CASPER — In 2016, the Russian government successfully hacked America’s elections.

It hijacked messaging, assisted certain candidates and, in some cases, even managed to breach a state’s voter registration system.

With the 2020 election approaching, states around the country are working diligently to avoid further influence in their elections, doing everything from upgrading their voting systems to taking a magnifying glass to their own practices in-house.

But election interference, according to the nonpartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy’s Head of Research Jessica Brandt, is not...