Sunday, August 11, 2024

US Elections Have Never Been More Secure, Says CISA Chief

Election tech is fine -- it's all those idiots buying into the propaganda that's worrying Jen Easterly

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... US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Jen Easterly and her counterparts from the UK and EU want the world to know that, when it comes to securing elections, they've never been more prepared.

Easterly, EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) COO Hans de Vries and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CEO Felicity Oswald took the stage for Black Hat's opening keynote, and all agreed that their countries (or international blocs, in De Vries' case) have managed to make their voting systems pretty resilient to outside threats.

"I can say with confidence that election infrastructure has never been more secure," Easterly claimed, and she had a ready explanation as to why: "the election stakeholder community has never been stronger." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-10 01:12 AM

The problem with election results seems to be a MAGA takeover of the reporting of the election results.

Can you say, "Georgia?"

I knew you could.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-10 01:15 AM

Some excellent guitar-playing coupled with great lyrics...

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Halley Came To Jackson (1990)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt...

genius.com

...
Late one night when the wind was still
Daddy brought the baby to the window sill
To see a bit of heaven shoot across the sky
The one and only time daddy saw it fly
It came from the east just as bright as a torch
The neighbours had a party on their porch
Daddy rocked the baby, mother said, "Amen"
When Halley came to visit in 1910

[Verse 2]
Now back then Jackson was a real small town
And it's not every night a comet comes around
It was almost eighty years since its last time through
So I bet your mother would have said amen too
As its tailed stretched out like a stardust streak
The papers wrote about it every day for a week
They wondered where it's going and where it's been
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910

[Verse 3]
Now daddy told the baby sleeping in his arms
To dream a little dream of a Comet's charms
And he made a little wish as she slept so sound
In 1986 that wish came round
It came from the east just as bright as a torch
She saw it in the sky from her daddy's porch
As heavenly sent as it was back then
When Halley came to Jackson in 1910

Late one night when the wind was still..
...


Yeah, they don't write lyrics like that anymore.

One of my fav tunes.



#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-10 01:25 AM

Propaganda like this, before an election is worrisome.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-08-10 10:00 PM

@#4 ... Propaganda like this, before an election is worrisome. ...

Why is it propaganda?

To me, worrisome is what happened to the Election Board in Georgia. No amount of security can protect against that sort of thing.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-11 01:21 PM

@#6 ... pretty resilient to outside threats. ...

Yup.

The rest of your current alias' comment looks like the usual MAGA assertions presented without evidence.



#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-11 04:57 PM

Secure as in the government picks the winner without the consent and interference of the governed..

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-11 05:00 PM

Facts ARE propaganda to Cultists.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-11 05:25 PM

@#7

btw, the Smartmatic charge your current alias refers to is likely this...

Smartmatic executives charged in alleged bribery scheme in the Philippines (august 9, 2024)
www.npr.org

... The president and two executives of the voting machine company Smartmatic are facing federal charges tied to allegations of bribing the former top election official in the Philippines.

Federal prosecutors in Miami allege that between 2015 to 2018, Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, a Venezuelan citizen, Florida resident and co-founder and president of Smartmatic and Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, a Smartmatic executive based in Florida, paid Juan Andres Donato Bautista, 60, at least $1 million in bribes during his time as chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) from 2015 to 2017.

The alleged goal to bribe Bautista was to win business tied to providing voting machines and election services for the 2016 elections in the Philippines, prosecutors said.

They allege the men over-invoiced the cost per voting machine for the 2016 Philippine elections and used slush funds and coded language to hide payments. ...


So, little-to-nothing to do with US election security.


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-11 06:08 PM

#7

And who pays you?

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-11 09:22 PM

@#9 ... Secure as in the government picks the winner without the consent and interference of the governed.. ...

Huh?


#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-11 09:47 PM

interesting....

The Post millennial.com in Pennsylvania is already writing that

"Pennsylvania announces election results won't be available election night"

--like they have been every cycle...including 2000...each of the returns I've watched

since 1960....except for 2020 and no one as of yet as said why ?

#14 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-08-12 10:45 AM

except for 2020 and no one as of yet as said why ?

The answer's been known for years. You just haven't cared to know that Republicans are to blame.

Political gridlock in Pennsylvania over election laws dates to 2019, when a Republican-controlled legislature greatly expanded voting by mail in a compromise with then-Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.

