US move to secure election systems meets criticism

Associated Press ^ | January 9, 2017 | By TAMI ABDOLLAH

[Brad from Tennessee]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A last-minute decision by the Obama administration to designate election systems as critical infrastructure drew intense criticism from state and federal elections organizations on Monday.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced the move Friday with 30 minutes' notice to the National Association of Secretaries of State and U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an independent bipartisan federal agency that develops voluntary voting guidelines and certifies voting systems.

Officials at both agencies are criticizing the department for what they said was a failure to work with state officials to fully answer their questions about the designation before making the change.

"We're having trouble understanding exactly what they're going to do, that we're not already doing," Connecticut Secretary of State Denise W. Merrill, who heads the national secretaries association, told The Associated Press. "States were already doing much of this (security work) themselves using very different products. . ."

[Rashputin]

I hadn't heard of that but if the dye used is of the same sort as the purple dye they use so that it cannot be removed easily and basically has to wear off over time, I like it even better than the purple dye.

Thanks for the info, I'm going to look that up.

Regards

[Candor7]

Every stae issues voter photo ID, and paper ballots required in all states.

That secures the US electoral system.

[Eleutheria5]

Also, you’re states, so everything you do is wrong. Only the federal government is at all competent to do anything. Why, you all were actually not allowing men to marry each other until we stepped in, and just look at what happened at the last election. You allowed Hillary to lose! And Russia to help her lose! We do foreign policy, and only we get to interfere in other countries’ elections.

[Caipirabob]

Shouldn’t these @ssholes be working on their resumes or cruising glory holes?

[rlmorel]

Well, if it is critical infrastructure, one of the key elements to that is security, and one of the key elements of Security is authentication.

Let’s use it to institute Voter ID.

[joegoeny]

Put another way: soros wants more security on [his] election system. There fixed it!

[thinden]

thx for thefix joe..

his election system had a breakdown this year when the light of day was shined on it

[Crucial]

Obama is going for complete usurpation.

[Carry me back]

Its obvious they want to rig the elections. They don’t have the power to do this. Its all a lie.

[Carry me back]

Its obvious they want to rig the elections. They don’t have the power to do this. Its all a lie.