DHS designates election systems as 'critical infrastructure'(Power Grab)

Hill ^ | 1/6/16 | Katie Bo Williams

[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.

[txhurl]

Purple fingers alone would crash the RATS permanently.

[arthurus]

In this country the plant would just fire all the nonproductive workers. In France it is just about impossible to fire someone. For that reason unemployment stays high. Companies don’t hire unless they absolutely have to hire someone.

[butlerweave]

Is Obama still trying to stay as King ?

[veracious]

Blatant DC devolution into darkness. USG is completely off the rails. They have no power but those enumerated in USConstitution.

[BBell]

I just hope that this is the last of the Obamas, Clintons, and Bushs.

[Major Matt Mason]

There are several candidates to be ash-canned on Day 1 of Trump's presidency, but Johnson has to be near the top of the list.

[time4good]

This indeed will backfire. This gives Trump the backdrop to now require all voter registration from Cali and other Liberal enclaves with tons of Illegals on the registry and then in a few months - a tweet: “Hey Liberals - Per Obama’s restructuring of Voting as Critical Infrastructure - found out that 3.5 Million Illegals voted in Cali and Illinois - well whaddayaknow...” LOL

[Palio di Siena]

Exactly. Obama teed up a reason to get out of the UN.
Now he’s setting up election reform. His own party’s worst nightmare.
But we know that.