Monitoring vote, Feds say no major problems seen yet

US federal authorities are monitoring voting and any threats to the election across the country at an operations center just outside Washington, DC, run by the cybersecurity component of the Department of Homeland Security.

Officials there says there have been no major problems detected so far today but urge the public to be wary and patient.

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director Christopher Krebs says from the center there are “some early indication of system disruption,” but he does not elaborate. He says he has “confidence that the vote is secure, the count is secure and the results will be secure.”

Krebs says officials have seen attempts by foreign actors “to interfere in the 2020 election.” But he says officials “have addressed those threats quickly” and “comprehensively.”

Krebs says Election Day “in some sense is half-time.”

He says, “There may be other events or activities or efforts to interfere and undermine confidence in the election.” He asks all Americans “to treat all sensational and unverified claims with skepticism and remember technology sometimes fails.”

— AP