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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Seeks to Close Federal Election Agency
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-seeks-to-close-federal-election-agency-1500325218House Republicans are seeking to defund the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, the sole federal agency that exclusively works to ensure the voting process is secure, as part of proposed federal budget cuts.
The defunding move comes as the EAC is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to examine an attack late last year on the agencys computer systems by a Russian-speaking hacker.
House Republicans say the EAC no longer is necessary and that the Federal Election Commission could bear its responsibilities. They also say the agencys work duplicates efforts at the Department of Homeland Security and FBI and that it improperly interferes in the right of states to conduct their elections.
People supporting the EAC are quite frankly proponents for a greater federal role in our elections, said Rep. Tom Graves (R., Ga.) at a June committee hearing on the proposal to eliminate the agency. States themselves, theyre responsible for all the elections. We do not have a federally run election system.
However, Democrats have said Russian meddling in the 2016 election has boosted the importance of the EAC. The agency helps train local officials on such tasks as recruiting poll workers and, during last years campaign, distributed memos keeping election officials apprised on potential vulnerabilities in voting systems.
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Not even hiding what they want to do now.
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GOP Seeks to Close Federal Election Agency (Original Post)
sunonmars
Jul 2017
OP
liberal N proud
(60,347 posts)1. Moving fascism forward one step after another but very quickly
They know if they don't steal the country completely, they will be tossed out in 2018.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. This is The Onion, right? Right?
Guess they don't need it since the elections are going to be fixed from here on out, kind of like in every other dictatorship where they want to give people the illusion of democracy.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)4. We have President Onion.
procon
(15,805 posts)3. Dictators do not have elections.
Day by day. One step closer...
rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)5. K & R