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Citing overriding federal authority under the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the North Carolina Board of Elections (BOE) has denied a North Carolina House Freedom Caucus (HFC) request to examine voting machines.
Chairman of the caucus, Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort), told The Epoch Times that although there is a statute that requires state employees to comply with requests for data from the North Carolina General Assembly,
Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the elections board, declined the request to inspect voting equipment used in the November 2020 election in a July 7 letter.
During a July 15 press conference, Kidwell said the HFC had been responding to public concern regarding transparency in the election process.
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In future elections, federal officials predict repeat of 2020 threats
From left: Ricky Hatch, clerk and auditor of Weber County, Utah; Geoff Hale, director of the election security initiative at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; Cynthia Kaiser, section chief in the FBI cyber division; and David Imbordino, election security lead at the National Security Agency speak at the National Association of Counties conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on July 8. (Scoop News Group)
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Three federal cybersecurity officials told a roomful of county IT personnel Thursday that many of the threats to election security that manifested last year are likely to repeat themselves in future cycles.
2020 and Beyond: Maricopa County CISO Talks Election Security
2020 saw the FBI, CISA and local governments collaborate more closely to keep elections secure. Building on these efforts and better engaging private companies and the public will help protect future elections, experts say.
May 24, 2021 •
Lester Godsey speaks at the RSA Conference Maricopa County, Ariz.’s CISO recently convened virtually with members of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI to discuss the strategies that made the 2020 election so safe and what it will take to protect elections in 2022 and 2024.
Maricopa County CISO Lester Godsey said during the recent RSA Conference that 2020 “was a model election” but that there are many takeaways for maintaining and improving security for elections in the coming years.