All 50 state secretaries of state are urging the Trump administration to rescind a last-minute Department of Homeland Security directive calling state election systems “critical infrastructure.”
Many state officials fear this is the first step toward a federal takeover of state-run elections, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
While deep political discord may be found on other issues, state secretaries — who oversee all election machinery — appear completely united against the former administration’s attempt to insert the federal government into state-run elections.
Then-Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson surprised and outraged state election officials with his Jan. 6 action, just two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump was to assume the presidency.
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On this one the dumbocrats had the right idea! Any election with a presidential component should follow a federal procedure. Every voter and every candidate needs to have presented a birth certificate during the registration process.
ReplyDeleteThis would prevent illegals from voting as well as candidates that previously claimed foreign student status!