Posted on 11/14/2020 12:07:46 PM PST by bitt
yes, that CISA:
21 Nov 2019: The Hill: DHS cyber agency invests in election auditing tool to secure 2020 elections
BY MAGGIE MILLER
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) cybersecurity agency announced Thursday it would partner with election officials and private sector groups to develop an election auditing tool that can be used to help ensure the accuracy of votes in 2020.
DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnering with non-profit group ***VotingWorks on an open-source software tool known as Arlo, which is provided to state and local election officials for free.
According to CISA, Arlo conducts an audit of votes by selecting how many ballots and which ballots to audit and comparing the audited votes to the original count.
“Heading into 2020, we’re exploring all possible ways that we can support state and local election officials while also ensuring that Americans across the country can confidently cast their votes,” CISA Director Christopher Krebs said in a statement.
Krebs added that “At a time when we know foreign actors are attempting to interfere and cast doubt on our democratic processes, it’s incredibly important elections are secure, resilient, and transparent.”
Use of post-election audits have been widely recommended by experts as a major step to secure elections, particularly in the wake of attempted Russian interference in 2016.
The use of audits was a step recommended by the Senate Intelligence Committee to secure elections in volume one of its bipartisan report on Russian interference efforts in 2016...
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/471577-dhs-cyber-agency-invests-in-election-auditing-tool-to-secure-2020
following provides links:
Archived: Influence Watch: ***VotingWorks
VotingWorks is a left-of-center non-profit provider of voting machines and open-source election verification software. In November 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it would partner with VotingWorks to pilot the use of its vote verification software in six battleground states during the November 2020 election. In April 2020, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, VotingWorks announced it would be providing technological assistance to states and local jurisdictions seeking to scale-up voting by mail opportunities...
VotingWorks was created within and incubated by the left-leaning Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) in December 2018 and later and spun off as a separate non-profit. CDT’s major donors are large technology firms, such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft; and large left-of-center foundations, including George Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Ford Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation...
In November 2019 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it would partner with VotingWorks to pilot the use of Arlo in six battleground states during the November 2020 election...
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, VotingWorks announced it would be helping states scale-up voting by mail. An April 2020 news release announced VotingWorks was building VxMail, a set of tools to help implement and deploy vote-by mail with services such as ballot printing, envelope stuffing, mailing, ballot receipt, signature verification, and ballot tabulation...
https://archive.is/7Egpy
Even the most optimistic Freepers know this is going nowhere.
Bull
Unless somebody gets arrested....nobody F’ing cares!!!!!!
That’s definitely possible.
Unless it’s news from an outlet I know well and has been trustworthy, I don’t pay much heed.
And even the known and trusted ones..these days you have to double check.
Most of this stuff is disinformation put out by the Rats to try to paint us as kooks.
I suspect most of the stuff being presented in the courts, are not anything that’s been put out in social media.
I prefer “Tick Tock” stories from BADASS69!...
Would be nice if true and some how keeps him as the President. Is it true or is this like the raid in Germany where we seized servers proving foreign tampering. What the heck guys and girls. I want this stuff to be true. Is this part of the Kracken that Sydney is going to unleash. Please say it’s true.
Lots of info there, thanks. Suspicious/cynical takeaway is, CISA ultimately fostered VotingWorks, etc, which actually helped print/stuff ballots for their leftist masters rather than secure the election. Thank you very much for the lead.
Never.
Doesn’t this belong in the KooK Korner?
A “Bombshell” woulds be if we saw any of this in court.
We might...its possible. But without that, its just talk. We are not going to win with “talk.”
“COURT” is not where you present such things.
State Legislatures are the court. Present it there. They are the judge and jury.
Last week I sent the largest political donation I’ve ever made to the Trump election defense effort. That is to help rational, judicious adults pursue an evidence-based, persuasive case and push it through the system. That takes a bit longer than cooking up wild stories that hit the wishful thinking button, so I’m prepared to be patient and wait until something substantial breaks.
Mind over emotions, people. This frantic dingbattery helps nobody but the ones who want to discredit our side.
Check out recent posts by LS, the perennial optimist.
blah blah blah ...
It’s complete BS.
The idea that US forces operated against a private company in an EU country is so ridiculous that it deserves scorn, not attention.
If you expect that to work, you will be sadly disappointed. They make the original rules. The courts support/enforce those rules.
You don’t look for a legal remedy in a political body.
And, taking it to the courts will probably only make changes for next time around.
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