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Title: Homeland eyes special declaration to take charge of elections
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/h ... e-of-elections/article/2600592
Published: Aug 30, 2016
Author: Paul Bedard
Post Date: 2016-08-30 20:20:35 by Ada
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FBI Issues Alert After Voting Hack in Illinois and Arizona Even before the FBI identified new cyber attacks on two separate state election boards, the Department of Homeland Security began considering declaring the election a "critical infrastructure," giving it the same control over security it has over Wall Street and and the electric power grid. The latest admissions of attacks could speed up that effort possibly including the upcoming presidential election, according to officials. "We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said. "There's a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others critical infrastructure," he said at media conference earlier this month hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. Stay abreast of the latest developments from nation's capital and beyond with curated News Alerts from the Washington Examiner news desk and delivered to your inbox. DHS has a vital security role in 16 areas of critical infrastructure and they provide a model for what the department and Johnson could have in mind for the election. DHS describes it this way on their website: "There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof." A White House policy directive adds, "The federal government also has a responsibility to strengthen the security and resilience of its own critical infrastructure, for the continuity of national essential functions, and to organize itself to partner effectively with and add value to the security and resilience efforts of critical infrastructure owners and operators." At the time, Johnson did not mention specific security issues, but the FBI has since cited one hack and another attempt. Johnson also said that the big issue at hand is that there isn't a central election system since the states run elections. "There's no one federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions involved in the election process," Johnson said.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
this is the same fbi that has to create terror plots to maintain their budget? anyone thinking that they as a registered voter their ballot means jack is on an iq level as a box of rocks, anyone thinking that letting the federal government have control of elections a good idea makes a box of rocks look like an Einstein. Well said.
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Awww, a NATIONAL INTEREST! "Defending" amerika's NATIONAL INTERESTS, that's the excuse under which everything's done today. Wars used to be logically limited to borders, but under the NATIONAL INTERESTS ruse our borders are now all over the world. What a nightmare. Homeland Security's qualified to run elections like it's equipped to cure acne. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
I work for the Board of Election on voting days. This scares me a lot, Armed federal people at the election places.
At the time, Johnson did not mention specific security issues, but the FBI has since cited one hack and another attempt. Johnson also said that the big issue at hand is that there isn't a central election system since the states run elections. "There's no one federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions involved in the election process," Johnson said.
I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.
#2. To: IRTorqued (#1)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
There's a vital national interest
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