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H.R. 6188 115th Congress House

Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2018

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to improve election system cybersecurity by facilitating and encouraging assessments by ind… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to improve election system cybersecurity by facilitating and encouraging assessments by independent technical experts to identify and report election cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 21, 2018 Introduced by: Mike Quigley Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
Government Operations and Politics Computer security and identity theftElections, voting, political campaign regulationIntergovernmental relationsState and local government operationsTechnology assessment
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Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Jun 21, 2018
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Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2018

This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to establish the Hack the Election Program to improve the cybersecurity of the systems used to administer federal elections by facilitating and encouraging assessments by independent technical experts, in cooperation with state and local election officials and election service providers, to identify and report election cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6188: Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2018. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6188/
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"H.R. 6188: Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2018." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6188/.
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H.R. 6188, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6188/.
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[H.R. 6188: Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2018](https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-6188/)
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