Obama Is Using the Russians as an Excuse to Expand Federal Power over Elections
A decentralized election system makes large-scale hacking nearly impossible. We should keep it that way.
By John Fund — January 8, 2017
The Obama Administration is leaving office much like the way it came in — by exploiting perceived crises.
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s just-named chief of staff, told a Wall Street Journal conference of top CEOs in November 2008 while his boss was still president-elect. Since then a slew of constitutionally dubious executive orders, presidential emergencies, and rushed legislation have characterized the Obama presidency. Now he is leaving office by issuing a blizzard of “midnight regulations” and edicts.
One of the most troublesome came last Friday and gave the federal government the power to begin centralizing our election systems. The Constitution explicitly gives states the power to set the “times, manner and places of holding elections.”
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