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,

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