==Election infrastructure has 'never been more secure,' CISA chief says
Assurance comes as there has been Russian interference in the election.==
October 31, 2024, 4:09 PM ET
Election has 'never been more secure,' CISA saysJen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told ABC News' Pierre Thomas that she has "incredible confidence" in the security of the election. Jon Elswick/AP
With less than a week before the 2024 presidential election, the infrastructure has "never been more secure," according to the head of the federal agency tasked with America's cyber defense.
Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told ABC News' Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas that she has "incredible confidence" in the security of the election.
"I understand why some Americans have questions, because they've been subjected for years to a fire hose of disinformation, and it has undermined confidence in the election systems and in our democratic institutions, but I have spent so much time on the ground over the past three plus years with state and local election officials who are on the front lines of running and managing and defending election infrastructure, and I can tell you, I have incredible confidence that our election infrastructure has never been more secure," Easterly said during an interview at CISA headquarters.
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly speaks with ABC News' Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas at CISA Headquarters in Arlington, VA on October 31, 2024. ABC News
"Election officials have never been better prepared to deliver safe and secure and free and fair elections for the people," she said.
For example, she said that 97% of registered voters will cast a ballot in jurisdictions where they'll get a paper record that they themselves can verify, which is "incredibly important," she said.
Voting machines are not connected to the internet and that is a "great source of protection."
That disinformation is being amplified by foreign adversaries, according to Easterly, who pointed to various examples of disinformation already being debunked – such as a fake video of ballots being destroyed in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
She said foreign adversaries have two goals: to undermine American confidence in the election and sow discord in the country.
"Within a day, the federal government used our tools, our forensic analysis, to affirm that it was a fake video, that it was a Russian manufactured video," she said. "So at the end of the day, we are going to lean very far forward when we see inaccurate information that could undermine Americans trust in elections."
CISA is also responsible for advising election officials on the physical security of their election.
"As a retired Army officer, as a combat veteran who has been in very dangerous places where we've had flak jackets and, you know, we've been behind layers of security, it is disconcerting to me, as an American, to see election offices with bulletproof glass and panic buttons and barbed wire fences," Easterly said. "That's not the way it should be in America, and we know that these threats, harassment, bullying, swatting, threats of violence to election officials and their families, election officials of both parties largely stemming from unfounded claims that the 2020 election was rigged."
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/election-infrastructure-secure-cisa-chief/story?id=115363983
Guys its Russia Again, who would have known? I guess we were wrong. KEK
The more they try to denounce the truth of 2020 the more they prove the crimes they committed
Look at Jane trying to convince us! she's basically admitting with her eyes and mouth she is lying her fucking ass off. How's it feel Jane to be a liar for corruption. Did you sell your soul for a corrupt government job to protect Bidan, the child predator of all time? Hows that feel, you'll regret it later once you spend the bonus Bidan gave you