FBI Sacramento Reminds Public About ‘Election Security and Malign Foreign Influence’ in Advance of 2020 General Election
This is a press release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Sacramento Field Office is reminding the public about election security information resources and how to report alleged election crimes ahead of the November 3, 2020, general election. The FBI is continually coordinating national messaging about election security on fbi.gov/elections and across its social media platforms. The FBI’s goal is to increase public awareness and to inform Americans how they can help ensure a safe and secure election.
For decades, the FBI has served as the primary law enforcement agency investigating federal election crimes. This includes investigating allegations of voter and ballot fraud, campaign finance crimes, civil rights violations, unique cyber threats targeting the election process, and threats posed by foreign governments and actors. The FBI is also the lead federal agency for identifying and combating malign foreign influence operations targeting our democratic institutions through the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF). The FITF brings together all FBI authorities and capabilities from multiple divisions to include counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and counterterrorism assets to coordinate and work together to combat the threat.
“Every American should be free to vote without interference or discrimination and have their vote count,” said Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan, who leads the FBI Sacramento Field Office. “The FBI is committed to ensuring safe, secure elections and thwarting the actions of any foreign actors who may attempt to influence our elections for their own political or national interests. Our office continues to engage with law enforcement partners and election security officials to ensure the security of our national elections and preservation of this important civic right.”
Each state has primary responsibility for conducting free and fair elections within its borders. The FBI Sacramento Field Office serves communities located in 34 of California’s 58 counties and is in continuous contact with election partners including the California Secretary of State, Justice Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and other agencies. Together, we stand ready to investigate federal election crimes, identifying and assessing potential threats, and to protecting the public’s constitutional right to vote.
If you have information about allegations of federal election crimes, voter fraud, or vote suppression, please contact the FBI by calling the FBI Sacramento Field Office by dialing 916-746-7000 or making an electronic report at tips.fbi.gov.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Sacramento Field Office is reminding the public about election security information resources and how to report alleged election crimes ahead of the November 3, 2020, general election. The FBI is continually coordinating national messaging about election security on fbi.gov/elections and across its social media platforms. The FBI’s goal is to increase public awareness and to inform Americans how they can help ensure a safe and secure election.
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//For decades, the FBI has served as the primary law enforcement agency investigating federal election crimes.// Yeah, we know.
You’ll check-out complaints after the fact, but you can see the speeding trainwreck at the precipice of an invalid upcoming election. Why not do police work and prevent disaster?
Elementary school age children are taught how to vote safely.
When the unionized postal employees are finished handling our ballots, no 4th grader would accept the count as correct. It’s criminal, not politics.
How would a postal employee tamper with a sealed ballot envelope?
Same as anyone, lose ’em or move ’em. Any thing possible to change the count.
Surely you’re not attempting to say the US Postal Service can be trusted to deliver 100% of the 140,000,000 ballots on time and in proper place.
I will go on record here and now – there’s one 1 (only one) way to secure your vote and ballot – cast your vote in person. Why? 5% of all mailed ballots do in fact get cancelled. Almost 3 million American votes won’t get handled in a trustworthy manner.
Not a bad point Rod but considering the circumstances and all it is a better option for some. And if a few don’t get counted it may not make a huge difference (let’s be honest)
I think we should have a federal holiday for national votes once every two years so working class people with families and a busy life can get out there and vote consistently. Other countries do that, why can’t we?
I agree.
A voters’ national holiday would be fine by me. Treat the election day as something of gigantic importance. Maybe even, god forbid, require American citizens to cast a valid vote.
Imagine the good-will and cost savings involved. We’ve got at this moment a mess of undoable proportions.
My daughter just got her ballot, but she hasn’t even lived or voted in California for 6 yrs….. But hey no worries about bogus votes in Cali……
Did she notify the county elections office when she moved? Im going to say no. Almost all of the people who report getting an extra ballot did not inform them when they moved away. They are not mind readers, and it is the voters’ responsibility to give them correct info before the elections..
Until this year there was almost no reason to notify a state office. If a person moved, they simply registered where they now lived. No one would have just up and mailed a ballot before to someone who hadn’t requested it and there would have been much fewer requested absentee ballots for people who have moved to start with. This is a fiasco of incompetence that is going to be a mess for years.
