Election cybersecurity explained
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[0:01] Tens of thousands of observers are
[0:02] fanned out nationwide to monitor polling
[0:04] sites in person. But an even bigger
[0:06] concern is cyber security. As the
[0:08] Justice Department has rolled out its
[0:10] largest ever monitoring program, and the
[0:12] Democratic National Committee created a
[0:13] firstofits-kind cyber security unit
[0:16] staffed by former CIA and FBI officials
[0:18] to monitor and report misinformation
[0:20] spreading online. I want to bring in CBS
[0:22] News legal expert and analyst Chris
[0:24] Krebs. Um Chris, really great to have
[0:26] you on the show and want to ask you
[0:28] about something that we're learning
[0:29] about in real time. So some states are
[0:32] already reporting voting machine
[0:34] problems. Most machines in Westchester
[0:36] County, New York, are down right now. So
[0:38] they're moving to paper ballots,