Precisely because all of the US election infrastructure is at the state level without meaningful federal or external oversight I think it’s hard to come to a conclusion other than you aren’t going to be able to trust the results from a lot of states precisely because they are run by partisan actors who are now clearly fighting the idea of going to jail once this is over.

Might be worth thinking about some strategies for change that don’t rely on elections.

Pausing their work now, while there are no elections occurring, to ensure the work they are doing is inline with their statutory responsibilities seems like a good idea.

To the point of HN: it seems clear from the article that their work on hardening voting systems is not what's being targeted. What is being targeted are alleged coordination activities between government and private industry to silence particular narratives, and similar work that supposedly counters misinformation, work that is questionably within the scope of the agency.