Jon Husted wants feds to keep out of Ohio elections
Source: Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Despite a warning from the FBI director the day before about hackers’ attempts to disrupt the presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted doesn’t want the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s help in securing the state’s voting setup.
Such a move would be tantamount to handing over control of Ohio’s election to Washington, Husted reasons.
“The federal government has a lot of mission creep when it comes to elections in the country,” Husted said Thursday in a conference call with reporters.
The Republican called on Congress to establish a law prohibiting the Homeland Security Department from defining election equipment as “critical infratructure” that theoretically could be taken over by the federal government in a national emergency.
Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/09/29/jon-husted-wants-feds-to-keep-out-of-ohio-elections.html
In Other Words: We don't want the Feds coming in and making sure out elections are fair and honest. Why they might want us to put more voting machines in areas that tend to vote Democrat and cut down the 8 hour lines. They might want to actually check the software to be sure it tallies the votes correctly. And (gasp) they might want us to secure the machines and not let poll workers download the vote tallies onto their laptops and drive the laptops to the counting stations, because we all no there is no possibility that that worker might fudge the vote.
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