The dangerous and unconstitutional move for Washington control of elections

When Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, offered federal “help” to states to secure their voting systems from hackers, it was met with a collective yawn from American voters...

What’s wrong with the federal government involving itself further in the voting process?

Very simply, it’s not in the Constitution...

So here’s a little civics lesson for the low-information voters:

• There is no federal authority to control or secure elections. It is reserved for each state to administer its own elections, restricted only by constitutional protections for voting rights. The federal government is already too involved in setting complex campaign finance laws that often diminish free-speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment. Those same laws have been used selectively to punish those the controlling powers don’t like – for example, Dinesh D’Souza...
   
• The Constitution specifically gives the states the power to administer elections, and to determine the qualifications of all voters in both state and federal elections...
   
• The federal government has been the victim of some of the greatest hacks in the history of the world...

... Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely...

The 2016 presidential election is the most divisive and stratifying in modern history.

The Washington establishment has chosen its candidate – Hillary Clinton, one who has a demonstrated record of failure and contempt when it comes to national security matters with her own personal behavior.

It’s not as if the Washington establishment is a disinterested party in the outcome of this election...

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