While the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have stepped up their admonitions in recent weeks, they issued another joint statement Monday evening warning of Russian disinformation about the 2024 general election. Authorities warn that the operations target swing states (duh) and strongly encourage voters to “obtain information from trusted, official sources, particularly state and local election officials.”
No offense, FBI, CISA, ODNI, but we will put on our cynical pants if we collect information from “trusted, official sources.”
“Since our statement on Friday, the IC has observed foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, conducting additional influence operations to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans. The IC expects this activity to intensify leading up to Election Day and in the coming weeks and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states.”
What was the trigger for this statement? It must have been something pretty gigantic, right? Incorrect. The memo cites an article and a video that were supposedly circulating on the Internet, but which I don’t recall ever coming across.
The IC understands that Russian influence actors recently published and amplified an article falsely claiming that U.S. officials in all swing states are planning to orchestrate election fraud using a range of tactics such as ballot stuffing and cyberattacks.
Russian influencers also manufactured and amplified a recent video that falsely portrayed an interview with an individual who alleged voter fraud in Arizona involving the creation of fraudulent foreign ballots and altering voter rolls in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris. Arizona’s Secretary of State has already dismissed the video’s claim as false.
If anything, these efforts would dampen Republican turnout, so it’s a little strange that FBI/ODNI/CISA cares about this other than trying to discredit a possible Trump win with ties to “disinformation.”
Meanwhile, there was no mention of the possibility of actual voter fraud in Colorado because crazy Secretary of State Jena Griswold “accidentally” posted the BIOS passwords for the state’s voting machines on the agency’s website. If you haven’t read how to do this yet The An error occurred, it’s an epic facepalm.
On Tuesday morning, Colorado Republican Party Vice Chair Hope Scheppelman announced the discovery of the hidden tab in a mass email, along with an affidavit from someone claiming to have the Excel file from the Colorado’s website -Secretary of State downloaded and discovered the hidden tab by simply clicking “unhide.” The name on the affidavit was redacted in the Republican Party email.
The passwords that were in the hidden tab are called BIOS passwords and are part of the security process for Colorado’s voting machines.
These are passwords that are required to configure the system settings.
“There are two unique passwords for each voting equipment component, kept in separate locations and managed by different parties. Passwords can only be used with physical in-person access to a voting system,” said a spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.
Nor is there any mention of the constant disinformation spread by Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and their surrogates, who continually post demonstrably untrue videos on social media and promote debunked narratives at rallies and on newscasts – without the facts being provided by the “government.” be checked. Journalists” in the room.
At this point everything is over except voter turnout. So don’t pay attention to what ANYONE says, just go out and vote.
