The Brennan Center’s report on oversight of election service vendors says that those private companies “present points of attack into [the] election infrastructure” of the United States.
“Private vendors’ central role in American elections makes them prime targets for adversaries,” the report says, “Yet it is impossible to assess the precise level of risk associated with vendors – or how much that risk impacts election security.”
Big concerns include “foreign ownership of vendors (whether foreign nationals, or agents of foreign governments, own companies performing critical election functions),” and “supply chains (where parts, software patches, and installations come from; how are they transported; and how they are kept secure).”
The focus, consistent with public rhetoric, is on Russia, but the Brennan Center report presumes that the threat can come from any vendor. The following image is from the report.
Source:
1.Framework-election-vendor-oversight
1. Why did neither political party, nor the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) or the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, appear to take the Brennan Center’s concerns seriously?
2. What has the FBI been doing about protecting private election vendors from being targeted by foreign adversaries?
3. “Foreign ownership of vendors (whether foreign nationals, or agents of foreign governments, own companies performing critical election functions),” and “supply chains (where parts, software patches, and installations come from; how are they transported; and how they are kept secure)” – who in responsible for election security has been tracking this?
4. Did the 2016 Russia collusion narrative cause blindness toward smaller, less traditional threats like Venezuela’s regime?
Comments are closed.