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\u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \u00ad \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wednesday, September 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBy Matt Cohen \u00b7 Senior Reporter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Election deniers\u2019 latest disinformation spin centers on CISA, the nation\u2019s cybersecurity agency. The agency just released its election security plan for the midterms, and it\u2019s not really a remarkable report, but prominent anti-voting activists warped it into some kind of victory for the Trump administration. Also in this week\u2019s Eye on the Right: How Trump could try to take over midterms with an emergency order, our quote of the week comes from a former Trump administration official who doesn\u2019t know what Marxism means, and notes from the twilight zone.\nAs always, thanks for reading.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nIn today\u2019s edition:\n\u27a4 Why the latest CISA election report is a big nothingburger \u27a4 What to know about the risks of a Trump emergency elections order\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anti-voting activists spin a routine report from the nation\u2019s cybersecurity agency into an election integrity win\n Last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its \u201cElection Infrastructure Security Plan.\u201d It\u2019s a rather routine report outlining best practices for states to follow before administering an election.\n\u00a0\nCISA releases one before every election, and this year\u2019s report has nothing new. It includes recommendations for how states can best safeguard their elections from various cybersecurity threats. Among those recommendations are that states use paper ballots for post-election audits, which almost every state already does.\n\u00a0\nDespite being routine, election deniers and anti-voting activists are promoting the report as some sort of Trump administration mandate to restrict voting ahead of the midterms. It\u2019s a fascinating peek into how Trump\u2019s most dedicated allies will spin a nothingburger into a major administration victory \u2014 a different type of disinformation campaign that falls under the radar.\n\u201cPAPER BALLOTS ARE BACK ON THE TABLE,\u201d conservative influencer David Freeman \u2014 who posts online under the pseudonym Gunther Eagleman \u2014 wrote. \u201cThis plan calls for paper ballots you can actually hold and manual audits after Election Day\u2026 That is how a free country runs elections, and it is common sense that should never have been controversial.\u201d Reminder: States have been doing this for years. \nThe Election Integrity Network \u2014 the anti-voting advocacy group run by Trump ally Cleta Mitchell \u2014 also praised the CISA report. \u201cCISA\u2019s new 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan puts a welcome focus on something every voter deserves: results that can be checked,\u201d EIN wrote online. \u201cPaper ballots. Manual Audits. Clear records. That is a common sense direction for election security.\u201d\nEven Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin took to social media to push the false narrative about the CISA report: \u201cThis [CISA] plan, which will be implemented in full, is crucial to the security, freeness, and fairness of choosing the leaders of our country.\u201d\nMeanwhile, the Institute for Responsive Government (IRG), a nonpartisan government watchdog, pointed out that the CISA report is nothing new and doesn\u2019t change anything for the upcoming midterms.\n\u201cThe report summarizes DHS\u2019s and CISA\u2019s approach to safeguarding election infrastructure for the 2026 election,\u201d IRG said in a statement. \u201cThis is not a new program nor does it appear to present new risks \u2014 this report largely repeats existing past CISA programs and identifies some internal structural changes.\u201d\nBut the IRG points out one important fact that the CISA report conveniently left out:\n\u201cMany of CISA\u2019s election experts were fired or left the agency,\u201d IRG said. \u201cCISA\u2019s Acting Director recently announced that the agency is looking to hire additional experts for various cybersecurity purposes, including election security. These new hires can potentially help election officials, but trust between local and state governments and CISA, and DHS more broadly, is currently broken.\u201d\n\u27a4 How did the Trump administration gut CISA? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Quote of the week\n \n \n \n \n \n \u201cMARXFARE\u2122\ufe0f is using the law to try to create a one-party monopoly and thus eventually a one-party dictatorship, just like Communist China has.\u201d\u2014 Jeff Clark\n \n \n \n Jeff Clark, the former DOJ attorney who assisted Trump\u2019s efforts to subvert the 2020 election, coined a new term to explain why Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias\u2019\u00a0efforts to protect voting rights are actually Marxist lawfare. I\u2019m not sure any of these MAGA figures actually know what Marxism means.\u00a0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Check out our members-only section of the website and explore premium newsletters from Marc and the Democracy Docket team.\n \n \n \n \n EXPLORE PREMIUM CONTENT \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nCould Trump take over voting through a \u2018national emergency\u2019? Election deniers want him to try\n For months, prominent election deniers have been calling on Trump to declare a national emergency to take over voting for the midterms.\n\u00a0\nNotable MAGA allies like lawyer and conspiracy theorist Peter Ticktin, far-right commentator Wayne Allyn Root and convicted election denier Tina Peters have all said they pitched the president on their own various plans to wrest control of aspects of voting from the states \u2014 whether it be an emergency executive order or declaring martial law.\n\u00a0\nHere\u2019s what some of them are saying:\nTrump is \u201cgoing to have to declare martial law,\u201d Ticktin said on Root\u2019s show recently. \u201cThat\u2019s the only thing that can happen\u201d for Republicans to win the midterm elections, he proclaimed. Ticktin has been pushing this suggestion based on the debunked conspiracy that machines had been compromised by America\u2019s foreign adversaries, who were colluding with the Democratic Party to rig the midterms.\nTrump called into Root\u2019s show in August, where the TV host pushed the president to use an emergency order to limit mail voting and require proof of citizenship and voter ID to cast a ballot. \u201cLet me just say stranger things have happened,\u201d the president said in response, signaling an openness to such an action. \u201cI\u2019ll leave it at that.\u201d\nPeters, meanwhile, believes Trump can ban all voting machines that use foreign-made components under an executive order he signed in his first term that regulates how information and communication technology developed by foreign adversaries is used domestically.\nHere\u2019s the thing: Any of the moves Trump could make would be blatantly unconstitutional.\n\u201cIf the president were willing to violate the Constitution by purporting to declare a national emergency, or use some other mechanism to try to take over the elections, or postpone or cancel the elections, the first thing that would happen is the states would say, \u2018Good luck with that,\u2019\u201d Center for Election Innovation & Research executive director David Becker told Democracy Docket. \u201cBecause the federal government doesn't run elections.\u201d\n\u201cFederal courts would invalidate any attempts by a president to claim authority to nationalize elections,\u201d Center for American Progress scholars Michael Sozan, Allison McManus and Dan Herman recently wrote. \u201cThe Constitution clearly grants states \u2014 with Congress as a backstop \u2014 the authority to administer elections, which states have done through multiple national emergencies and tests of national sovereignty.\u201d\nBut the fact that the president would so blatantly try to rig voting is a dangerous marker on the state of American democracy: It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution \u2014 which empowers states to run elections \u2014 to prevent his party from losing.\n\u27a4 Why the chatter over a Trump takeover of elections is worrisome \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nNotes from the Twilight Zone\nNew conspiracy dropped: Actually, it was Canada that rigged our 2020 election. \nChad Bianco \u2014 the Riverside, Calif. sheriff who illegally seized ballots last year \u2014 continues to post some truly bonkers commentary on\u2026 LinkedIn, of all platforms.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Today's newsletter was edited by Andrew Wyrich and Zachary Roth, and produced by Leila Fusenig. Learn more about our staff here.",
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