Despite Trump, Election-Security Effort Is Robust

You might not know it, listening to President Donald Trump, but the U.S. government has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect this year’s election from foreign interference. With little more than a week left until Election Day, will its efforts hold up?

Last week, John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, and Christopher Wray, the FBI director, held a joint briefing to warn that Iran and Russia had obtained registration data and (in Iran’s case) sent fraudulent emails intended to intimidate voters. They suggested that more such efforts are likely to come, asked the public to be vigilant and expressed confidence in the integrity of the voting system. A bipartisan statement from the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee affirmed the warning.