Homeland eyes special declaration to take charge of elections

Federal US "Homeland" Security takes unprecedented role overseeing / controlling state elections? The fix is in. Tick tock

1 posted on 08/30/2016 5:00:57 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009

To: MarchonDC09122009

Mods, this needs to be in ‘Breaking News’

2 posted on 08/30/2016 5:02:54 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)

To: MarchonDC09122009

Dictatorships like to continue in power

3 posted on 08/30/2016 5:03:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)

Don't worry folks, Congress will be right on top of this as soon as they address the threat by Trump.

Face palm...

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4 posted on 08/30/2016 5:03:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)

To: MarchonDC09122009

5 posted on 08/30/2016 5:03:44 PM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)

To: MarchonDC09122009

Hillary must be losing in a landslide.

6 posted on 08/30/2016 5:03:55 PM PDT by hflynn

To: MarchonDC09122009

The fix is in. Tick tock

No it isn't, buck up.

7 posted on 08/30/2016 5:04:02 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)

To: MarchonDC09122009

Under what authority?

Ignore all media

Get Out The Vote

8 posted on 08/30/2016 5:04:40 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)

To: MarchonDC09122009

This strikes me as a bad idea, one that could lead to serious problems.

9 posted on 08/30/2016 5:04:59 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)

To: MarchonDC09122009

Polling must not be going for Clinton.

10 posted on 08/30/2016 5:05:28 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")

To: MarchonDC09122009

This is it folks. The End Game.

11 posted on 08/30/2016 5:06:19 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)

To: MarchonDC09122009

A few states may have an issue with this.

12 posted on 08/30/2016 5:06:49 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)

Hillary must be losing in a landslide

THIS.

13 posted on 08/30/2016 5:06:53 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)

Article Title should read: The Obama regime seizes power over US elections

and Drudge has this up in red on his website.
The FEDS are seizing power. NOW.

This is their way of starting the civil war... they so desperately prepared for with their massive buys of Ammo for all branches of the Federal government.

tis the season.

14 posted on 08/30/2016 5:07:19 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)

To: MarchonDC09122009

No further doubt Obola, leftist supporters and TPTB are determined to steal the election from Trump and patriot supporters.
This is So rotten!

From news article:

“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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“There’s a national election for president, there are some 9,000 jurisdictions that participate, contribute to collecting votes, tallying votes and reporting votes,” he said.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

15 posted on 08/30/2016 5:07:46 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)

To: Balding_Eagle

Yeah, don’t get alarmed, the Obamatollah’s folks are going to do their very best to make sure everything is on the level.

16 posted on 08/30/2016 5:08:01 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)

To: MarchonDC09122009

Illary can’t win so there’s a new strategy to drive the election decision into the courts where a divided SCOTUS minus Scalia decides for the Dems. Watch for the Dems to bring suit in the 9th Circuit.

17 posted on 08/30/2016 5:08:16 PM PDT by BlueYonder

To: MarchonDC09122009

Allowing toadies of the government that’s in power to oversee elections is a bad idea, I think.

18 posted on 08/30/2016 5:08:33 PM PDT by Augie

To: MarchonDC09122009

They have to be ready just in case it looks like the results aren’t going to be to their liking.

19 posted on 08/30/2016 5:08:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)

To: SkyPilot; All

Yup
Plain as day in our face..

RE: “This is it folks. The End Game.

20 posted on 08/30/2016 5:09:15 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)

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