They Wanted a Voting Machine Hacked in Secret — While They Gutted the Guardians of Our Elections
New reporting from ProPublica reveals that Trump’s political appointees at Homeland Security asked the nation’s election-security agency to quietly buy a voting machine, break into it, keep the vendor in the dark, and hand the results to the White House. The request went nowhere — partly because the experts who could have done it had already been fired. Fifteen days before the midterms, that is the whole story in miniature: an administration that wants ammunition against elections, not protection for them.
