OMAHA- Cyberhackers have launched attacks by the thousands towards the systems that undergird the nation’s election process in an effort to seek out any vulnerability to exploit, says Chris Wlaschin, Vice President of Systems Security for Omaha based Election Systems & Software.

“The (attacks) are not slowing down or shrinking, but are increasing in their number and their sophistication,” he said

Nonetheless, thanks to new and unprecedented levels of cooperation between the nation’s intelligence community, public election officials and private-sector vendors like ES&S, Wlaschin has confidence that the nation will see a safe and secure election this week. Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, the state’s top election official, likewise believes Nebraskans can have faith that the votes they cast will count.He bases his confidence in new protocols and technology that have been put in place in the last four years, as well as something much less high-tech: paper.

Paper ballots across Nebraska will be counted through ES&S machines, which are not connected to the internet, and have multiple records of ballot counts.

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