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Trump appointees asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine and not reveal the results, report
Trump administration political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security requested that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) secretly acquire and hack a voting machine without notifying the vendor, according to two former officials. CISA career staff refused the request, citing it as contrary to the agency's mission and feared it constituted political interference. The incident reflects broader concerns that resource constraints and political pressure have degraded CISA's capacity to protect voting systems, leaving states to fill gaps independently.
Why it matters: Election officials and state leaders need to understand that federal election security support may be compromised; they should verify their own defenses against cyber threats and develop contingency plans for voting machine security independent of federal coordination.
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