The State has not yet finished the court ordered purging of its voter rolls. And that’s just the start of the problems.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/20/calif_begins_removing_5_million_inactive_voters_on_its_rolls__140602.html#!
The previous resident of my house died 15 years ago, I still get her ballot. I have returned to sender at least 5 times over that period.
Seamus, You have to call the elections office, not just send it back. It can’t be counted without an exact signature match, so no chance of it being used anyway..
Why would it be a requirement to call. Getting a ballot back labeled ‘not at this address’ would seem pretty clear.
They check the signature like the bank ,credit card recipients and so on , if you believe that then these wildfires are definitely due to climate change.
dissing Hillary and Making America Great Again seems effective at keeping his base but it lost the Moderates. that and his name calling at his rallies will be why he will lose. in a nutshell, trump was a mistake.
Failure to recognize how the system works is everyone’s mistake.
Baloney. The left has moved so far left it left most of the country.
Okay.
Post an image of the ballot with the name clearly shown.
Gonna vote for caca or poopoo? Good morning!
“Every American should be free to vote without interference or discrimination and have their vote count,” apparently as often as they want and with whosoever ballot they want and where ever they live.
the signature on your mail in ballot needs to match the one on your driver’s license exactly. I have a hard time doing that after converting to a doctors scribble years ago and therefore have to vote in person if i want my vote counted. this year i am looking forward to voter intimidation and pressing charges upon said intimidator. most trump supporters don’t like history so i expect this year to be fun.
You mean Dems intimidation, they are the only ones in California intimidating anyone…..
Baloney. The left has moved so far left it left most of the country.
Does that mean California left?
Yeah bro. We’re almost to Hawaii already.
Yes. Under the circumstances the upcoming election should be pre-awarded to: Drum roll-oll-oll-oll… DONALD Jitterbean trump! Why? Just because. That’s why. No other reason needed.
🕯🌳What about local interference, it’s the GOP in California already been caught putting out false ballot boxes.
There is no such thing as “illegal” vote boxes as the minute California allowed third party ballot submission AB 1921, which the Democrats used to defeat their opponents in the next election by going door to door to collect ballots, they opened up the whole can of worms. It’s a lousy practice but passing stupid laws has stupid results.
🕯🌳Its been National news for three days as well as world news.
FBI needs to examine their own house first and the liars in top positions in the recent past under oath.
the major attempt to discredit social media is not because of trump and his tweets nor even the media or misinformation, its because social media detects right wing domestic terrorist group plans to commit terror several days to even weeks before the actual terror event and it seems they don’t like that. same thing going on in Europe and the UK right now. welcome to the 21th century and enjoy the cookies.
Another conspiracy theory grips the left.
You mean like the censorship of doctors and nurses, and anyone else who speak out against the controlled take down of the independent livelihoods across the world.
You just have to recognize the corporations are antithetical to the individuals mindset.
@ Kym
1 meme per user right?
Toss this crap please.
Removed all three.
Please name the “liars in top positions” within the FBI.
you are a perfect example of why you must wait 30 minutes before responding to a troll. but it doesn’t change my response.
Scarcely mentioned, however, is Andrew Giuliani—the former New York mayor’s 31-year-old son—who works in the White House.
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Rudy Giuliani told me his son’s hire “wasn’t the usual ‘hire my kid’ situation.” “He’s known the president since he was a baby,” Rudy said. “Now, did he know him in the first place because he was the mayor’s son? Sure, but they also had a relationship independent of me.”
The younger Giuliani has served in the Office of Public Liaison, beginning as an associate director, since March 2017, making him one of the longest-serving members of the Trump administration.
According to White House personnel records from 2018, he earns a salary of $90,700.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/11/andrew-giuliani-white-house/602110/
The chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50. – Rudy Giuliani
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-says-theres-only-5050-chance-i-worked-with-a-russian-spy-to-dig-dirt-on-bidens
Now, with Derkach jumping in with claims of a “second laptop,” that would mean private computer contents allegedly connected to Hunter Biden have somehow found their way into the hands of three separate parties:
-A media empire controlled by a Chinese billionaire who’s tight with Steve Bannon;
– a random Delaware shop owner who is outspoken in his support of Trump;
-and Derkach, a Ukrainian conspiracy theory peddler who studied at Moscow’s FSB academy.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudys-russian-agent-pal-teases-second-laptop-with-hunter-biden-kompromat
That’s odd I click a link that’s supposed to be a new comment from Kym but the only new comment is really from TRB.
