WASHINGTON _ Homeland Security officials haven't seen cyber attacks or widespread irregularities several hours into voting Tuesday, two U.S. officials familiar with the effort to track hacking attempts said on the condition of anonymity.
Phones are quiet so far inside a cyber security "war room" set up by the Department of Homeland Security to field calls from local election officials about hacking attempts, one official said. Computer experts at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, pronounced "N-Kick" for short, are on high alert, ready to field questions and marshal a response should hackers try to interfere with voting systems.
U.S. intelligence officials had warned that hackers in Russia or elsewhere may attempt to change voting tallies or alter results to sow distrust in the outcome.
During the course of the morning, a few calls had come in with scattered reports of voting machines not working in a handful of jurisdictions, the official said, but not more than during a normal election year.
