CISA and Election Security Partners Hold Tabletop the Vote Exercise in Preparation for 2022 Midterm Elections

WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in coordination with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), hosted the nation’s largest annual election security exercise this week.  Public and private election security partners from across the country participated in the fifth annual Tabletop the Vote.  The exercise, which was not in response to any specific or credible threat, took place August 17–19.  It included a range of hypothetical scenarios affecting election operations, giving participants the opportunity to share practices around cyber and physical incident planning, preparedness, identification, response, and recovery.