Bipartisan Support For Election Protection Bill Could Derail Trump’s Plan To Rig 2020

Trump acts like his reelection is a foregone conclusion, but Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) told Rachel Maddow that there is bipartisan support for a bill to protect and secure US elections.

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Sen. Warner said, “There is actually broadly based bipartisan legislation which I agreed to co-sponsor today. Three Republicans, three Democrats. It’s common sense. This shouldn’t require huge action this is — nothing is more basic than protecting the integrity of our voting process. And we’ve got to have that paper trail. We’ve got to have that information sharing. There is protecting the actual voting machines, protecting the voter files. I also frankly think we need to put out some good cyber hygiene habits for campaigns. Campaigns are the ultimate startups, and they oftentimes may not have cyber high on their list. But we have to be protected because what we’ve seen, and not only in terms of intervention in our elections, but Russia attempted interventions in the French elections, observations they intervened in the Spanish Catalan elections. The British have come and visited us because they’ve seen intervention in terms of the Brexit vote. We have to be on our guard.”

Trump acts like it is his destiny that he is going to win a second term, and his whole plan appears to be based around repeating the same tactics that he and the Russians used in 2016. The problem with this idea is that his data firm has been kicked off of Facebook, the social media networks are much more sensitive to foreign-born attacks to influence an election, and most importantly, US voters are more skeptical.

If Trump is counting on the Russians to rig the election for him, the election protection bill is vital. Trump is trying to keep the electoral back door wide open for the Russians, but Democrats and Republicans are fighting back to secure and protect US democracy.

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Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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