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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:49PM (3 children)
If you know of a specific issue, state it; then people will investigate and prove it wrong (because it is wrong). Just throwing out nebulous baseless claims isn't fooling anybody.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:27PM
But you've set a catch-22. Without an investigation, there could be mistakes or fraud, but nobody will know. Is that an okay system?
I'd advocate for everyone using paper ballots, and counting 3 times, or as many as necessary to achieve reasonable convergence. "Reasonable" meaning: if the margin or error is greater than the difference between the totals, you need to count again.
This ain't rocket science. Or maybe it is and should be done by rocket scientists.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:58PM
Here's a *specific* case of *attempted* election fraud. [latimes.com]
Even if the scheme had succeeded (which it didn't, because appropriate controls were in place to detect such efforts), it was nowhere near enough to change the outcome of just a *city* election, let alone a state-wide election.
Election fraud in the US is hard to do in a way that could actually affect the outcome of an election -- even a local election.
If you take even a cursory look into how elections in the US work, that becomes obvious.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday November 20 2020, @01:17AM
I just did. Read the procedures for registering and voting by mail in CA and tell me they're not absolutely designed to protect voter fraud.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.