The nation's top election security official broke down as she recounted the vitriol targeting election officials, including those in her home state of Washington. 'It's unnerving,' said Kim Wyman.
The nation's top election security official broke down as she recounted the vitriol targeting election officials, including those in her home state of Washington."It's unnerving," said Kim Wyman, now the senior election lead at the nation's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency .
"People who go for these jobs – as elected officials or poll workers – have they bought into this stolen election lie? Now we have to worry about them coming in and attempting to be an insider threat," said Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association."That increases the likelihood of another Tina Peters."
"Albert sensors" — a cybersecurity tool designed to alert local governments about potential hacking attempts"I talked them through why we have the sensors," Wyman said."If we see an IP address in a foreign nation that's hitting every single election office that has an Albert sensor, that's an indicator that that's a threat actor trying to get into those systems. And we can alert those election officials to be able to secure their systems.
After California recall proponents pushed their way into county offices in Nevada County to film election workers in late 2021, election officials installed four cameras to offer public livestreams of ballot processing. "My office is an old state patrol barracks," Kirk told CBS News."This is not a building that was designed to be a very secure building. My polling places – community buildings – are located in places where security was not the first thing in mind. I'm not sure how to temporarily secure those spaces in a way that allows folks to still feel welcome.
More than a year after Attorney General Merrick Garland established the federal Election Threats Task Force to investigate threats to election and poll workers, the unit has faced scrutiny for producing just one conviction and a handful of charges. Last month,more than 1,000 probes of harassing and threatening messages directed at election workers.
According to election officials, the latest barrage of public records followed a live-streamed"Moment of Truth" summit in late August organized and livestreamed by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell who urged followers to request"cast vote records" – spreadsheets generated by voting machines -- from election offices across the country.
"When you're spending a considerable time responding to uninformed records requests derived from internet conspiracies, that time is not being spent on the administration of our elections," Hovland, said."There's no question that this is a denial of services attack," said Crane, referencing a cybersecurity tactic used to overwhelm victims with trafficked communications."They are trying to create chaos and confusion with these open records requests.
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