Hillary Clinton: Trump, McConnell abdicating responsibility on election security

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The Washington Post

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump, McConnell of ‘abdicating their responsibility’ on election security

John Wagner
9/17/19

Hillary Clinton accused President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of “abdicating their responsibility” on election security during a pointed speech Tuesday in which she also took aim at Trump for his repeated claims about voter fraud.

In a speech delivered at a conference in Washington, the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nominee applauded the Democratic-led House for passing legislation designed to strengthen election systems in the wake of Russian interference.

Clinton then slammed “Mitch McConnell’s Senate” for not acting on the legislation, which would authorize more than $600 million to update voting equipment to comply with new standards, including requirements that devoting machines produce a paper record, stay disconnected from the Internet and be manufactured in the United States.

“There is no way we can have the kind of secure election that we need without changing our laws and following it up with real investments,” Clinton said. “We have a fundamental set of threats to the bedrock of our democracy, and anyone who stands in the way of confronting those threats — from Mitch McConnell and his allies to the president himself — is abdicating their responsibility to protect and defend the Constitution.”

Clinton cited the conclusion of the report by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election in “sweeping and systematic fashion” in an attempt to benefit Trump, as well as an assessment by Daniel Coats, Trump’s former director of national intelligence, that the interference was continuing.
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