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Since Election Day has passed, a lot of attention has been focused on the oversight of voting technology and the companies who manufacturer these systems. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent, bipartisan commission charged with facilitating secure, accurate, and accessible elections by developing guidelines to meet the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, testing voting systems, accrediting test laboratories, and serving as a national clearinghouse of information on election administration. 

Phishing emails impersonating the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and using eac@usa.gov as the spoofed sender have been recently reported. The email uses EAC graphics in an attempt to trick recipients into providing their name, date of birth, and other personal information into a malicious web form that impersonates an Arizona state government website.