Pausing their work now, while there are no elections occurring, to ensure the work they are doing is inline with their statutory responsibilities seems like a good idea.
To the point of HN: it seems clear from the article that their work on hardening voting systems is not what's being targeted. What is being targeted are alleged coordination activities between government and private industry to silence particular narratives, and similar work that supposedly counters misinformation, work that is questionably within the scope of the agency.
What frightens me are the lessons from history we are so loathe to learn.
That people are more concerned about supposed private "censorship" from splintered private organizations than they are from a single government that is in power, and aspires to maintain power should really give you pause to consider.
And that some want organizations that combat false, misleading information that was proven to be false in hundreds of court case to be restricted from doing that is very worrisome.
> Pausing their work now, while there are no elections occurring, to ensure the work they are doing is inline with their statutory responsibilities seems like a good idea.
Precisely because all of the US election infrastructure is at the state level without meaningful federal or external oversight I think it’s hard to come to a conclusion other than you aren’t going to be able to trust the results from a lot of states precisely because they are run by partisan actors who are now clearly fighting the idea of going to jail once this is over.
Might be worth thinking about some strategies for change that don’t rely on elections.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 32.1 ms ] threadTo the point of HN: it seems clear from the article that their work on hardening voting systems is not what's being targeted. What is being targeted are alleged coordination activities between government and private industry to silence particular narratives, and similar work that supposedly counters misinformation, work that is questionably within the scope of the agency.
That people are more concerned about supposed private "censorship" from splintered private organizations than they are from a single government that is in power, and aspires to maintain power should really give you pause to consider.
And that some want organizations that combat false, misleading information that was proven to be false in hundreds of court case to be restricted from doing that is very worrisome.
I really hope you're being sarcastic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_elections
Might be worth thinking about some strategies for change that don’t rely on elections.