“A bill that would have significantly bolstered the nation’s defenses against electoral interference has been held up in the Senate at the behest of the White House, which opposed the proposed legislation,” Yahoo News reports. “As it currently stands, the legislation would grant every state’s top election official security clearance to receive threat information. It would also formalize the practice of information-sharing between the federal government—in particular, the Department of Homeland Security—and states regarding threats to electoral infrastructure. A technical advisory board would establish best practices related to election cybersecurity.” “Perhaps most significantly, the law would mandate that every state conduct a statistically significant audit following a federal election. It would also incentivize the purchase of voting machines that leave a paper record of votes cast, as opposed to some all-electronic models that do not. This would signify a marked shift away from all-electronic voting, which was encouraged with the passage of the Help Americans Vote Act in 2002.”
What is kind of sad is that young woman *Reality Winner real name.. was sentenced to five years and three months today for leaking that the Russian hacking was going on because the nobody was telling the states. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/6412...-5-years-3-months-for-leaking-classified-info "The Associated Press reports: "Her attorneys had argued for Winner to be released on bond, noting she had no criminal record and had served honorably in the military. The judge sided with prosecutors who said Winner posed a potential flight risk and may have stolen other classified documents. "Prosecutors also used Winner's own words against her, including a Facebook chat in which Winner once wrote to her sister: "Look, I only say I hate America like 3 times a day."" Yes because doing what she believed was the right thing (many would agree) to alert to election hacking by Russia, shows she "hates America".. FFS. * What are the chances of the only girl in the world called Reality Winner being thrown into jail for losing in the Trump reality TV presidency?
1st act of Mike Pence should be to pardon this woman for doing her sworn duty to protect this country from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Yea, it's the left that's the problem as evidenced in this thread. And by the way, only one person has been convicted of voter fraud during the last election and it was a Republican. So the only long history here is your history of lies.
Maybe you should not abuse the ET forum and only take quotes from the context of the thread they were placed in.
How is this out of context? You said its the left that doesn't want to protect the integrity of the election system without any evidence when in fact its the Trump admin refusing to do exactly that. Just because the left doesn't play along with your voter suppression plan carefully designed to prevent millions of poor, elderly and minority voters from exercising their right, doesn't mean what you want it to mean.
The Obama administration put in place the REAL ID requirement which will prevent millions of poor, elderly and minority voters from getting drives licenses so they can drive to the polls and exercise their right to vote. Glad that is abundantly clear now.
Yes for DRIVERS - DRIVING is NOT a CIVIC DUTY - VOTING IS. Driving is not a fundamental right - voting is. Not everyone who votes is a driver, millions of voters don't have cars, millions are unable to drive and millions will find it impossible for logistical reasons some of which is intentional. If you want your ID thing to be implemented, find ways to have them delivered at each voters house otherwise your proposal is simply tactical voter suppression as Republicans have admitted many times.