Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling

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Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling

A DHS spokesperson confirmed that some people have been taken off the task forces and moved to other roles in the department. The spokesperson added that the department is bringing on new people to do election security work.

“As recently as this morning, Director Krebs confirmed election security remains a priority for CISA in his testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security, laying out the Agency’s plan to work with State and local election officials on broader engagement, better defining risk to election systems, and understanding the resources to manage that risk,” said Sara Sendek, the DHS spokesperson. “In the run up to the 2018 elections, DHS staffed the newly created elections task force and countering foreign influence task force by temporarily assigning personnel from across the Department. The work of these taskforces continues to this day and is being institutionalized as a permanent effort. While some of the personnel who were brought on to serve on these task forces in temporary assignments have returned to their regular roles, we are also currently hiring new employees into permanent election positions to build out our team and support our efforts for 2020 and beyond.”

One lawmaker with knowledge of the formation of CISA said the task forces were never intended to be permanent.

“In some sense it’s not surprising that these changes are happening,”

Looks like personnel changes. Besides I think we have more non citizens voting and messing up the numbers than we have cyber interference.

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Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling