INDIANAPOLIS The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working to combat doubt and uncertainty about the security of U.S. elections.

"There is no evidence that malicious actors changed, altered, deleted, or had any material impact on the outcome of the 2020 election, Jen Easterly, the Director of CISA said. That has been validated time and time again including in dozens of court cases and in multiple Intel assessments."

CISA addressed the steps the agency has taken leading up to November 5th.

"The election stakeholder community and election officials have never been better prepared to deliver safe, secure, free, and fair elections for the American people, Easterly said.

With the election just around the corner, stress levels are at an all-time high and a senior researcher at Tufts University says that stress is highest among young people.

"LGBTQ+ youth, also women, as well as we are starting to see patterns where the youth of color, Sara Suzuki a Senior Researcher at Tufts University said. Those three groups were experiencing higher levels of stress during the election."

Suzuki, who has been studying election stress on young people since 2020, says rhetoric targeting the political involvement of those groups and access to voting, both play roles. Suzuki says voters must be critical of where they get their information and encourages them to lean on support groups to reduce stress.

"Be engaged with peers who are like-minded, Suzuki said. Be engaged with spaces where adult mentors could facilitate dialogue about the things you care about."

CISA says the agency is prepared for challenges following Election Day. They hope that Americans can come together and understand that counting votes takes time.

"It may take a couple of days to a couple weeks to do the final certification that has to be done, Easterly said

CISA is encouraging Americans who have questions about election security to visit their website. The agency recommends getting voting information from your local and state election officials.

To read Suzukis research click here and here.

WRTV has a compiled a list of information, dates and locations Hoosier voters should know ahead of Election Day.

INDIANAPOLIS The elections for president, governor, and Congress may have the most attention on Indiana's ballot, but voters have to decide on a constitutional amendment question before anything else.

Indiana's ballot begins with this question: "Shall the Constitution of the State of Indiana be amended to remove the state superintendent of public instruction from the list of officeholders who shall discharge the powers and duties of the governor if the office of the governor and lieutenant governor are both vacant?"

Early voters such as Joe Jessee were confused by the question when they saw it on their ballot.

"I had to read that over a few times because I wasn't real sure what it meant," Jessee said.

League of Women Voters Indiana president Linda Hanson has a simple explanation if you also don't know what it means.

"It takes a non-elected position out of the list of those who would replace the governor if he was not able to serve," Hanson explained.

The question concerns the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a position which no longer exists after Jennifer McCormick's term ended in 2021. It was replaced with the Secretary of Education, which is appointed by the governor.

Constitutional amendments are rare in Indiana because they can not be proposed as a referendum from voters, only as measures from lawmakers.

"Even though the preamble to our constitution says all rights reside with the voters, that's not what happens in Indiana," Hanson said. "There is no way for anything to go through without going through our legislators."

Early voter Lori Ward hopes the Indiana legislature finds a way to open up ballot questions to the public.

"I would like to see a change so that the people have more of a say," Ward said. "A lot of people died and a lot of sacrifices were made for us to be able to do this."