When Russian operatives attacked the 2016 presidential election, Pennsylvania’s aging, paperless voting systems made it one of the nation’s most vulnerable states, experts found.

All 50 states were targeted by Russian affiliated cyber actors. But in 2018, Pennsylvania earned a spot on a list of the 18 most vulnerable states in a report from the Democrats on the House Committee on Administration — a group responsible for the oversight of federal elections. There is no evidence that hackers changed any votes, according to Volume 1 of the Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election.  

But the attacks moved lawmakers to improve election security across the country.

A decade later, where do things stand? Here’s a look at four of Pennsylvania’s biggest changes to election cybersecurity:

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