There was a time when Republicans promoted “Election Integrity”, which as everyone knows, is really about suppressing voter turnout in areas that typically don’t vote the Republican way. So it may strike some as unusual that the second Trump administration.
In a memo sent Friday to all CISA employees and obtained by WIRED, CISA’s acting director, Bridget Bean, said she was ordering “a review and assessment” of every position at the agency related to election security and countering mis- and disinformation, “as well as every election security and [mis-, dis-, and malinformation] product, activity, service, and program that has been carried out” since the federal government designated election systems as critical infrastructure in 2017.
“CISA will pause all elections security activities until the completion of this review,” Bean added. The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities at the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center, a group funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has served as a coordinating body for the elections community.
Then again, ‘Election Integrity’ doesn’t matter if as Trump has said to his supporters, “..get out and vote, just this time… you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”
Read more at https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-election-security-freeze-memo/
