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The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)
President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".
CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:55PM (8 children)
Go back to my initial response to your post:
What I dispute is your claim that "us tech types" are (currently) arguing in favor of trusting, blindly or otherwise, computerized voting machines. My counterclaim is that "us tech types" have always, and continue to, argue /against/ using these types of machines and that we argue in favor of paper-based voting.
I don't know if it's me or if you're trying to be deliberately obtuse, but I have a hunch based on your previous response...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:30PM
Buzzard is the only one here who voted on a paper-trail free system.
Maybe instead of bitching about it on a website he could vote for those 'tech types' who want to fix the problem.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:46PM (1 child)
The buzztard has a well-known habit of being obtuse. Whether it is deliberate or not is anyone's guess. In any case it is not you. Just so you know.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:28PM
Obtuse? I thought it was obstinate. Or obstreperous. Or Obstetric. Obstructive? Ostragoon? Or possibly Obstragastric. We mailed in our electronic votes? What they heck is he even talking about? Mail-in ballots are on paper. Provisional ballots are on paper. Absentee ballots are paper. TMB is stuck in the past.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:19PM (1 child)
Maybe I'm misreading TMB's first post, but I read it as sarcasm. Either way, Poe's Law is in full effect.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:40PM
Every single time I think TMB is trolling he claims to be serious, and frequently his serious posts look like trolling. I think he is more influenced by propaganda and conspiracy crap than he thinks. I haven't seen a single person say voting machines are trustworthy, so he is probably mixing in some of his amger about the election.
Bonus, he will just deny any support of Trump and NOTHING ever upsets him; even when many things obviously upset him. He might be almost entirely detached from his own emotional states.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 20 2020, @01:01AM (2 children)
I'm not the one being obtuse here. You need to read the rest of the responses. You're very much in the minority, even of this community, if you dare criticize the security of electronic voting.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @05:26PM (1 child)
I think you're missing the point that we don't have electronic voting. It's always counted by hand as well. Fix your own state if they can't get basic shit right.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @01:00AM
Are you fucking stupid? Pieces of paper with ink on them are not especially difficult to create at will.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.