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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 DannyB on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:44PM
At least where I live, in order to vote by mail (and we did consider it), we would have to request the ballots, by mail. Sent to our address. Then we would return them. They would receive them through the mail, in a signed envelope, check that we really are on the voter roles, and had not yet voted, and then count them.
I don't see how any kind of massive fraud could happen unless it happened within the postal system. And given the nature of postal inspectors, this seems unlikely. The post office will spend any amount of money and investigation to track down single instances of mail fraud or mail tampering. Even anomalous things in a post office can trigger an investigation that usually doesn't last long. I have a friend (retired) who worked his whole life in the post office in many different roles.
If the vote receiving department were to start receiving multiple ballots purportedly from the same voters, this would be highly suspect. Especially if it happened for multiple voters. (eg, someone sent in a ballot, allegedly from me, without my knowledge, but I sent one in also)
(We voted in person a couple weeks early.) If someone were to send in ballots in our names, and we had already, or later vote in person, they are going to know that we had already voted and something is wrong. If this happens on a massive scale, it is big news. Even if it happened on a small scale (less than a few hundred fraudulent ballots) this is big news.
There is ALWAYS errors and some fraud. But not in numbers big enough to affect the overall result.
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?