The US government says it found no irregularities in the electoral process

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the government entity responsible for overseeing computer systems in the United States, announced Wednesday (9) that it had not detected any wrongdoing during Voting process in the midterm elections performed the day before.

“We have not seen evidence of any voting system that omitted, lost votes, changed votes or was in any way affected during the country’s elections,” CISA Director Jane Easterly said in a statement released on Wednesday.

Easterly explained that election officials are currently counting votes, reviewing procedures and testing computers “as part of a rigorous post-election process”, and that this process could take weeks.

The letter comes in a context of concern that some Republican candidates will question the election result if they are not winners, following in the footsteps of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who still claims victory in the 2020 presidential election.

Although several candidates, such as Arizona Governor Carrie Lake, raised the possibility that the election results would not be accepted, so far no candidate in the already scheduled elections has attempted to discredit the results.

In this context, as of Wednesday afternoon, there are still more than 30% of the votes counted in Arizona, and the election of the state’s governor has not yet been decided in favor of any of the candidates.

In one of the state’s municipalities, Maricopa, A fifth of voting machines reported problems early on election dayalthough the votes have been moved to a counting center where they will be recorded, according to the district’s election official.

Maricopa was already the focus of controversy in the 2020 presidential election, as Democrat Joe Biden beat Republican Donald Trump by 45,000 votes, after votes were counted for a second time and amid baseless allegations of fraud now denounced by the former president.