things like penetration test, vulnerability assessments, and cyberscams, here in vermont we have to do a weekly hiking scan of our system through the dhs currently. the communication level just last summer has increased and when i say last summer, summer of 17 has increased s tremendously. we now have an election dashboard with dhs and the fbi. we look at real-time information as to any threats that might be on the horizon. we m are caught to focus on howe can do this. i can go into detail and ask about all the different things we've got in place. >> a lot of the issue you talk about, a lot of the new aspects funded through some $380 million in federal funding that is gone now through help america vote act funds. vermont got about $3 million worth of those funds. how did you choose to use them? >> first, let's talk about the 380 million. i was working with senator leahy to get the money released. that was left over hanging chad money from 2002 stimulus the remaining portion of the three-point line alien dollars where it ended out back in 2002. so this is money that we knew had heard he