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President Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs, director of the Agency for Infrastructure Security and Cybersecurity, announced tuesday the president on Twitter.
“Chris Krebs’ recent 2020 election security was very inaccurate, as there were major irregularities and fraud,” Trump tweeted. Trump claimed, without offering evidence, that there had been “voter deaths,” declared election observers banned in polling stations “and” problems in voting machines that replaced Trump’s votes to Biden. “
In the two weeks since the election, Krebs and his company have vigorously challenged claims like these. The company created a “rumor checking” site that indexed existing fraud allegations and later argued that they were false. on the vote of deceased persons by stating that “the maintenance of electoral lists and other measures of electoral integrity contrary to illegal voting on behalf of deceased persons. “
“Please don’t retwum outlandish and baseless claims about voting machines, even if they’re made through the president,” election security expert David Becker wrote on a tweet last week. Krebs retwented the tweet from his official CISA Twitter account.
Krebs hoped his confrontational technique would cause friction with the president. Last Thursday, Reuters reported that Krebs expected Trump to fire him. According to Reuters, the White House had pressured CISA on rumors of curtain fraud, but the firm refused.
As it does now regularly, Twitter ranked Trump’s tweet pronouncing Krebs’ dismissal. “This claim about voter fraud is in dispute,” the label said.
On Monday, dozens of computer security experts signed a letter questioning allegations that hackers had altered the effects of the 2020 election.
“We are aware of alarming claims that the 2020 elections were “manipulated” by exploiting technical vulnerabilities,” the letter says. << However, in all cases that we are aware of, these claims are unfounded or technically inconsistent. knowledge, no credible evidence has been presented to conclude that the outcome of the 2020 election in any state has been altered. technical commitment. "
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