If you’re going to have an Election Assistance Commission wouldn’t the purpose of that commission be, in part, to provide states with expertise and funding to ensure their election systems are secure? This obviously means moving to paper ballots nationwide.

This should have been done 6 months ago when the Republicans shut this bill down. Now is almost too late. Yes, YES. YES!! The voting machines that have been around since the 1980s are vulnerable as we saw from the last election.

Only if it includes voter ID and prohibits non US citizens from voting in any and all elections at every level of government: federal, state, and local.

This commonsense, bipartisan bill would provide needed funding for states to secure their election systems while ensuring that their security is continuously monitored and updated.

Yes, but only if they can actually prove election interference. It’s always easy to protect those who needs no protection. Like Senators Feinstein and her Chinese spy for 20 years.

👍🏻👍🏻S. 2593— the Secure Elections Act👍🏻👍🏻 By all means YES I’d SAY YES to the immediate passage of this commonsense, bipartisan Senatebill S. 3593 - the Secure Elections Act which would provide needed funding for states to secure their election systems while ensuring that their security is continuously monitored and updated. This Senate bill S. 2593— the Secure Elections Act — would give the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) the primary responsibility within the federal government for sharing information about election cybersecurity incidents, threats, and vulnerabilities with federal entities and election agencies. The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) would award $386 million in election system cybersecurity and modernization grants to states and election agencies to implement the panel’s guidelines. Grants would be awarded to: 1) remediate vulnerabilities identified by a cybersecurity evaluation; 2) replace electronic voting systems that aren’t optical scanners that read paper ballots; and 3) reimburse states for statistical audits of ballots in close federal elections. This commonsense, bipartisan bill would provide needed funding for states to secure their election systems while ensuring that their security is continuously monitored and updated. 8*8*28 ..... SneakyPete

Is this a democracy or an autocracy ruled by the few? If we aim for the former (I certainly do) why would we not want to ensure the integrity of our votes? Electronic voting systems should be banned and replaced by hand marked paper ballots with audit trail and retention. Independent election monitors at every polling station and additional polling stations to make up for the ones the republicans closed in minority districts. That all costs $ for training and yes it is an investment but could be done with proper funding.

FOR GODS SAKES YES !! HOW ELSE ARE THE STATES GOING TO PAY FOR HARDENING THE VOTING SYSTEMS AGAINST RUSSIAN INTRUSION !!!!! TRUMP WON'T DO ANYTHING ! HE WANTS RUSSIA TO TAKE OVER THE UNITED STATES FOR HIM !

Yes. But it’s important to remember our last presidential election was influenced by social media, not someone hacking into the voting machines and changing vote counts. While this will help with someone changing vote counts, it will do nothing to stop the influence on social media.

But only if States requires government issue identification If anybody can vote waste of money

It's a Federal election and federal responsibility to make it safe. We have a defense budget that needs to be used where the danger is. We are much more likely to be attacked electronically than by lethal weapons. And I have news for Mr. T. Cyber attacks bypass walls. Put the money where the danger lies.

Yes, and paper ballots as backups!

Protecting our elections and our technology against cybercrime is an important part of national security. We must protect our financial, Defense, medical, & govt data.