{"id":24079,"date":"2020-04-24T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T03:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24079"},"modified":"2020-04-24T20:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T03:37:53","slug":"new-voting-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24079","title":{"rendered":"NEW VOTING CONCERNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two House lawmakers on Friday zeroed in on new election security threats posed by an increase in mail-in voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Reps.\u00a0John Katko\u00a0(R-N.Y.) and\u00a0Kathleen Rice\u00a0(D-N.Y.) wrote letters to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and to the New York State Board of Elections following the signing of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hvbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpmwnhqb_pvvhmmjqjbhmdcclymdf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hvbmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpmwnhqb_pvvhmmjqjbhmdcclymdf.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587851702452000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHRoYGObvrTULpmxDXYJfbfYaZJ6w\">executive order<\/a>\u00a0by New York Gov.\u00a0Andrew Cuomo\u00a0(D) ordering state officials to send absentee ballot request forms to every voter in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Katko and Rice raised questions around new election security concerns that moving to vote-by-mail exposed, and urged the agencies to clarify steps being taken to preserve the public\u2019s confidence in elections.<\/p>\n<p>Katko, who is the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee\u2019s cybersecurity panel, said in a statement he was particularly interested in steps taken to combat disinformation and other election interference efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NYS Board of Elections and U.S. Election Assistance Commission must detail for the public the steps they are taking to protect against interference and disinformation campaigns, as well as how they will identify and address potential threats to the upcoming elections,\u201d Katko said.<\/p>\n<p>Rice, a member of the cybersecurity subcommittee, said in a separate statement that her goal was to ensure the upcoming primary and general elections were \u201cconducted safely and securely\u201d despite the chaos caused by the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two House lawmakers on Friday zeroed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24080,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24079\/revisions\/24080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}