"We generally think of election integrity as being a matter of preventing things like altered vote tallies and "ballot stuffing". That's the classic threat posed by, say, a dishonest candidate who wants to "steal" a public office. But a hostile state actor -- via an intelligence service such as Russia's GRU -- might be satisfied with merely disrupting an election or calling into question the legitimacy of the official outcome. With elections so heavily dependent on complex software-based systems, this kind of disruption can be very easy to do."
