US Official Focused on Election Security Being Removed From Job

The head of a federal agency who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyberattacks by Russia or others is being removed from his post by Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House. Matthew Masterson, currently chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and a former Ohio state official, has been passed over for a second four-year term as one of the agency's four commissioners, according to sources familiar with the...

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