New Brennan Center Survey about local election security
Local Election Officials Survey — July 2025
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/local-election-officials-survey-july-2025

New Brennan Center Survey about local election security
Local Election Officials Survey — July 2025
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/local-election-officials-survey-july-2025
It’s democratic primary #election day in #virginia. Just 2 races on the ballot. Picking the Democratic Party candidate for lieutenant governor and attorney general. It’s sleepy. We do the full thing l: all the same procedures and all the full security, but for a fraction of the voters. Polls opened at 6am. At 7:45 we checked in our 7th voter. We finally have had more voters than election officers. I’ll do a thread here during the day about #elections and #electionsecurity and all the humdrum ordinary things of helping people vote.
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Arizona’s Elections Procedures Manual states that supervisors have no discretion when certifying results — or at least, that’s how it’s always been interpreted. @TucsonSentinel reports on a court ruling that threw out that section of the manual, and that may now shake up pending criminal charges for conspiracy against an election supervisor who delayed certification of Cochise County’s 2022 midterm results. “Ambiguity in election certification laws is a problem in several swing states across the country,” writes Jen Fifield.
North Carolina voters: Do NOT send your passport by email or any other method right now.
The ballot curing process hasn’t started yet. If you get a message asking for your passport, it could be phishing. Stay alert and protect your information.
We’ll share official instructions as soon as the process begins.
#DemocratsAbroad #NCVotes #ProtectTheVote #ElectionSecurity
At this rate, Putin will be our next president.
Election officials face limited options as federal security resources fall away
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/16/2310237/-Election-officials-face-limited-options-as-federal-security-resources-fall-away
#CISA: We didn't fire #redteams, we just unhired a bunch of them
Agency tries to save face as it also pulls essential funding for #electionsecurity
Former CISA employee #ChristopherChenoweth, senior pentester, said via LinkedIn he and more than 100 others had government contracts terminated on Feb 28, as ordered by Musk's #DOGE. He said this comprised his entire red team and all support roles, and March 5 a second #redteam tasked with "mission-critical work" was also cut.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/cisa_red_team_layoffs/
https://www.europesays.com/1882438/ USAID freeze opens door to Russian influence in Eastern Europe – POLITICO #AidAndDevelopment #AlexanderLukashenko #Armenia #Azerbaijan #belarus #democracy #Development #DonaldTrump #ElectionSecurity #elections #EnergyInfrastructure #Georgia #HumanRights #media #Moldova #NGOs #RuleOfLaw #Russia #security #Transparency #Ukraine #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen
Surprise, surprise. It's never too early to start planning for your next term!
Election security is the latest target in Trump's rampage
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/12/2303214/-Election-security-is-the-latest-target-in-Trump-s-rampage
#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #ElectionSecurity
From AP.com: US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave
Election workers are trying their very best to ensure every eligible person can cast a ballot in the upcoming U.S. election, and some people are doing their best to thwart that. @gbhnews learned what’s going on in New Hampshire — threats, intimidation, rumors and lies that have led to resignations and retirements of election workers across the state.
Trump is Putin's useful idiot.
Over and over and over.
He;s been in touch with Putin many times since he left the Presidency.
What is the definition of treason?
He must be nowhere near the Presidency.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-7-secret-calls-personal-143632850.html
#National Security #HOmelandSecurity #ElectionSecurity #Election2024 #TrumpPutin #VoteBlue #USElection #WI #MI #PA #GA #NV #AZ #NC
This is a not-very-well-hidden call to his supporters who are in charge (Louis De Joy) and those who are workers at USPS to sabotage.
Stand back and stand by:
"HELP!"
Throw the guy in jail already.
My young white male nephews are lost to the MAGA cult.
I'm asking white men...is it bravado laced with a love of guns? Is there some mind control in the gaming culture?
Why have soooo many fallen down the rabbit hole?
Is it because of lack of college education? More rural than urban?
These are not Fox News consumers.
In the section on the #DHS …there’s a plan to eliminate the ability of the agency that monitors #ElectionSecurity to prevent the spread of #disinformation about voting & #vote counting.
…Think back to Nov 2020, when #Trump was developing his #BigLie about the #election he’d lost. Trump’s false assertion the election had been characterized by “massive improprieties & fraud” was tripped up by #ChrisKrebs, who served as dir of the #Cybersecurity & Infrastructure #Security Agency (#CISA) in the DHS.
#Republicans want to get rid of #votingMachines because the unreliability, inaccuracy, and chaos of hand-counting will provide cover for them to manipulate the results. It's about their desire to strip the decision-making authority from the voters, and put it into the hands of partisan extremists.
#GOPfascists #GOPLies #RepublicansAreTheProblem #RepublicanDeathCult #ElectionsMatter #electionSecurity #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-supreme-court-long-shot-2667541007
Putin Starts Preparation for Large Scale War Against NATO.
I know you're busy and don't really have time for all this.
But Putin doesn't give a shit. He thinks he's on a roll. Because the US won't stop him.
[Today at 12PM PT] How can you help support fair elections? By becoming a vote count observer! Join this free online training by Scrutineers and learn how to watch and safeguard the vote count. No experience needed, just a passion for democracy. Register now:
https://scrutineers.org/get-involved/events/ #ElectionSecurity #Democracy #VoteCountObserver
"The letter sent by nearly two dozen computer scientists, election security experts and voter advocacy organizations asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting machines used throughout the country, saying the software breaches have 'urgent implications for the 2024 election and beyond.'”
#VotingMachines #ElectionSecurity #Trump #Republicans #crime
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