The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency this summer turned down a multimillion-dollar proposal to protect election officials from harassment ahead of the midterm elections, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN.
The plan’s rejection comes as some DHS and cyber officials have expressed concern about their work to stem disinformation being cast as “partisan,” according to multiple people familiar with DHS policy discussions. Last month, DHS shut down its high-profile Disinformation Governance Board after Republicans criticized the expert chosen to lead the board as being overly partisan.
’s assistant director for cybersecurity through Election Day in 2020, said the stakes are high. “If somebody from the US government doesn’t stand up and address disinformation and misinformation, I’m confident that our adversaries will take advantage of it,” Ware told CNN. , first submitted it. CIS has for years carried out cybersecurity work for federal and state government agencies. Among the many concerns that officials expressed about the plan was how it would be implemented. The anti-doxing component would have used software to track when election officials’ personal information is dumped online so that they, and potentially law enforcement, could be notified.
established itself as the main federal go-between for state and local election officials. Six years later, though, that commitment is being tested. “It felt like we failed the American public” in 2016, with the lack of a strong federal response to Russian interference in US elections, the senior US official told CNN. “And we’re bordering on that again because we are afraid of our own shadow on the misinformation-disinformation front.
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