How Government and a 501(c)3 Tracks Real-Time Election Data in 98% of the US – Put Into Effect by DHS After Trump Won in 2016

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If the Federal government lied about their censorship, what other election initiatives are they lying about?

"Let’s look at their program created to gain access to local election data.

Around 2011 DHS created their own intrusion detection system called the ALBERT Sensor. It’s part of the larger Einstein System that protects federal agencies from cyber risks. ALBERT is a “black box” server installed on a County’s network. It collects the traffic flowing on their election network and transmits this data to a nonprofit in NY. DHS selected this non-profit to monitor all the election data from across the United Sates. It is analyzed around the clock with the hope they can alert jurisdictions if they find any malicious traffic on their network. Few election networks had the system before 2016."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/alberts-systems/

"DHS Director Jeh Johnson designated our elections as “critical infrastructure” just 14 days before Trump was sworn in. This petty move gave the left more weapons over elections. DHS then needed a command center for elections. So a collaboration was formed between the 501(c)3 nonprofit Center for Internet Security (CIS), the DHS cyber security unit CISA, and the Election Infrastructure Government Council (EIS-GCC). All three receive DHS funding. But DHS tasked only the nonprofit CIS to run the new Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). CTO Brian Calkin said “EI-ISAC was officially kicked off in March of 2018”.

The EI-ISAC monitoring center run by CIS is in a wooded rural area of East Greenbush, NY. It has roughly 300 employees and a $51mil annual budget funded by Congress (DHS). As we mentioned before, County election data from nearly the entire U.S. goes to NY in real time. It is monitored 365 days a year."

 

"Weeks after installing ALBERT, Lincoln County, WA was hit with a ransomware attack. The ALBERT system and CIS never alerted Lincoln about the initial intrusions. They were not alerted about the hack either, from a well known ransomware group. Okanogan County, WA was also hacked, and was not notified by CIS. County Commissioners of neighboring Ferry County, with roughly 7,000 total citizens, voted to stop using ALBERT. They canceled their contract and removed the devices. In a bizarre twist, NPR sprang into action and ran two attack stories targeting Ferry County and staff. NPR wanted to intimidate anyone else from cancelling ALBERT.

Why was this so important to NPR? Who influenced NPR to attack Ferry, one of the smallest counties in America? Why was the Democrat Secretary of State in WA pleading with the counties to install and keep the ALBERT Sensors? Nancy Churchill (R) explains more in her excellent article, and in this WhoCountsTheVotes piece. Nancy is the State Committeewoman for Ferry County Republicans. Ferry Commissioner Nathan Davis, who has an IT background, said “It’s scanning everything we do on our network and it sends it to a 3rd party. Why the hard push (to install ALBERT)? What are the true motivations to push so hard on something that really doesn’t do a lot”?"

"Counties are pressured into using ALBERT, then kept in the dark. These factors, coupled with the fact it’s free, means County staff have little interest in it’s success."