🚨This is important - for too long our election system risk model was predicated on the faulty concept "security by obscurity." A partisan CO election official has published previously concealed election data, blowing that concept up, once and for all. 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
We don't need to panic, but we do need to admit that the previous risk model is wrong, and recalibrate our procedures to reflect that. This means: hand marked paper ballots as the primary vote recording method, accessible tech for those who need it, compliance audits, ballot...2/
...accounting, robust canvassing and routine, MANDATORY, risk-limiting audits. In this article CISA claims this has always been its risk model and the recommendations are unchanged BUT the problem is that election officials and state lawmakers have set the policies and ...3/
...procedures for years, not CISA. CISA has ZERO authority to mandate any procedures around election security, so while CISA may have been correctly assuming adversaries have access to this data, the people that actually make election policy have not - that's a big disconnect.
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