DHS Knew Mass Mail Voting Risks in 2020 But Censored Criticisms as ‘Disinformation’, Docs Show
The CISA document lays out six specific election fraud risks:
- 1. “Implementation of mail-in voting infrastructure and processes within a compressed timeline may also introduce new risk.”
- 2. “For mail-in voting, some of the risk under the control of election officials during in-person voting shifts to outside entities, such as ballot printers, mail processing facilities, and the United States Postal Service.”
- 3. “Integrity attacks on voter registration data and systems represent a comparatively higher risk in a mail-in voting environment when compared to an in-person voting environment.”
- 4. “The outbound and inbound processing of mail-in ballots introduces additional infrastructure and technology, increasing potential scalability of cyber attacks.”
- 5. “Inbound mail-in ballot processes and tabulation take longer than in-person processing, causing tabulation of results to occur more slowly and resulting in more ballots to tabulate following election night.”
- 6. “Disinformation risk to mail-in voting infrastructure and processes is similar to that of in-person voting while utilizing different content. Threat actors may leverage limited understanding regarding mail-in voting processes to mislead and confuse the public.”
Officials cited COVID-19 as justification for implementing mail-in ballots across the country.
However, despite CISA concluding that in-person voting did NOT increase the spread of COVID-19, and outlining the risks posed by the major mass mail-in ballot policy change, the agency continued to support it.