The Senate Intelligence Committee's report notes that Russian agents “exploited the seams” between federal government expertise and ill-equipped state and local election officials.
A Senate report on Russian interference in U.S. elections highlights one of the biggest challenges to preventing foreign intrusions in American democracy: the limited powers and ability of the federal government to protect elections run by state and local officials. That has given fuel to those who argue for a larger federal role.
Tensions flared in August 2016, when then-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson raised the possibility of designating the nation’s election system, comprising some 10,000 separate jurisdictions, as critical infrastructure to free up federal resources to support states. Some state officials decried it as a “federal takeover” of elections.
But many cybersecurity experts say that more must be done. They support legislation stalled in Congress that would require states to have a voter-verified paper record of every ballot cast and require states to implement more rigorous audits of election results. Norden said, “There is a place for Congress to say that we want all Americans to trust in our elections and there are minimum standards that everyone should abide by.”taking up election security legislation, saying the Trump administration has already made strides in protecting the vote and no additional federal funding is needed beyond the $380 million in grants sent to states last year.
“If we were to federalize elections, we’re not just going to flip a switch on that,” said David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which works to improve election administration through research. “It would be a long-term, really expensive solution and it would create a new bureaucracy.”little interest in election security; his interactions with Homeland Security mostly deal with immigration.
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