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Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Fired

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the retribution-can-be-petty dept.

MostCynical writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @01:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 20 2020, @01:34AM (#1079530)

    Really? Fake people registered to vote, how is that hard to prove?

    Exceptionally hard to prove unless you do complete audits of the voter registration lists before every election.

    In my state of residence (New Mexico), voter registration lists are available at any time for a fee. Presumably you can "audit" as much as you like, any time you like.

    Person has their vote "stolen" by somebody else intercepting their ballot in the mail before they get it and votes under their name, how many complaints of this happening have been shown as even slightly credible?

    How would you know if it's credible or not? You would have to prove a negative (having not received a ballot) to have a strong case.

    I'm pretty sure that if I requested a ballot and did not get it, I would know in pretty short order. How many times has this actually happened?

    There was an openly stated objective by the Democratic party to get Green party candidates off the ballots in swing states. That appears to have had a significant influence in the outcomes there and shouldn't have been legal either.

    Could you quantify "significant influence"? Do you know of any instance in which this was likely to have affected the outcome of the election?