I replied to TRB and then on further examination realized that the original comment from W.H. needed to be deleted.
PS Kym, I tried to edit out the “crap” remark, but could not because of connectivity issues.
Tried to clean up the complaint. Thank you for addressing it.
No, like encouraging voters to vote twice, or welcoming foreign meddling.
DQ Here’s some
Quote from
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/08/35-key-people-involved-russia-hoax-need-investigated/
FBI People
Gregory Brower was Jim Comey’s FBI congressional liaison, and left the agency in 2018. Brower was in Comey’s inner circle, and like many in Comey’s inner circle, Brower played the game of claiming things were classified when they were not, in order to label Republican investigators as leakers and hide how the FBI used the “dossiers.” Brower was called out by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham for that.
Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer, wrote anti-Trump texts with former top FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. According to the Washington Times, Clinesmith “worked on the 2016 probe into Hillary Clinton’s email use [known as Mid-Year-Exam], then worked on the FBI’s original investigation into the Trump campaign [known as Crossfire Hurricane] and, eventually, with the special counsel’s investigation into Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.”
But Clinesmith, like Strzok, was let go from Mueller’s investigative team once his anti-Trump texts were uncovered by the FBI inspector general (IG), who is tasked with uncovering wrongdoing at the FBI. “Viva le resistance,” Clinesmith said in one text.
Joseph Pientka, an FBI official,was the go-between for Fusion GPS and the FBI. Pientka interviewed Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr on at least 12 occasions, who passed on the information Ohr’s wife Nellie (who worked for Fusion GPS) was receiving from Christopher Steele (who also worked for Fusion GPS), and who was using Edward Baumgartner, a British national with ties to Moscow, to compile the dossier for the Clinton campaign.
Steele was originally the direct FBI source, despite his ties to the Clinton campaign through Fusion GPS, but when Steele was caught leaking to the media to paint Trump as a Russian stooge just before the election, official FBI rules said that Steele’s use as an FBI source had to be discontinued. The FBI top brass worked around these rules, which are in place to prevent this very kind of abuse, by using Pientka to interview Ohr, who was getting his information from Steele.
Pientka also played a role in the interview of former Trump national security advisor Mike Flynn, where Pientka and Strzok interviewed Flynn, and Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials (including former deputy attorney general Sally Yates) used that interview to entrap Flynn for a completely non-nefarious conversation with the Russian ambassador. The pretext for the interview was the Logan Act, a 200-year old law that has never led to a conviction and is probably unconstitutional. Plus, it is violated by every incoming administration, as they seek to begin conducting foreign policy during the transition period.
All Flynn did was talk to the Russian ambassador and try to get Russia to not retaliate against sanctions Obama placed on Russia right before leaving the White House, and to not allow an anti-Israel vote at the United Nations. The Obama administration was going to allow this vote in the final days of Obama’s presidency, an unprecedented move.
Although Flynn was never charged with violating the Logan Act, he was later charged with lying to the FBI investors sent to interview him, under the pretext of a possible Logan Act violation—even though the agents didn’t think he was lying at the time, and even though the FBI had wiretapped access to the record of Flynn’s conversation with the Russian ambassador.
What happened to Flynn is a disgrace, and a total perversion of our justice system. And it is just one example in the dangerous trend of the left using our justice system to take out political opponents, where Democrat politicians point out a target or a supposed crime, and the federal bureaucracy dutifully moves into action.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/08/35-key-people-involved-russia-hoax-need-investigated/
end of quote
Kevin Clinesmith has already plead guilty
and there is plenty more here
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/08/35-key-people-involved-russia-hoax-need-investigated/
https://kymkemp.com/2020/10/18/fbi-sacramento-reminds-public-about-election-security-and-malign-foreign-influence-in-advance-of-2020-general-election/#comment-1198309
And:
“…. together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office.” – Caroline Guliani
https://people.com/politics/rudy-giuliani-daughter-backs-joe-biden/
Some of these comments are hilarious. Like people don’t realize Google exists and anyone can instantly call out the bullshit
These guys/gals think posting links to crap like the Federalist is somehow not fake news. Just look it up on Wikipedia.
