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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: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:48PM (1 child)
What lack of transparency? Almost every state has either paper ballots (whether cast in person or by mail) or a voter-verified paper trail at the polling place.
How much more transparent can you be? Well, I guess the states that *don't* have a paper trail [ballotpedia.org] (all of which went for Trump except New Jersey) could (and should) implement a paper trail.
All this bullshit about "Dominion" software changing votes is ridiculous. Not only are all the states where fraud has been claimed (without actual evidence) all have paper trails and the software is just tabulating the *paper* ballots, which can be (and generally are) audited in pretty much every election gives the lie to this.
What's more, *widespread* voter fraud is exceedingly difficult to do, given the decentralized nature of our election systems. Note that I say systems (plural), as each *county* runs their own elections. That's tens of thousands of people from *all* parties that are on the 3000+ (3,141 to be exact -- one for each county) *different* ballots across the nation looking at the ballots while they are cast and counted -- in the counties where they are cast.
And the counting process is similarly diverse across those 3000+ counties.
Sure. There are always a few instances of voter fraud in every election. But nowhere near enough to actually affect the outcome. The Heritage Foundation's Voter Fraud database [heritage.org] bears this out too.
Over the past *20 years* there have been hundreds of documented cases of voter fraud. Which might seem like a lot, but remember there are usually ~140-160 *million* votes cast in presidential election years and ~80-100 million in non-presidential election years. That's hundreds of cases of fraud vs. more than a *billion* (with a 'b') votes.
And the Heritage Foundation isn't exactly carrying water for the Democratic Party.
So who are you going to believe? Trump and his enablers or your lying eyes?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:52PM
Rule #1
Any flimsy accusation made by a Republican is projection. They are cheating so they accuse their opponents to try and keep the focus off of themselves.
Is slinches a shill? Or just a victim of the propaganda?