A federal court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration attempting to force the state of California to turn over sensitive voter data. The decision, issued by the U.S. Central District Court of Southern California, is a major setback to the federal government’s massive data collection effort on American voters, and its…
Category: election
Cybersecurity, election, Election Security, Global Security News, Government, U.S. courts, voting systems
Trump calls on Colorado to release election-denying clerk from jail
President Donald Trump is calling on Colorado state officials to release Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk serving a nine-year prison sentence for stealing and sharing sensitive voting system data in a failed attempt to bolster Trump’s claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In a Truth Social post Monday, Trump…
election, Global Security News, Guest blog, Law & order, Romania, social media, Social networks, TikTok, Vladimir Putin
Russian bots hard at work spreading political unrest on Romania’s internet
Internet users in Romania are finding their social media posts and online news articles bombarded with comments promoting blatant propaganda, inciting hatred towards the EU and NATO, and support for Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Donald Trump, election, Election Assistance Commission, Election Security, Global Security News, Government
Trump issues executive order seeking greater federal control of elections
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that threatens states with the loss of federal election grants unless they comply with a broad list of requirements concerning the administration of elections. The order makes numerous inaccurate and misleading claims about American elections, many of which mirror older allegations that Trump made regularly on the…