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Jeh Johnson, the homeland-security secretary, was responsible for finding out whether the government could quickly shore up the security of the nation’s archaic patchwork of voting systems. He floated the idea of designating state mechanisms “critical infrastructure,” a label that would have entitled states to receive priority in federal cybersecurity assistance, putting them on a par with U.S. defense contractors and financial networks.

Here is the real Democrat aim of all this nonsense... they cannot succeed in impeaching trump but they do have some hope of duping people into supporting a federal takeover of the elections process through the usual means of federal takeovers of everything including highways and schools and environmental regs-- federal subsidies/funding of local and state elections to make local and state officials dependent on the central government for money.

This really WILL undermine the one thing that makes it difficult to rig a presidential election... our "archaic patchwork." that "archaic patchwork" makes it very difficult because it is not centralized- there's no cheap quick way to push a button or hack a computer and change thousands upon thousands of votes. To rig it requires an enormous investment of time and labor on the order of ACORN sized and funded organizations. For security, the more archaic the better.

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Article even admits Jeh Johhnson's job was pointless and that archaic patchwork serves a purpose :

The patchwork nature of the United States’ 3,000 or so voting jurisdictions would make it hard for Russia to swing the outcome, but Moscow could still sow chaos.