Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf said that his department’s priority on Election Day is ensuring that U.S. voters, not foreign adversaries, decide the elections and that DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency remained on high alert but had seen no evidence that foreign actors have compromised any of the votes cast.
“The Department of Homeland Security has many missions across the national security spectrum, but one of the most important is securing our electoral process, and we take this responsibility seriously because we recognize that protecting and securing elections is fundamental to maintaining a functioning democracy. Recognizing the threats posed to our democratic system, President Trump directed DHS, CISA, and the entire federal government to utilize all the tools we have available to make sure that each American can cast their ballots and know their vote will count,” Wolf said during a short press briefing on Tuesday. “Our top priority at DHS and CISA is to ensure that American voters decide American elections. We believe that it is absolutely critical that our democratic process is free of foreign or undue influence here at home or abroad. That said, we recognize that we face a multitude of foreign interference threats against our election infrastructure. For example, we know that our foreign adversaries, including China, Iran, and Russia, would like nothing more than to manipulate our democratic process for their own benefit. But let me be clear: Our election infrastructure is resilient, and we have no indications that a foreign actor has succeeded in compromising or affecting the actual votes cast in this election.”
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