Russian hackers may have just done American voters a favor

How’s this for irony: The same Obama administration that has steadfastly opposed “racist” voter ID laws may declare the electoral system a “critical infrastructure” in an effort to prevent unauthorized tampering — proving once again that even liberals can recognize the difference between rhetoric and reality when the stakes are high enough.A cynic might suggest the Department of Homeland Security

wouldn’t be investigating if election databases in Illinois and Arizona had been hacked by LaRaza instead of, possibly, Russians. But Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s suggestion that the integrity of elections is a national interest as critical as the power grid or financial sector is welcome nevertheless because it will undermine all future self-serving impulses to claim just the opposite.”People have asked, ‘Why not Internet voting?’ This is why,” said Allen County director of elections Beth Dlug,

who is confident local results can be trusted because voting machines operate independently, are not connected to the Internet and contain their own internal auditing system. “If you ought to have 20 votes and you have 120, you know something’s happening,” she said. The use of a variety of machines among the 9,000 American jurisdictions holding elections also makes it difficult to influence results on a wide basis, she added. For the full article click here 

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