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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years .

The move represents the first major example of CISA accommodating President Donald Trump ’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

The agency is also cutting off funding for these activities at the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center .

The report will focus on streamlining the election security services that CISA offers to state and local governments.

It is unclear if White House officials or DHS secretary Kristi Noem ordered Bean to launch the investigation.

The January 20 directive does instruct the attorney general to work with other agency leaders to investigate Biden -administration activities that are “inconsistent” with Trump ’s vow to end online censorship.

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