Election security draws scrutiny ahead of midterms
Politics · First reported 2 Nov, 20:07 · Updated 20:40
Coverage focuses on questions about the federal government’s role in election security. One account describes reduced CISA attention and Justice Department monitoring, while another highlights how little CISA now mentions election protection.
- CISA has scaled back its election-security work during President Donald Trump’s second term, raising concerns about the government’s response to foreign interference.
- The Justice Department said it deployed observers in all 50 states; a federal judge barred monitors from acting as sworn law enforcement officers or making arrests.
- Michigan’s attorney general’s office contacted the Justice Department over reports of monitors speaking with poll workers in Dearborn and Flint, outside their permitted duties.
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- Observer deployment
- The Justice Department said it deployed observers across all 50 states.
- Federal court limit
- Monitors cannot be sworn law enforcement officials or make arrests.
- Michigan locations
- Reports concerned monitor conversations with poll workers in Dearborn and Flint.
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- An earlier Lux story reported that CISA added two Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after their use in attacks. [a45223d0-b2bb-409c-9f94-1ea89ff1b52c]
- Another earlier Lux story said CISA confirmed exploitation of the Brotli vulnerability known as Node2Shell and added it to the same catalog. [43477496-7b55-4d10-bf0d-b5155acf46e3]
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