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*** Camilo Sandoval, the recently appointed federal chief information security officer, is on leave from his job to help a group allied with President Donald Trump's re-election campaign to use data to support unsubstantiated claims made by Trump and others that there was widespread voter fraud. The Washington Post first reported the story.

*** A federal district court judge in New York ruled that the appointment of Acting Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf was not done lawfully and that therefore actions made under his tenure were exercised under legal authority. The ruling came in a long-running case challenging changes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program giving legal status to some undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The court ruling tracks with a similar determination by the Government Accountability Office.

*** Nominations for the 2021 Fed 100 are now being accepted. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31.