Horror as Trump aides’ ‘mind boggling’ secret voting machine hack request revealed

Political appointees in the Trump administration asked the federal agency that protects U.S. elections to secretly hack a voting machine, a request that raised alarms Monday after it came to light.According to a report from ProPublica, Homeland Security political appointees asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, last year to acquire a voting machine, hack it and report the findings so they could be given to the White House. The agency was also directed not to alert the machine’s manufacturer if it found flaws, contrary to its standard practices, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request.“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials told ProPublica. “This goes against everything CISA represents.”“Mind boggling,” wrote cybersecurity analyst Alexis Rapin Monday in a social media post on X.The request was never...