Thread by @BlueGirlsRule, Ivanka gets patents on voting machines in China. Mitt Romney’s family invested [...]

Ivanka gets patents on voting machines in China. Mitt Romney’s family invested in voting machines in 2012. How is there not a law banning politicians and their families from owning or investing in voting machine/software companies?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/

Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election Causing...

(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) It’s 3:00 a.m. on November 7, 2012. With the painfully close presidential election now down to who wins the battleground state of Ohio, no network dares to...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/

http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-investment-in-voting-machines-2012-10

Here's The Truth About The Story About The Romneys Investing In The Company That Makes The Voting...

http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-investment-in-voting-machines-2012-10

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-ivanka-idUSKCN1NB0TL

China grants more trademark approvals for Ivanka Trump firm - including voting machines

China last month granted initial approval for 16 new trademarks for the fashion brand of U.S. President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka, including voting machines, a search of official...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-ivanka-idUSKCN1NB0TL

US Election Insecurity

Trump blocks bill to strengthen election protections
https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/white-house-blocks-bill-to-strengthen-election-protections/

GOP Blocks Money for Election Security
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/01/republicans-block-money-election-security/884438002/

Trump Eliminates Cyber Security Czar: Rattles Experts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-decision-eliminate-role-cybersecurity-czar-rattles-experts-here-n874731

White House blocks bill to strengthen election protections

A bipartisan bill that would have beefed up the nation’s defenses against election meddling has been held up in the Senate at the request of the White House, which opposed the proposed law, a new

https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/white-house-blocks-bill-to-strengthen-election-protections/

Trump Guts Homeland Security Task Forces Protecting Elections from Foreign Meddling
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections-from-foreign-meddling

How the Election Assistance Commission Came Not to Care So Much About Election Security
https://www.propublica.org/article/election-assistance-commission-came-not-to-care-so-much-about-election-security

Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections

‘It’s very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,’ one Homeland Security official tells The Daily Beast.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections-from-foreign-meddling

McConnell blocks debate on election security...in committees charged with overseeing it. https://twitter.com/barbstudebaker/status/1129920245353738240?s=21

https://twitter.com/barbstudebaker/status/1129920245353738240?s=21

Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States.

Remote-access software and modems on election equipment 'is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.

2018
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

https://twitter.com/BlueGirlsRule/status/1234361573063348224?s=20

https://twitter.com/BlueGirlsRule/status/1234361573063348224?s=20

The Federal Election Commission, who enforces campaign finance laws, has been effectively shut down since September 2019.
#ElectionSecurity https://publicintegrity.org/politics/federal-election-commission-fec-to-effectively-shut-down/

Federal Election Commission to effectively shut down. Now what? – Center for Public Integrity

Vacancies mean agency can’t carry out numerous responsibilities as elections loom

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/federal-election-commission-fec-to-effectively-shut-down/

GOP Senators remove ban on foreign interference from election bill.

6.30.2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/senate-removes-ban-foreign-election-help/index.html

Senate strips provision from intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help

The Senate will incorporate the annual intelligence policy legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act -- but only after stripping language from the intelligence bill that would have...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/senate-removes-ban-foreign-election-help/index.html

2/2020

Lawmakers are warned Russia is interfering in US elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html

3/2020

Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump

A classified briefing to House members is said to have angered the president, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html

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