The feds chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for voter fraud

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The federal government’s chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for voter fraud
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The participation of administration officials in the Voter Integrity Fund shows the extent of the efforts by President Trump’s allies to justify his unfounded allegations of widespread ballot fraud.
washingtonpost.com
11:27 AM · Nov 15, 2020

The federal government’s chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for voter fraud

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-voter-integrity-fund/2020/11/15/89986f1c-25fe-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

The federal government’s chief information security officer is participating in an effort backed by supporters of President Trump to hunt for evidence of voter fraud in the battleground states where President-elect Joe Biden secured his election victory.

Camilo Sandoval said in an interview that he has taken a break from his government duties to work for the Voter Integrity Fund, a newly formed Virginia-based group that is analyzing ballot data and cold-calling voters in an attempt to substantiate the president’s outlandish claims about illicit voting.

Sandoval is one of several Trump appointees in the federal government — some in senior roles — who are harnessing their expertise for the project, according to the group’s leader.

The participation of administration officials in the project shows the extent of the efforts by the president’s allies to justify his unfounded allegations of widespread ballot fraud.

Federal employees are required under ethics rules to keep political activity separate from their government roles. Officials with the Voter Integrity Fund said the political appointees participating in the project are doing it in their personal time.

In an interview on Friday, Sandoval defended his involvement in the endeavor as appropriate, saying he had taken vacation time from his government position, which he started last month. He said he was not using any government resources, such as his work computer or cellphone, while searching for fraud.

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[onecaliberal]

1. Maybe it's up his ass.

[woodsprite]

2. Maybe their name if they're working for Trump

Should be VFI (Voter Fraud Implantation). That’s what I’m afraid of - that they’re trying to find a way to “realistically” cook the books.

[pandr32]

3. I heard DT alleges voter fraud was massive

So why do they have to hunt for it?
If DT was toppled by a massive wave of fraud then it should be obvious and everywhere. It would be impossible to ignore.
Instead we find that there is an effort to fine-tooth-comb through voting to look for the slightest irregularity and then use it to justify and represent the massive fraud.

[davekriss]

5. I was thinking the same

It can’t be this hard to find “massive fraud”. It has not been found yet because it doesn’t exist.

[pandr32]

7. It doesn't exist is right

The funds and time we are wasting while an underfunded approach to a pandemic that has so far killed more than a quarter million Americans and disabled countless thousands of others rages on should be criminal.
We need to nail the orange lardship for all of this and take anything he has left--including his freedom to golf for the rest of his miserable days.

[Thekaspervote]

4. Kind of like your older siblings talking about going "snipe" hunting

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. More

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Sandoval said on Friday that he rejoined the government six months ago, taking a post at OMB, where he was promoted last month to chief information security officer.

The post was created by the Obama administration in 2016 with the mission to “drive cybersecurity policy, planning, and implementation across the federal government.” His involvement in the Voter Integrity Fund was first reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Sandoval, {Matthew Braynard, a data specialist who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign} and their team are operating from a cramped apartment that Braynard shares with his wife in northern Virginia. Braynard said the group comprises nine people who are working “campaign hours,” starting at 8 a.m. and going on late into the night, fueled by fast food. ... He has narrated their efforts through a stream of tweets. “Once More, Unto the Breach,” he posted Friday with a photo of several 2016 Trump campaign alumni taking part in the project.

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Braynard began raising money last week on GoFundMe, but his fundraising page was taken down by the platform. GoFundMe did not respond to a request for comment. Politico previously reported that GoFundMe said Braynard’s project “attempts to spread misleading information about the election and has been removed from the platform.”

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Sandoval and other participants in the project are working “campaign hours” out of Braynard’s cramped apartment. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

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Jon Swaine
Jon Swaine joined The Washington Post's investigative team in 2019. He previously worked for the Guardian from 2014 to 2019 and the Daily Telegraph from 2007 to 2014. Follow https://twitter.com/jonswaine

Lisa Rein
Lisa Rein covers federal agencies and the management of government in the Trump adminstration. At The Washington Post, she has written about the federal workforce; state politics and government in Annapolis, and in Richmond; local government in Fairfax County, Va. and the redevelopment of Washington and its neighborhoods. Follow https://twitter.com/Reinlwapo