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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.

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.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/h...take-charge-of-elections/article/2600592

Since critical infrastructure is heavily secured, does this mean that ID's will now be required in order to participate in the election?

No more likely to be abused than the IRS will be used to harass political enemies....

ID's will only be required of the hackers now.

Most of them already have government ID's anyway, from various agencies.

Things are moving to anarchy

That's what the end result of tyranny is.

Central Government Control.

China, Russia, and others brought it in by force. We're just going to vote it in.

I believe he is wrong about this part in particular. Hacking into a bunch of smaller systems to influence results make it much more difficult to have a big impact. Put all in a single central system and it only takes one break to throw the whole election. All the eggs in one basket is usually a bad idea... and would make it real easy for .gov to make the results come out any way they want.

Absolutely no trust in Jeh Johnson.

Elections should remain in the domain of the states and their elected election officials. And yes picture ID should be required of all voters, a FL DL or FL ID are required here and nobody bitches.

Does picture id prove citizenship ?

Only if there's a Border Patrol bus parked out front of the ID office.

"A White House policy directive" - Here is one of many things wrong with this.

The porch monkeys next move to destroy us..
They all need hanging..

T,
this is NOT BS, it's tyranny!

This is a ploy to suspend the elections so ZERO can stay in office.

Honestly I suspect the man is a true believer, he just doesn't believe in the same things Americans believe in.

Which is the end goal, of course...

Paper ballots only, pleeze..

Good, let's keep it that way..........no federal interference to fix it or fu^ck it up.

MM

Yeah, right... they fell right into that question, the dumb assses.... critical, so damn critical you don't need ID to vote.....

You really have to wonder how close we are to implosion.