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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: 2, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 19 2020, @10:08PM (1 child)
The most disturbing thing is the "Black is White, might makes right" actions they are taking while in control of things like Supreme Court nominations.
I know the Ds pulled out the nuclear option first, but the Rs are going beyond retribution.
What kind of mechanism is required to de-Gerrymander districts? The R hold on power is so tenuous at this point, if they lost that one advantage it seems that they would fall down a deep hole they might never climb out of.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @05:54PM
Gerrymandering can be prevented by having districts set by a committee of citizens, like Michigan is now doing (a form of direct democracy). Apportionment reform could make gerrymandering less relevant by greatly increasing the number of districts and diluting the power of partisan voting blocs.