Iowa's secretary of state talks election security

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Iowa's top election official is reassuring the public ?

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Kimt news 3's nick kruszalnicki is live in mason city with how they are working to protect one of our most cherished rights as citizens ?

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"* the state is activating the emergency operations center on election day.

It's just one of the many ways state and federal officials are making sure everything goes smoothly on tuesday.

Xxx "we are working with these state and federal partners to strenthen iowa's election security and infrastructur e and to prepare for any kind of situation that might arise on election day."

Iowa secretary of state paul pate saying voters should have complete confidence in tuesday's elections.

He says the state's election computer systems are under close scrutiny.

"our systems receive hundreds of thousands of cyber alerts every single day, but we continue to strenthen our systems to ensure bad actors stay out."

The federal government is also keeping a watchful eye on iowa's elections.

In the press conference we heard from f?

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He says they are going to monitor the election for any wrongdoing ?

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"our fbi command post here, over iowa and nebraska will be our focal point to assess allegations of election crime, to investigate threats, to gather and share intelligence and to serve as a lead point of contact for all election related matters."

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"as we stand here today, there are actors across the globe deploying efforts to strenthen themsevles and weaken the united states.

Our adversaries, they see our since 2018, the state of iowa has spent two million dollars of federal grant money to strenthen their cyber security.

Another one million went to counties across the state.

Live in mason city, nick kruszalnicki,