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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, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:26PM (1 child)
I always voted in person, if I voted, until this November.
The biggest thing I like about mail-in ballots is that they give me the time to research candidates, particularly local small races, online before casting a vote - make a more informed choice rather than one that's biased mostly by the party, gender and ethnicity of the name on the paper.
Direct vote buying, like hand me your ballot and I'll fill it in and mail it for you? Or, let me watch you fill in your ballot and mail it otherwise I'll fire you from your crappy $9/hr job? I feel like that would be a huge story, and all over the press if it actually happened.
I had a company attempt to get me to sign a gag agreement after they laid me (and everybody else) off the week before Christmas 2012. I asked what would happen if I signed or didn't sign? Oh, nothing, our investors just want all "employees" to sign this - implying: sign this or you don't get re-hired. Not interested in continued abuse, I walked out and feel no compunction whatsoever about telling anybody who will listen all about it. I seriously doubt that any vote buying operation of any size (100 or more voters) would stay secret for even a day before somebody thought they'd rather trade their job for 15 minutes of fame and burn their ex boss in the process.
If you're in that kind of family, it's time to leave home. Also, looking at the kink of the two parties, which party do you think would be more inclined to tell all family members to think for themselves and vote their conscience vs. intimidation to follow suit?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @10:42PM
"The biggest thing I like about mail-in ballots is that they give me the time to research candidates, particularly local small races, online before casting a vote - make a more informed choice rather than one that's biased mostly by the party, gender and ethnicity of the name on the paper."
Voting in person on election day gives you even more time to research the candidates.