‘The State of Connecticut will be receiving an award of $5,120,554 to assist us in Improving the administration of elections for federal office, enhancing election technology, and making election security improvements. State Match Requirement: We will be securing the required 5% match of $256,027 as follows: ‘We have expended $91,833 (April 10 and June 30, 2018) for hardware maintenance of our accessible vating system and a contracted expenditure of $99,260.00 to he camplated between June and December of 2018 for a cybersecurity upgrade to our centralized voter registration system for aur local election officals. The remainder of $64,824.00 will be expended in subsequent years before the required deadiine We are proposing adcitionsl voting equipment, security enhancements to address cyber vulnerabiltles, enhancements to post-election aualts, Improvemants to voter registration systems and management, enhanced security training of officiats, and improvernents to voting accaselilty. \With raspact to voting equipment replacement and upgrades, given the useful ife of cur Acai Vote Optical Scan tabulators with paper tall (purchased In 2006.) and specifically certain components of the optical scan tabulator, we are proposing the purchase of 169 addtional ‘optical scan tabulators to replenish the supply of machines in the field and to hold as inventory should any of the towns experience a fallure in their machines. The Accu-Vote tabulator we use in Connecticut has not been manufactured since 2007, but there is a supply of used machines fon the market. We are estimating the cast ofthat tobe 1,166,000. With raspact to election security improvements, we are proposing comprehensive cybersecurity training forall Ieal election officals. We will be utlizing the same online training classes that the state requires of ts employees, We are estimating that cost to be $10,000.19 adgition, we are developing online modules for the training and certification of reglstrars of voters, including a cybersecurity module and enhanced classroom modules, We are estimating, that cost to be $200,000. We are addressing any possible cyber vulnerabilities in the cantralied voter registration database, the online vater registration, end the election management system with enhanced password protection, ineluding two-factor authentication for a projected amount of $1,892,554 as follows: Application development Is estimated to be $200,000, We will also conduct a review of all wn network connections to ensure they meet the required capacity for a new desktop Infrastructure and Implement upgrades that will allow the Sacratary of the State's Ofice to ‘extend control to the town endpoints. The virtual desktop infrastructure and town network Upgrades is estimated to cost $1,092,554, We plan to hire a fulltime cybersecurity consultant for a petiod of four years to evaluate our security posture asi relates to all best practices and federal guldalines. In addition, this resource willbe cha¢ged with the development of our incident response plan as wel as all other required documentation. We are allocating $600,000 Jn total for the four year period for the consultant costs Because of the highly dacentralized nature of lacal election administration in Connecticut, we hhave proposed hiring a trainer to travel to perform regional traning for the Election Management System and the Contrallzad Voter Registration System at an expected cast of $95,000, ‘We will conduet a farensie aud ot all aur election vendars, including PCC Technologies, LHS ‘Associates, Adkins Printing, and IVS LLC, We are estimating those four auclts to cost $200,000, ‘We wall be contracting with ragional election monitors to faciltate robust post-election audits, compliance with federal and state election iaws, and to ensure that cybersecurity measures are in place at the local level, We are allocating $145,000 for thie enhancement. We are developing online videos for our web site for voters with disables to review the accessible ballot marking voting systems, and for users ofthe online voter registration, in order ‘to aselst us In Improving the administration of elections for federal office, at a cast af $75,000. We will provide for theee years of harchiare maintenance to assist In providing a secute ballat marking system for vaters with disabilities at a cost of $660,000. ‘We ara proposing to assist small towns with grant funding to replace outdated unsecure ‘workstations at an estimated cost of $200,000, We will be providing an additional grant in the ameunt of $37,000 to the State Elections Enforcement Commission for an equipment and software upgrade of thelr network infrastructure to secure the polnts of entry and the perimeter, ‘We will provide funding to the Center for Voting Technology Research at UConn to ensure there Is acontinued resource dedicated to resolving any security Issues associated with our voting systems, including the optical scan tabulators, and to provide recommendations regarding the security of any implementation of electronic poll books ata cost of $440,000, 2018 HAVA ELECTION SECURITY GRANT [Budget information [aaa amo SECTION A fuser roo nc vase | ‘BUDGET SUMAAARY FEDERAL WOM FEDERAL FUNDS te) {consoaea Butgt ot poet am p05 peor ose oy artes) sett Fert ude [a parcntge 6 eater ass Agere (omen erreanenan yee] tiuecn [hence] erty ena b, esamest 5 tawssawa| emo ‘ if extant wat A 5 15a) ease I $asem|s amomon|s _soemen|s k, orseeenre §siqumoo|szexere|s _ssoeon| 5 aamstsn|s f sorerome> sone