host: the secretary of state of connecticut denise merrill is our guest on the c-span bus in hartford. we invite c-span viewers to join in on the segment. secretary of state merrill will be taking your calls as we continue this discussion. how much money did connecticut get from that federal fund to improve election security and how did you use it? guest: our share is around $5 million. very welcome because we can always improve things. we are using it to bolster our existing firewalls and other systems. we are doing the kinds of checks one does on electronic systems for the voter registry. our biggest concern is at the local level. connecticut is a little unusual. we don't have county systems. everything is done at the town level. we have 169 towns. mostly small towns. each of them has a router in their town that is the drop point for this closed loop system that is our voter registry. when you register to vote, you register at the town level. the only people able to put names on or take names off the list are the local election officials. we are worried about the routers in those to

. >> and joining us aboard the c-span bus is secretary of state denise merrill. since the 2016 election that connecticut was one of those states that have its voting targeted. what were they try to do. and how far did they get in connecticut. good morning. knitting get anywhere frankly. we turn them back at the perimeter of our system as we do most of these kind of systems. i have to tell you it's a very common occurrence. the difference here was it was a russian agency ip address. they did not get into our system at all. it has nothing to do with the tabulation of balance. i don't know what they were attempting to do. i was president of the national association in 2016. i was pretty involved with all of the things that went on in all of the different states. we still really know because it was turned back it was turned back and all but one state. i think it is just a -- so discord in the american public. we would see it. we had paper backup list. and so on election day if someone came in and said i'm supposed to be on the list. if it happened in any big number w

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