voting jurisdictions across the country, not the federal government.
Johnson encouraged states to implement recommendations that include making sure electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet while voting is taking place.
He also announced a new campaign to bring together government and private sector experts to promote voting security and heighten awareness of the potential risks to the infrastructure involved in the process.
