WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Cortes added that the state's Department of Elections gets an annual report of how many times there has been a probe of its registration system.
"We have no reason to believe that our system has been scanned during the recent cyberattacks," Cortes said.
Virginia authorities have a high level of confidence in their capabilities to handle voter fraud issues during the upcoming presidential election on November 8, Cortes told Sputnik.
"We are pretty confident going into the election," Cortes said. "We are really confident in our ability at the state level and the local level to deal with voter fraud issues if they come up."
The transparent nature of Virginia’s registration process, Cortes claimed, contributes to the fact that large scale illegal activities have not been a frequent occurrence.
Voter fraud can usually be addressed locally, although sometimes it must be dealt with at the state level, Cortes explained, but rarely do such cases require the involvement of the US Department of Justice.
After the incident, the state’s Voters Registrar's Office announced that it would submit a list of the false voter registrations to the Electoral Board to have those registrations canceled.
"Virginia is on track to either meet or exceed our prior record in 2008," Cortes said. "We had at this point about 230,000 absentee requests approved."
Cortes noted that this year Virginia is expected to reach the total number of absentee forms registered in 2008, which was 500,000 ballots.
Voting absentee in-person started in Virginia on September 23 and will last through November 5.
"These next two Saturdays will be the busiest days for early voting," Cortes added.
US citizens are set to elect the next president of the United States on November 8. The District of Columbia and 36 other states have already started early voting.
