The FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency issued a new joint statement on Monday night warning against Russian disinformation regarding the general election of 2024. The agencies warn the operations are aimed at swing states, which is no surprise and encourage voters to seek out official information, especially from state and local election officials.
We’re not going to take offense at the FBI, CISA, or ODNI. But we will wear our cynical pants whenever we get information from “trusted official sources.”
The press release starts:
Since our Friday statement, the IC has observed foreign adversaries, primarily Russia, conduct additional influence operations to undermine public trust in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divides among Americans. The IC anticipates that these activities will increase through election day, as well as in the weeks to come. Foreign influence narratives are expected to focus on swing states.
What prompted this statement? It must have been something pretty major, right? Wrong. The memo cites one article and one video allegedly circulated online, neither of which I recall coming across.
The IC assessed that Russian influence agents recently posted and amplified a false article claiming that U.S. government officials in swing states planned to orchestrate electoral fraud using a variety of tactics such as ballot stuffing, cyber-attacks, and more.
Russian influence agents also produced and amplified another recent video that falsely depicted a person claiming Arizona election fraud, including creating fake overseas votes and changing voter lists to favor Vice President Kamala Harris. Arizona’s Secretary of State has already rebutted the claim in the video as false.
Curiously, FBI/ODNI/CISA are concerned about this, as opposed to trying to discredit Trump by linking him to “disinformation”.
Jena Griswold’s “accidental” posting of the BIOS passwords of Colorado’s voting machines to the agency website by the lunatic Secretary-of-State, was the reason for no mention of the possibility of actual election fraud. You’ll be shocked to learn how this mess happened.
Hope Scheppelman, vice chair of the Colorado Republican Party, shared this discovery via a mass email on Tuesday morning. She also included an affidavit signed by someone who claimed to have downloaded the Excel document from the Colorado Secretary’s State website, and found the hidden tab simply by clicking “unhide”.
BIOS passwords are part of Colorado’s security system for voting machines.
These are the passwords required to configure the system settings.
Two passwords are unique for each piece of election equipment. They are stored in different places by separate parties. A spokesperson from the Colorado Secretary’s Office stated that passwords could only be used by those who have physical access to the voting system.
The “journalists” present in the room did not check the facts before promoting debunked narratives at rallies or on news programs.
It’s over except for the turnout. Don’t listen to anyone and go vote.
