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Senate Intelligence Committee finally acknowledging the security of the 2018 election is in jeopardy

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It's late, but better than never. The Senate Intelligence Committee released a draft summary of its review of Russia's interference in the 2016 election and recommendations for securing the 2018 election.

"It is clear the Russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system," said Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the chairman of the Intelligence panel [...]

"Russia was trying to undermine the confidence in our election system," Burr added. [...]

"Russia attempted to penetrate 21 states; we know they were successful in penetrating at least one voter database," Burr added at a bipartisan news conference on Capitol Hill. […]

Their recommendations for what the federal government and states can and should do make sense and actually do something if the occupier of the Oval Office wasn't in Vladimir Putin's pocket and if Republican Congress leadership wasn't all but inviting Russia in for 2018.

Burr and committee recommend that the federal government "clearly communicate to adversaries that an attack on our election infrastructure is a hostile act, and we will respond accordingly." The federal government might say that to Russia, but Trump never will. The committee also calls for"information-sharing among the various U.S. intelligence agencies and federal, state and local governments," and state and local governments to use resources already in place in the Department of Homeland Security for evaluating the safety of their voting systems.


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