02/27/2024

How an Ongoing Controversy Could Sabotage U.S. Election Security

Some who run elections are split over whether to keep working with the CISA

The meeting between top U.S. election officials and their cybersecurity partners from the federal government almost went off without a hitch. Then Mac Warner spoke up.

Warner, West Virginia's Republican secretary of state, didn't have a mundane logistical question for the government representatives, who were speaking at the winter meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 8. Instead, Warner lambasted the officials for what he said was their agencies' scheme to suppress the truth about U.S. president Joe Biden's son Hunter during the 2020 election and then cover their tracks.

"When we have our own federal agencies lying to the American people, that's the most insidious thing that we can do in elections," Warner told the officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), who watched him impassively from the stage. "You all need to clean up your own houses."

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