$420 million of federal money is being used to secure this year's election. Election commissioners and Rep. John Kato met on Tuesday to talk about the issue. 

"Across the spectrum the issues of cybersecurity are very acute and we've got to keep working on them," said Katko.

In Onondaga County the concerns are simple: working with outside vendors.

This past election, the board ran into an issue when a third-party vendor ran out of bandwidth while counting votes. It caused a 45-minute delay in early voting results. The Onondaga County Board of Elections works with four separate vendors during elections.

"We’re concerned too but we're taking steps to make sure that everything is going to work in a way that the votes are counted, counted accurately, and the results are able to be posted in a timely way," said Onondaga County Democratic Board of Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny.

Free of cost to the BOEs, the security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency will run assessments of each office, identifying vulnerabilities. There will also be "tabletop" scenarios to prepare Board of Elections for any kind of risk.

"Those tabletop exercises will allow commissioners to think off their feet and resolve problems as they come up because we don't know what the problems will be but we know how to work with the problems and work through a resolution," said Czarny.

It still hasn't been determined how the money will be allocated to counties.