Sec. 2. Purposes
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The purposes of the Commission are— to identify and document mitigation and response actions to or in the prevention of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in, or threats or attacks to, the election systems in the United States in 2016; to document and describe any harm or attempted harm with respect to election systems in the United States in 2016; to review foreign cyber interference in elections in other countries in order to understand additional cybersecurity threats, interference methods, and successful defense mechanisms; to make a full and complete accounting of what emerging threats and unmitigated vulnerabilities remain and to identify likely threats to election systems in the United States; and to report on the recommendations of the Commission for action at the Federal, State, and local level.