State officials across the nation are fighting former President
Barack Obama’s last-minute decision to impose federal authority over
state-run election systems, the Daily Caller News Foundation has
learned.
The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), which
includes officials from all 50 states and U.S. territories, appealed to
President Donald Trump in a resolution approved Saturday at the group’s
winter meeting to overturn the Obama policy, but doing so may encounter
unexpected resistance from the new administration.
Obama ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Jan. 6, 2017,
to classify local and state election systems under the new federal
designation of “critical infrastructure.”
By a voice vote, the NASS declared that it “opposes the designation
of elections as critical infrastructure,” with opposition cutting across
party lines. The NASS includes 33 Republicans, 21 Democrats and one
independent
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