Posted on 01/08/2017 9:25:46 PM PST by Lorianne
In a stunning last minute power grab by the Obama administration with just 14 days left in his Presidency, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement this evening officially declaring state election systems to be "critical infrastructure." The statement from DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson defines "election infrastructure" as "storage facilities, polling places, centralized vote tabulations locations, voter registration databases, voting machines" and all "other systems" to manage the election process...so pretty much everything.
I have determined that election infrastructure in this country should be designated as a subsector of the existing Government Facilities critical infrastructure sector. 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.
I have reached this determination so that election infrastructure will, on a more formal and enduring basis, be a priority for cybersecurity assistance and protections that the Department of Homeland Security provides to a range of private and public sector entities. By “election infrastructure,” we mean storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulations locations used to support the election process, and information and communications technology to include voter registration databases, voting machines, and other systems to manage the election process and report and display results on behalf of state and local governments.
Of course, it's likely not a coincidence that the DHS made this announcement just hours after the "intelligence community" declassified their "Russian Hacking" propaganda which basically noted that RT has a very effective social media distribution platform while once again providing absolutely no actual evidence.
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How about a pen pineapple apple pen?😆
You nervous?
It doesn’t matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes.
His handpicked successor lost... Stompy foot gotta stomp...best elecshun evah! ...
Here’s a thought DNC- DO NOT DO ANYTHING that the russians or any other nation can expose- then you won’;t have anything to worry about now will you?
maybe trump can reverse it but then that gives the dems the wailing cry of “Trump doesn’t want the elections to be fair and balanced- and doesn’t care about security during elections’
Which they dems WILL exploit to the fullest- whining about it constantly- it’ll become another ‘throw granny off the cliff’ slogan
trump wont care and none of’us’will.
hes gonna destroy this whole fake russian meme bs.
Jeh has no authority. Neither does the federal govt
Exactly.
Isn’t voting a state controlled thing.
Some states have winner take all and some don’t.
Great, that means Trump’s people will have full access to all voting systems in liberal $hithole states/cities. Time to purge the voter rolls of the dead.
That’s what this is all about.
I would like President Trump’s first EO, signed a minute after inauguration, to read something like “All of poser’s EOs are caca and are hereby rescinded...”
Does that make it a Federal crime to mees with them?
Nah
“Google’s having to clean the whole web of incriminatory evidence right now. “
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/253241/cia-chief-john-brennan-deceptions-about-islam-raymond-ibrahim
No undoing. Instead Trump writes an EO requiring Voter ID, which now would be across the land. In 2024, only then all is cancelled.
You must learn to screw Dems with own rules.
Hit that UNACCOMPLISHED, BIG LEAGUE CON-ARTIST'S weak-spinning curve right back up the middle and knock him off the mound and out of the game forever.
GO TRUMP GO! (jogging to 1st base)
And, most importantly, blue or red ink that cannot be washed off the finger for at least one week.
Let’s be serious. We all know what he’s up to. They will have Federal access to all the state’s votes and results, ran by the party of electoral fraud. The secondary thing will be availability to see individual votes, so they can punish businessmen, etc. for their voting record, and reward the ones who see things their way.
It’ll never last.
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