6 facts about false noncitizen voting claims and the election

National Public Radio (NPR) OCTOBER 12, 20245:00 AM ET

"This presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have been repeating the false narrative that Democrats are purposefully letting migrants into the country so they will vote.

There’s no evidence for the claim, which echoes a racist conspiracy theory known as the "great replacement."

Misleading claims about noncitizens voting can undermine confidence in the 2024 election

By focusing on baseless allegations about noncitizens voting in the upcoming election, Trump and his allies appear to be laying the groundwork for potentially contesting the election.

"You can absolutely bet if Trump loses, he will claim there was widespread noncitizen voting without any evidence whatsoever," David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research told NPR last month. "And that is going to incite anger and potentially violence."

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election-2024-noncitizen-fact-check-trump

Following is a description of Becker

"In 2005, when Becker was still a trial lawyer in the Civil Rights Division, a formal complaint was made against Becker after he contacted the city of Boston offering to help defeat a lawsuit opened against them by his employer, the DOJ, for voting infractions. Brad Scholzman, acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights division at the time, stated, “It was the most unethical thing I’ve ever seen” and called Becker “a hard-core leftist” who “Couldn’t stand conservatives.”

Hans von Spakovsky, who worked as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, agreed with Scholzman’s characterization of Becker. “In his role with the DOJ, he was supposed to be non-partisan, but his emails uncovered in the Boston investigation revealed nasty, disparaging remarks about Republicans. Very unethical and unprofessional.” Becker did not deny these claims when asked for comment by Legal Newsline. “There was no action taken against me by the Department of Justice as a result of this complaint,” he answered, dismissing the complaint as irrelevant.

Liberal Advocacy

In 2005, Becker became a director for the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way (PFAW). He continued specializing in electoral law and expressed skepticism of widespread voter fraud. 8 Becker was registered as a lobbyist for PFAW in 2007 and 2008.

In 2008, Becker became the director of election initiatives at Pew Charitable Trusts. In an early meeting of election law experts, Becker and others in the organization decided that the biggest shortcoming in the American electoral process was voter registration. However, Becker believed that Congress was too politically divided to promote voter registration, so the nonprofit sector would have to step in. He soon led the creation of the Electronic Registration Information Center, an off-shoot of Pew, which updates state voter information records by cross-referencing numerous public and private databases. In 2020, ERIC had 30 state members and identified 17 million voters. Becker remains a non-voting member of ERIC’s board.

In 2016, Becker co-founded and became the executive director of the Center for Election and Innovation Research. 15 During the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump criticized the security of American elections by citing a research report written by Becker while at Pew which claimed that there were millions of inaccuracies in voter records. Becker claimed that Trump took his report out of context and that the vast majority of inaccuracies were not exploitable for voter fraud."

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/david-becker/

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Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks performed by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with associations with the People's Liberation Army.First disclosed publicly by Google (one of the victims) on January 12, 2010, by a weblog post,[1] the attacks began in mid-2009 and continued through December 2009.[3]

The attack was directed at dozens of other organizations, of which Adobe Systems,[4] Akamai Technologies,[5] Juniper Networks,[6] and Rackspace[7] have confirmed publicly that they were targeted. According to media reports, Yahoo, Symantec, Northrop Grumman, Morgan Stanley,[8] and Dow Chemical[9] were also among the targets.

As a result of the attack, Google stated in its weblog that it plans to operate a completely uncensored version of its search engine in China "within the law, if at all," and acknowledged that if this is not possible, it may quit China and close its Chinese offices.[1] Official Chinese sources claimed this was part of a strategy developed by the U.S. government.[10]

The attack was named "Operation Aurora" by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research at cybersecurity company McAfee. Research by McAfee Labs discovered that "Aurora" was part of the file path on the attacker's machine that was included in two of the malware binaries McAfee said were associated with the attack. "We believe the name was the internal name the attacker(s) gave to this operation", McAfee Chief Technology Officer George Kurtz said in a weblog post.[11]

According to McAfee, the primary goal of the attack was to gain access to and potentially modify source code repositories at these high-technology, security, and defense contractor companies. "[The source code repositories] were wide open," says Alperovitch. "No one ever thought about securing them, yet these were the crown jewels of most of these companies in many ways—much more valuable than any financial or personally identifiable data that they may have and spend so much time and effort protecting."[12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

>>21752305

Fuckin' thank you. Great stuff.