Indiana counties are finally getting money from the state to add a critical election security measure to their electronic voting machines.

Indiana counties that use electronic voting machines are finally getting enough money from the state to equip all those machines with paper backup systems.

A proposal for improving Indiana's election security by adding small printers to thousands of electronic touch-screen voting machines is being criticized by voting rights groups as relying on ineffective and outdated technology.

Indiana will no longer move up the deadline for counties to install a vital election security measure on their voting machines.

More than half of the voting machines Hoosiers are using in this year's election don't have a paper backup -- making them more vulnerable to irreversible errors and breaches.

FBI officials in Indianapolis say foreign influence will be an important focus of election security this year, but they'll also investigate other election crimes, like voter manipulation and data breaches.

Two recent studies one by Pew Research, the other from Harvard put Indiana in the bottom half of states for election integrity.

Secretary of State Connie Lawson says a private cybersecurity firm will monitor attempts to infiltrate state voter databases scans, she says, that happen all the time.

The General Assembly appropriated $10 million in the new state budget for election security, which will pay to add paper trails to just 10 percent of the machines that need them by next year.

Indiana University President Michael McRobbie co-chaired the national committee that released the election security recommendations.