The US' top cybersecurity agency said there have been no credible threats to election security or integrity on Tuesday, even as conservatives are raising concerns about hiccups at polling stations.
"When you have 8,800 individual election jurisdictions, you're going to see a few issues," tweeted Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. "We have seen a few of these today as happens every Election Day. It's important that we not make the normal out to be nefarious."
Easterly's warning comes as conservatives have raised questions about election integrity. Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday baselessly claimed that a "large" amount of absentee voter fraud was underway in Detroit, Michigan.
—Jen🛡Easterly (@CISAJen) November 8, 2022
But Easterly said CISA has seen "no activity that should cause anyone to question the security, integrity, or resilience of our election infrastructure."
She later added, "As always, state & local officials are the best sources for information on these types of issues."
In an interview with Insider, US Election Assistance Commission Chairman Thomas Hicks also expressed a "high level of confidence" in the integrity of this election.
Voting rights lawyer Norm Eisen, a former White House special counsel for ethics and government reform during the Obama administration, told Insider he has worked as an election lawyer and analyst on election day every day for two years, and the irregularities he is seeing feel "absolutely normal."
"There will always be a certain number of voting machines that aren't working quite right, polling places that open late or otherwise require extending polling hours and the like," he wrote in an email. "Of course what was different this year is the extraordinary and misinformed suspicion of the election denial movement."
"But considering their scrutiny and hostility, it's amazing things have gone as smoothly as they appear to," he continued. "That's testimony to the vast majority of election workers and voters who support the normal functioning of the system and participate in it, sustaining our democracy."