Exactly what I did. The guy who runs it is a liar and a racist. Also pushed by the likes of Mark Levin
For some people a blindfold goes well with their mask.
Coming next, cotton balls for the ears, provided by google….
When they are done censoring the right will they come for left?
Oh No, not Mark Levin….just imagine someone who believes in the Constitution daring to have an opinion….that’s just not going to work for the Anti Semitics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin
The amount of terribly bad information that you post, combined with the amount of posts you make per hour, per day, brings into question what you really do for a living, and your ultimate goals here.
Most people posting endless links and diatribes in the mode of Hot Coffee are on govt disability or unemployable for other reasons.
I can see that with many commentors, however the insistence of using such bad sources to ascert such false positions is dubious.
It’s not hard to admit your wrongs.
Some seem to want to push wrong as right, knowingly so.
Hold on now big guy.
On this and almost all other sites of opinion, “knowingly” disappears right before our eyes.
The science and religion sites are better at it.
Opinions sites, when scaled against the absolute of right/wrong approval, couldn’t survive. There’s no fun in that.
To me, it’s easier to rationalize everyone’s, especially my own, comments as entertainment. The struggle to be right can be too, too difficult.
Don’t forget the massive incentive to actually believe this stuff. Most of these folks have failed at life by the usual measures. Believing this stuff and foisting it upon others is what makes them feel like they are special or significant in some way. This way, they’re not bored, lonely, paranoid, semi-literate schmucks, sitting around reading articles on the internet. They’re actually enlightened patriots. They’re doing important “research” that elevates them above the “sheeple.” They’re not clerics of idiocy, they’re warriors of truth who are going to save children from the bad people. This is an escape from reality.
You’re right, I did forget all that.
Good reminder, thanks!
https://medium.com/@donlewis_24471/rudy-giuliani-shady-money-issues-subpoenas-ex-pierce-bainbridge-client-under-fire-1c5565775f63
I used to live in a place where the only radio I could get was kmud, khsu, keka, & kins. I listened to everything rush, levin, Hannity, bongino, etc had to say. While I don’t disagree with everything they say and appreciate hearing all sides of the argument. Mostly what those people have to say is slanted garbage
And nice job tossing around anti semetic. I could care less what ethnicity levin is. He’s a fucking angry windbag
As much as I don’t like the Federalist or their biases, they have well written articles. I don’t read their stories much at all, but when I have they seem to check their sources. I would not call them fake news just because I don’t agree with them. For me, at least, that would be dishonest. The NY Times has as strong a bias in the opposite direction, and I’ve seen them contort to that bias often.
Joe and Donald got this sheetshow wrapped up,can’t believe America couldn’t come up with anyone better, truly pathetic , just like this pandemic, pathetic
🕯🌳I’ll second that.
I’ll support you seconding that
I’d like to report someone tampering with the election. Don’t know his name, but he’s kinda heavy-set, and always wears orange make-up. See him on TV all the time.
It’s a statistical anomaly to actually realize how irrelevant the national narrative truly is, until we look at our own cognitive dissonance.
This country, probably the world , is run by psychological manipulation, multiplied by an unimaginable of technological advances that keep us trapped in a horribly abusive relationship.
How relevant is opting out of the fairy tale?
It’s everything, or it should be.
My generation of young adults opted out when we saw, honestly, how counterproductive our society was. But that was 1965.
If I were 16 today in 2020, I’m certain that I would make the same choice.
I voted today. I wrote in Dwayne Elizondo M.D. Herbert Camacho. I felt he was the option that most mirrored our times. He is the most corporate of any of the candidates and would probably kiss the ass of both Russia and China, even if they put no invitation to do so, but at least he doesn’t try to hide it. I would have voted for Vermin Supreme for VP as well but we didn’t get that opportunity.
It was important to me to vote for the props..
I agree. Candidate Camacho truly embodies the corporatist mindset we all should strive for. I mean the m.d. has nothing to do with a medical degree, and all about mountain dew. Who can’t get behind that? And he’s got this guy- Not Sure, that’s gonna fix all our problems. He’s gonna get the crops to grow and fix the economy. Just as soon as he gets done with his Monday Night Rehabilitation.
United Corporations of America! Go Carl’s Jr!