Local Government Minister Darragh O’Brien, who oversees elections and voting reform, put together a task force in January to recommend laws to maintain electoral integrity.
election, Russia surreptitiously bought ads on Facebook, and state actors posing as Americans swarmed social media to rile up people on both sides of the aisle.
According to the U.S.
general election, Russian hackers managed to break into several county government databases, in some cases gaining access to—but not altering—electoral data.