Voter Fraud, Voter Supression, Cyber Crime: What's the Bigger Threat to Democracy?

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Anyone didn't see this coming?

Russia's propaganda machine discovers 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna964261

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A few days ago the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report that confirmed every single state's election system was targeted by Russia in the 2016 election. The committee is headed by Republicans. That came a day after Meuller testified before congress and repeated, urgently, the need to protect our election systems. He said Russia is already interfering in our next elections "as we sit here."

Why is Senate Majority Leader "Moscow Mitch" McConnell blocking every measure to protect our elections against interference, even bipartisan ones? He will not let them come before the Senate for a vote.

According to the NY Times:

"Proponents of the bills say they are devised to keep the states in the lead. A Democratic measure approved by the House would send more than $1 billion to state and local governments to tighten election security, but would also demand that states use the money for machines with backup paper ballots and require a national strategy to protect American democratic institutions against cyberattacks. States would be required to spend federal funds only on federally certified “election infrastructure vendors.”

A bipartisan measure in both chambers would require internet companies like Facebook to disclose the purchasers of political ads. Another bipartisan Senate proposal would codify cyberinformation-sharing initiatives between federal intelligence services and state election officials, speed up the granting of security clearances to state officials and provide federal incentives for states to adopt backup paper ballots.

Backup paper ballots got an endorsement Tuesday from an unlikely source: Mr. Trump. He took to Twitter to call for “Paper Ballots as backup [[old fashioned but true!).”"

‘Moscow Mitch’ Tag Enrages McConnell and Squeezes G.O.P. on Election Security
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/u...mcconnell.html