Within months, then-President Donald Trump began, without evidence, demonizing voting by mail as rife with fraud, turning Republican voters against it and leading Republican lawmakers to backtrack on their support. The attacks on mail voting have created partisan battle lines around attempts to fix it in Pennsylvania.

Among the most important fixes to the state's mail balloting law is one sought by counties. It would allow local election offices to begin processing mail-in ballots before Election Day, something nearly every other state with mail voting allows. That would help them produce results more quickly on election night.

Without any fixes in state law, Democrats expect a repeat in November of the chaos around the 2020 election.

whyy.org

#15 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-12 11:04 AM


Among the most important fixes to the state's mail balloting law is one sought by counties. It would allow local election offices to begin processing mail-in ballots before Election Day, something nearly every other state with mail voting allows. That would help them produce results more quickly on election night.

The issue would be, the results could be leaked early and then kill Election Day voting.

Only a complete tool without understanding of the world would state this is a good idea.

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-08-12 11:20 AM

The issue would be, the results could be leaked early and then kill Election Day voting.

Then why does every other state outside of those controlled by Republicans do it then?

Please go back to China or stop posting here. You don't have a clue how our voting systems work. Any state can start counting mailed-in ballots as soon as they receive them and keep the results confidential until after the Election Day polls close. Again, you misconstrue how simple citizens - many who volunteer - take their responsibilities seriously when it comes to elections at all levels, mainly because elections make our democracy possible. Many states announce their early tallies with absolutely no appreciable impact on same-day turnout. And what good would early tally numbers do anyway?

Only people who don't understand that Americans vote one person at a time, making it impossible to inject non-registered voters into the process in sufficient numbers to sway any race. In conjunction, no one ever knows definitively where illegal voters would be needed.

Media is blockaded from releasing exit polling until after the polls close wherever the polling took place. GOP states even forbid starting the mail-in ballot count even on Election Day itself when a lot could be accomplished before the days votes are available for counting.

So consider yourself a tool, okay....

#17 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-12 11:56 AM

Only people who don't understand that Americans vote one person at a time, making it impossible to inject non-registered voters into the process in sufficient numbers to sway any race think our voting systems aren't secure. - correction

#18 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-12 11:58 AM

-The issue would be, the results could be leaked early and then kill Election Day voting.

you're saying updated results in the digital age of communication will drive people to stay home on election day due to results being known rather than unknown?

Theoretically that could be the case but it's about using technology to improve our lives.

I have had conflicts for year on election day but I vote very consistently because I can go early......it's awesome.

If results from those votes being cast are communicated prior to the closing of the polls then so be it.

It's 2024. Elections should reflect that.

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2024-08-12 12:48 PM

the results could be leaked early and then kill Election Day voting.

Which isn't a real thing. States either report early voting totals or they don't. In most states, mail-in voting tends to skew towards one party over the other. I've never seen it 50/50. So to use early tallies as a reason either to or not to vote on Election Day only reveals the lack of importance any such voter places upon their right to vote.

In places where elections are often close, voters know that their votes are important and would not base their decision whether to vote on Election Day (or anytime) upon what others have done before them.

#20 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-08-12 12:56 PM

Secure as in the government picks the winner without the consent and interference of the governed..

#9 | Posted by visitor_

That's what the electoral college does, not the government. Would you like the get rid of the electoral college and have the voters pick our leader directly? Makes sense for every other democracy doesn't it?

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-08-12 01:00 PM

Of course it is.

I don't think MAGA genuinely believes otherwise, it's just a necessary facade to justify not accepting election results.

Just like their supposed faith is just a facade to justify being terrible, awful people.

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2024-08-12 06:39 PM

Sure, all those unsecured drop boxes everywhere in 2020 were real secure

#23 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-08-12 10:22 PM

" Sure, all those unsecured drop boxes everywhere in 2020 were real secure"

You realize all ballots are serialized and watermarked, right? And that ANY returned ballot which was not requested is automatically investigated, right?

Face it: if, after four years, you don't have proof you can submit in court ... it didn't happen.

#24 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-08-12 10:29 PM

#23

Ever heard of post offices, you stupid ------- ----?

#25 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-12 11:15 PM

#16

---- off loser

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-12 11:16 PM

Secure as in the government picks the winner without the consent and interference of the governed..

#9 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

No, loser, you just lose.

#27 | Posted by jpw at 2024-08-13 11:04 AM

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