Government employees have long protected the ballot from attacks. The president is preparing to fire many of them.
In its crusade against federal agencies, the Trump administration is targeting our election system, making potentially dangerous reductions to protections that help keep elections free, fair, and secure. On Friday, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sent a memo to all agency staff notifying them that "all election security activities" would be paused pending the results of an internal investigation. The memo also stated that the administration was cutting off all funds to the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center--a Department of Homeland Security-funded organization that helps state and local officials monitor, analyze, and respond to cyberattacks targeting the nation's election hardware and software.
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