As lawmakers and election security experts try to counter President Trump’s assertion that voting by mail invites fraud, a senior official of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency dismissed the controversy as a “process” issue.
“I mean, you got to keep in mind what our goal here is,” the senior CISA official said on a call with reporters today regarding the primary contests happening in eight states. “We're supporting state and local officials as they implement their electoral, you know as they administer elections. We're focused on the infrastructure, providing cybersecurity services to the infrastructure, back-end systems, on voting machines, those are all the things. The president's concern is on the process side.”
The official was answering a question about whether CISA was doing anything to publicly fact check May 26 tweets the president made claiming the use of mail-in ballots means “this will be a rigged election.” In an unprecedented move, Twitter labeled the tweets “misleading,” and noted their potential to sow confusion.
On Monday, representatives from the Brennan Center and the Leadership Conference spoke during a forum hosted by Rep. Jim Langevin, D- R.I., co-chair of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, on “Election Security and Integrity During a Pandemic.”
Many cybersecurity advocates have been stressing the importance of voting by mail as a way to facilitate the electoral process without putting public health at risk. They also note that with processes in flux—today’s primaries are being held after being postponed from earlier—the voting public is more susceptible to disinformation attempts from adversarial nation-states.
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