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Election safety is the newest goal in Trump’s rampage

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Editorial Board Published February 12, 2025
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Employees on the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company who targeted on misinformation have been positioned on administrative go away, the Division of Homeland Safety confirmed on Tuesday—a transfer that leaves state election officers on their very own as they search to guard Individuals from tried intrusions on elections.

“CISA needs to refocus on its mission, and we are starting with election security,” a spokesperson for the Division of Homeland Safety stated in an announcement on Tuesday, seemingly confirming an Related Press report that stated 17 election safety officers at CISA had been positioned on go away. 

“The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” the spokesperson continued. “While the agency conducts the assessment, personnel who worked on mis-, dis-, and malinformation, as well as foreign influence operations and disinformation, have been placed on administrative leave.”

Election safety is the newest goal in Trump’s rampage
Then-candidate Donald Trump and future Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem dance to the track “Y.M.C.A.” at a marketing campaign occasion in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 14, 2024.

Hobbling CISA—a department of the Division of Homeland Safety that was fashioned throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace—was a objective of Undertaking 2025, the right-wing screed that Trump distanced himself from through the marketing campaign however that his administration is now implementing since he gained workplace.

“Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis/disinformation efforts,” Undertaking 2025 learn. “The federal government cannot be the arbiter of truth.”

Undertaking 2025 railed on CISA’s efforts to fight mis- and disinformation, citing the investigation into Russia’s meddling within the 2016 election.

“CISA began this work because of alleged Russian misinformation in the 2016 election, which in fact turned out to be a [Hillary] Clinton campaign ‘dirty trick,'” Undertaking 2025 falsely acknowledged, including that “CISA has devolved into an unconstitutional censoring and election engineering apparatus of the political Left” and that “the entirety of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee should be dismissed on Day 1.”

Different Republicans have additionally attacked CISA.

In late January, Trump sycophant Marjorie Taylor Greene, who moonlights as a consultant from Georgia, flagged the company to co-President Elon Musk for cuts. 

“Joe Biden’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was more focused on undermining President Trump than they were protecting our own critical infrastructure. The thugs responsible for that kind of waste and abuse will be held accountable!” she wrote in a publish on X.

Marjorie Taylor Greene hold press conference about their filing of a lawsuit over mask fines in Congress, in Washington D.C. on July 27th, 2021. (Photo by Zach Roberts/NurPhoto via AP)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia screams on July 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

After he gained the 2024 election, a number of studies stated that the way forward for CISA was doubtful due to Trump’s anger that the company wouldn’t substantiate his lies about fraud within the 2020 presidential election. In 2020, Trump fired CISA director Chris Krebs after Krebs stated that the election that yr was safe and never rife with fraud.

As for the current firings of CISA election staffers, secretaries of state from each events who run elections have praised CISA’s efforts to assist them defend election safety.

“The most value that we’ve got from CISA has been the people that they have on the ground in our state that build direct relationships, not just with us but with the individual county clerks,” Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican, stated in January. “They’re teaching them and helping them check their physical security and their cyber hygiene, and that’s been extremely popular.”

And election officers in states throughout the nation are warning that eliminating these CISA officers will make elections much less safe.

“Any step to weaken CISA will make it harder to keep our elections secure,” Aghogho Edevbie, Michigan’s deputy secretary of state, wrote in a publish on X. “CISA has simply been an invaluable partner for our department and local clerks across Michigan.”

And Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wrote a letter to Trump on Monday urging him to reinstate the staffers. 

“This decision undermines the integrity of Arizona’s election security at a time when our enemies around the world are using online tools to push their agendas and ideologies into our very homes,” Fontes wrote, including that eliminating CISA election personnel is “akin to dismissing national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration … staff ahead of hurricane season.”

“I urge you to reconsider these decisions and to reaffirm the federal government’s commitment to securing our elections,” Fontes added.

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