Funding Voting Machine Data Security in the orange Blossom State

Florida legislature authorized the spending of  $1.9 million in federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) money for:

• Counties to buy devices & pay for a monthly monitoring service that looks for hacker attacks
• Each sensor costs $8,000
• Monthly monitoring is $1,300/month
• Funding will last only for 12 months
• Funding was not provided to protect the statewide database of voter information
• Funding doe snot include the Governor’s request for 5 cyber security experts 

Tampa Bay Times | Despite attempted Russian election hack, Legislature did not create cyber security unit