IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa’s 14-year-old voter registration system will live to see another presidential election.

The Iowa Secretary of State’s office confirmed Thursday that a long-discussed plan to replace the I-Voters database will not be completed before the 2020 elections.

Spokesman Kevin Hall said the office remains in the information-gathering phase of the project, which was formally launched more than a year ago. He said the state plans to solicit information from potential vendors soon and to later move forward with a bidding process.

“This is a big project and we owe it to the voters of Iowa to build it responsibly with the future of elections and security in mind,” he said.

The project is expected to cost $7 million and the office doesn’t yet have all that funding, he added.

Russian hackers tried to infiltrate Iowa’s elections system in 2016 but were not successful.

Current and former state officials say they have confidence in the security of the I-Voters system and that they’ve taken steps to prevent intrusions, including two-factor authentication and cybersecurity training for users in all of Iowa’s 99 counties.

Built in 2005 and launched the next year, the system has been upgraded numerous times and contains data on Iowa’s roughly 2 million registered voters.