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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: 4, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:02PM (7 children)
The errors were found and corrected, yes?
Even so, the numbers from the glitches were not significant enough for Trump to win Michigan.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:12PM (6 children)
How many more "glitches" have not been uncovered? I would think a tech site would know that if you find one issue. Probably a fluke or user error. If you find the same problem recurring. You have a problem with the software.
Most secure as in blind trust and didn't look when issues keep coming up in GA recount that mirror Antrim county MI.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:31PM (5 children)
I would think that a tech site would remember that until Trump ran we were all shouting how horribly flawed and completely unreliable electronic voting was. I mean, shit, it's not like it was a long time ago.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday November 19 2020, @04:56PM (1 child)
... we were all shouting how horribly flawed and completely unreliable electronic voting was.
Yep. I still remember. I still shout. The fraud would be only in a subset of the states where the so-called voting and tabulating machines were used. I notice that a lot of the real election security experts have been terribly quiet for about a year though.
That asshole microsofter was just fired after having done his job (for M$ not the government) perfectly. That job was to cover for M$ by releasing some perfectly timed, extremely caged statements:
If he had been doing more than just covering for M$, he could have stated that the election was secure and that they have irrefutable evidence that the tallies are actually valid.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @05:33PM
How do explain that they are about to do recounts? If there are no ballots?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 19 2020, @06:49PM (1 child)
See elsewhere in this topic where the few states that DON'T have paper trails are all states that voted for Trump.
I don't know of anyone who suddenly thinks that electronic (paperless) voting is a good idea. But it's funny that only red states use that. The states I would LEAST trust to run a fair election use paperless voting, oh my.
It's funny that with all the crying about the election being rigged, nobody can seem to come up with any actual evidence. In fact, quite the contrary. Even Republicans are saying how well run this election was. Republican judges throwing out Trump's baseless suits for lack of any actual evidence.
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @07:50PM
BUT THAT'S THE PROOF! The fact that those state went for Trump shows the fraud in paperless voting machines! No one in their right mind would vote for that dumbass, so THOSE are the areas you need to focus your attention on for fraud.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2020, @08:33PM
Dumb fuck conservative-who-thinks-he-is-liberal accidentally argues that GOP is cheating. Fucking hilarious, thanks jackass!