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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

www.wired.com Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED has learned. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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In July 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd, "Get out and vote! Just this time. You won't have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't have to vote anymore."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vote-four-years/
- You know its bad when snopes doesn't try to do cover up work.

Every election going forward will be rigged, of course.
- People ask what the "red line" that would need to be crossed before we have a rebellion is. Not having an election in 2028 certainly would be such a red line.
  
  You realize they have an election when they are supposed to in Russia. The rebellion should have been in 2024.
  
  Who said anything about not having an election?
  We'll have one, it'll just be completely compromised in every way, and they will use it to choose whomever they please.
- i think it's entirely possible the last three were, too. they just goofed in 2020--underestimating the huge turnout, and didn't rig it 'enough'.
  
  Which is why Trump was so bent. He knew the fix was in and when he lost it had to mean that the other side cheated better.
  
  Pretty much
- Nah. All the smug protest one issue voters will just hand it to them again.

At this point it probably doesn’t matter. IMO, there likely won’t be another election for a while.
- Oh there'll be elections, but they will be a sham, and all of them will be stolen.

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