LISA MONACO TESTIFIES ON RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTIONS

"In any discussion of the problems in our world today, racism must rank high. Not because we are soft-minded liberals obsessed with countless crimes throughout history induced by colour, religion, tribalism or chauvinism of one kind or another. But because the poison which we hoped and believed had been eradicated in our own time by the knowledge of the ultimate evil- the gas-chamber murders committed by the Nazis--is in fact still present, not in any one area of discrimination or racism, or in a restricted number of specific rulers or governments, but in all humankind. I call it "Inner Racism."-

Gitta Sereny, "The Healing Wound"

Friday, October 9, 2020

LISA MONACO TESTIFIES ON RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTIONS

Well, one of the things I was worried about —

and I wasn’t alone in this—

is kind of worst-case scenarios,

which would be things like the voter registration

databases.

So if you’re a state and local entity

and your voter registration database

is housed in the secretary of state’s office

and it is not encrypted and its not backed up,

and it says Lisa Monaco lives at Smith Street

and I show up at my (polling place) and they say,

“Well we don’t have Ms Monaco at Smith Street,

we have her at Green Street,”

now there’s a difficulty in my voting.

And if that were to happen on a large scale,

I was worried about confusion at

polling places,

lack of confidence in the voting system,

anger

at a large scale in some areas,

confusion,

distrust.

So there was a whole

sliding

scale

horribles

just when you’re talking

about voter registration

databases.

---- statement by former Homeland Security adviser, Lisa Monaco to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election