Wisconsin gov. Scott Walker activates the National Guard to protect elections - Polidicks

https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-matters/scott-walker-authorizes-national-guard-to-help-with-election-cybersecurity/article_a0a9c031-4b03-558c-9689-9cae2404ff26.html An executive order authorizing the Wisconsin National Guard to assist with elections, if needed, was not issued in response to any specific threat, Gov. Scott Walker and election officials said Friday. The National Guard is available as a resource to the Wisconsin Elections Commission if problems arise on Election Day, the state's chief elections official said on a call with reporters. "The National Guard and (Adjutant) General (Donald) Dunbar have been just fantastic in helping us navigate the world of homeland security. We welcome their input," said elections administrator Meagan Wolfe. The Elections Commission did not request the order from Walker, Wolfe said, but the commission works closely with the Guard on training and preparedness for cybersecurity issues. WEC spokesman Reid Magney said the Guard could also offer assistance if a natural disaster were to affect access to a polling place. The order was requested by the state Department of Military Affairs and is the first of its kind, said Walker spokeswoman Amy Hasenberg. The order authorizes the state's "Adjutant General to call to state active duty such elements of the Wisconsin National Guard as the Adjutant General deems necessary to provide essential services to the Wisconsin Elections Commission." "You will not see anything different at the polling places. The National Guard will not have a presence at our polling places," Wolfe said. The Elections Commission announced last year that Russian actors had targeted the state Department of Workforce Development in 2016, in what was believed to be an effort to identify vulnerabilities that could assist in targeting elections systems. Wisconsin's Division of Enterprise Technology prevented Russian hackers from breaching the state's systems on two separate occasions.

That sounds like a pretty fantastic idea, it's nice to hear they're taking election security seriously and pulling available resources to do so

It sounds good, but I don't know if the Guardsmen are knowledgeable on cybersecurity. Also I just don't trust Walker, the guy with stories like this https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/it-took-3-different-court-orders-for-scott-walker-to-finally-hold-constitutionally-required-elections/ After months of delay and Republican attempts to defy court orders, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker finally agreed to schedule special elections to fill vacant two state legislative seats. The primaries will be May 15 and the general elections June 12. The Republican leaders of the state legislature also dropped plans to convene a special session to change Wisconsin law and cancel the elections.

Thank god, last election the local isis terrorist was holding guns to people's heads yelling akhbar if we sledcted democrat.

The Guard would have Cybersecurity soldiers meant for it but the National Guard isn't active duty and if they're anything like the Marine Reserves (and no offense to FP Guardsmen, from everything I've heard they're quite worse), then they're generally only going to have basic knowledge unless they also do it civilian side.

The war on voting begins.

It's starting to look a lot like christmas. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/237427/941ae60f-9f3a-401b-b7b0-aabef2dcb368/image.png

this is to push the notion of the left wing mob

At least we can fall back to the paper ballots if we need to. There are electronic voting machines, but they all have paper trails. I voted in person absentee on a new election machine where it prints your choices out completely on the form you fill out when you get there and then you throw it in the envelope and drop it in the box.