Posted on 01/07/2017 4:12:02 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
The Obama administration on Friday afternoon announced that it has designated the country’s election infrastructure as ‘critical,’ a move that brings added federal protections to voting systems.
“Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law,” Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said in a statement.
The administration has been weighing the move for some time. The announcement coincides with a report from the Intelligence Community detailing its assessment that Russia undertook a widespread influence and cyber campaign targeted at helping Donald Trump win the White House.
The Intelligence Community said Friday that no voting machines were tampered with during the 2016 election — but the breadth of the Russian cyber activity throughout the campaign raised the specter that the election infrastructure is vulnerable to digital intruders. The IC did find that Russian intruders breached elements of multiple state and local electoral boards.
The new designation will cover storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulations locations used to support the election process, as well as information and communications technology like voter registration databases, voting machines and other systems used to manage the election process and report results.
Some state and local election officials have expressed strong opposition to applying the designation in the past, arguing that it is a federal overreach.
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Jeh Johnson is a JIVE ASS TURKEY!!!
What's that PRESIDENT TRUMP is on the way, and we will WIN and never hear about obama again.
OH Happy Day!!! Clinton and obama in JAIL.
The stupidity of Obama is hard to believe.
This will backfire as bad as Reid’s imposition of the nuclear option.
It’s not like Trump is going to keep Jeh Johnson.
This could be the perfect vehicle - along with a scotus pick to accomplish election reform.
There we go. All voting machines will be "monitored" from DC on Election Day to make sure that another uncompromised candidate like Trump -- or maybe Trump himself in four years -- doesn't wreck the carefully laid plans of TPTB.
Federal protection... or a nose under the tent for Federal interference?
Weren’t we assured before the election that all was safe, because DHS was on the case? Then we were told that DHS tried to hack into the election computers of several states, particularly Georgia. Was this part of Federal protection? Or, was it attempted Federal interference?
I certainly expect so.
Did anyone ever get the impression that Jeh Johnson has a mouthful of something distasteful?
So in the next 1 days is DHS going to declare that the Elections were Compromised and everything is On Hold while there is a DHS investigation that might last many months?
Trump cleans house after the 20th if Hussein doesn’t manage to burn the house down in the remaining days.
Maybe a standard set of procedures and non Soros voting machines could be “Recommended” to states with a funding incentive and procedures would include a court test voter ID
Be careful what you wish for because you may get more than you bargained for.
Gee, who knows, Republican may starting winning the popular vote also.
DNC voter fraud protection department?
Name one positive thing that DHS has done.
Anyone?
Shut it down.
The long tentacles of the structures established by the Patriot Act continue to be exploited by weasel word master politicians and lawyers.
Just make Hussein the Dean of the Electoral College.
Jeh you ignorant dope.
Yeah, but had to wait for the election results before doing anything.
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