Visitor publish by Harry Haury and Marly Hornik from United Sovereign Americans. Initially printed at JoeHoft.com—republished with permission.
The White Home has ordered a evaluate of methods to share duty for securing important infrastructure with the states. This sensible transfer harnesses native means over a nationwide, one-size-fits-all monolithic method that usually results in fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer funds.
Probably the worst instance of derelict important infrastructure administration is our voting programs. In reality, staggering failures of compliance at federal and state ranges have resulted in a nationwide emergency, as reported by credentialed cyber auditors and specialists from the non-partisan election validity group United Sovereign Americans (USA). Utilizing official state data of the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections, USA carried out novel analysis proving the invalidity of voters, votes, counts and audit data.
What’s the federal authorities’s function in securing elections? Latest articles declare that chopping funds on the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA), inside the US Division of Homeland Safety, will end in election safety vulnerabilities. These articles mislead the American individuals into believing that CISA serves the individuals’s pursuits by routinely waiving safety necessities on important infrastructure and forming public-private censorship campaigns directed at conservatives and funded by CISA. All of this in direct violation of the primary modification rights of People involved about election integrity.
The truth is kind of totally different. Step one to assuring our deviously advanced voting programs are impenetrable is to outline and lock down management of the operational safety (OpSec) boundary. Compliance of apparatus, personnel and course of inside can now be assured, however in our present delusion, safety guidelines are routinely violated systemwide. Officers have deserted 15 CFR VII and 31 CFR VIII as non-obligatory, leaving provide chains for election infrastructure large open to hostile penetration and seize.
When voting tools is sourced overseas, CISA should show that imported components don’t grant America’s enemies a backdoor into subverting our tradition or stealing trillions of {dollars} by way of their Manchurian candidates. All proposed system parts go to the Committee on Overseas Funding in the USA (CFIUS), chaired by the Secretary of the US Division of Commerce, for safety evaluate. Checking “web connectivity” is a naive over-simplification of the various risk controls wanted to ship official illustration. Your entire course of, from buying tools, reviewing software program code, hiring and coaching voter registrars and pollworkers to certification and storage of data, ought to have been analyzed by CISA and CFIUS by way of the Federal Info Methods Modernization Act’s (FISMA) Threat Administration Framework (RMF).
If Info Assurance (IA) specialists at CISA did their responsibility, that may have occurred. Each step in election course of have to be scrutinized for dangers, vulnerabilities and compliance, as it is going to be used. This contains IA officers accountable to federal legislation at each polling website, and wherever the votes are obtained, counted, monitored, and saved. CISA’s mission is to safe the OpSec boundary like a nationwide border towards digital or different invasion, and frequently monitor the perimeter for dynamic, evolving threats.
Did CISA carry out a complete RMF evaluation earlier than authorizing programs to be used in federal elections? No. Did states adjust to required protocols for important infrastructure? No. Due to apathetic or disloyal officers, USA recognized 8.5 million votes ascribed to voters who don’t exist, or don’t observe to any voter in any respect, counted within the 2022 midterms in California, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Ohio. Official state data of California’s 2024 election present 35% of votes got here from materially poor voter registrations. This catastrophe was simply used to put in 52 Home members and Senator Schiff.
An investigation into the important infrastructure safety posture of California, Illinois, New York and different pivotal states’ voting programs can’t wait. The federal authorities ensures the residents of every state a republican type of authorities, and safety from invasion. Penetration into elections have to be investigated, prosecuted the place warranted, and stuck. In distributing duties between the federal authorities and states, we should ask if we actually have the sources, human, materials and financial, to efficiently management digital voting programs?
Harry Haury is the Chairman of United Sovereign People, a Cyber Safety SME, and a former senior data assurance architect for the federal authorities.
Marly Hornik is the CEO of United Sovereign People and founding father of New York Residents Audit.
