The issue focused attention on cyberattacks during last year's presidential election and heightened worries over hackers penetrating computers used by elected officials and lawmakers to glean confidential data and compromising confidential databases of confidential voter data.

Computer programmers employed by hackers infiltrated databases belonging to voter registration databases used by Arizona's secretary of state and voter databases used by Missouri's secretary of state and hackers infiltrated databases belonging to voter registration databases used by Maine's secretary of state and databases used by Nebraska's secretary of state and databases used by Idaho's secretary of