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Related: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/09/15/donald-trumps-2024-attempted-coup/.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/; https://www.reuters.com/world/us/election-officials-who-back-trumps-big-lie-stir-concern-swing-states-2024-10-08/; https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/election-certification-under-threat/; https://www.npr.org/2024/09/12/nx-s1-5100909/fake-electors-trump-electoral-college-vote.

What Donald Trump said on July 27, 2024 before his Turning Point Action audience in relation to elections: “It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians . . . in four years you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

Addendum to Reference from November 11, 2024 and Forward

“Of particular concern is the decentralized nature of America’s election system. There are some 10,000 local voting jurisdictions throughout the U.S., including counties and townships, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Not all of those have funding for new equipment, proper staffing or updated training of election workers. Easterly said it was a priority of her agency to get money and expertise to what she termed “target-rich, cyber-poor” entities”–Jen Easterly, CISA in Alexander, Ayanna. “Security experts warn of foreign cyber threat to 2024 voting.” AP News, February 21, 2023.

“According to monitoring by NSFOCUS Global Threat Hunting System, since July 2024, during the U.S. election period, election-related websites, as well as sponsor websites like SpaceX and Blackstone, have frequently been targeted by DDoS attacks. Attackers have employed botnets and reflection amplification techniques, using various attack methods such as SYN Flood, UDP Flood, NTP reflection, DNS reflection, and CharGEN reflection. The attack infrastructure is primarily concentrated in North America and Europe, regions rich in network resources that are more easily exploited by attackers.” | NSFOCUS. “Behind the 2024 US Election Curtain: Cyberwar’s Silent Sabotage.” November 7, 2024 | https://nsfocusglobal.com/behind-the-2024-us-election-curtain-cyberwars-silent-sabotage/| https://nsfocusglobal.com/behind-the-2024-us-election-curtain-cyberwars-silent-sabotage/.

NSFOCUS’s CEO and COO have degrees from China. Their founding appears dated back to July 2024. I don’t know if they are managing American Federal Government business as contractors.

—“The primary aim is to erode Americans’ faith in democratic institutions and heighten chaos and social division,” Kenton explains, and thus to undermine the ability of the US government to function so it will have less bandwidth to contain adversarial powers.— Atlantic Council. “What to know about foreign Meddling in the US election.” November 5, 2024.

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