Lankford on Election Security Bill: We Have to Bolster Up the States or We’ll Have Russia Interfering Again

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LANKFORD: “That’s exactly what we seem to see, is that interference in the elections happened, absolutely happened during the 2016 time period. The Russians were trying to engage. So our issue is how do we protect it for the future? States run elections. States should continue to run elections, but we have 12 states that can’t audit their election systems right now. It took almost a year for the federal government to be able to contact some of the states that the Russians were trying to probe their system. So we have to speed up the communications between the federal government and the states, we have to bolster up the states and what they're doing to make sure they can audit their systems, and find a good way to cooperate together or we’ll run into the same thing all over again.”