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With the Trump<\/span> administration assaulting each the spirit and the letter of the USA Structure on multiple<\/a> fronts<\/a>, President Donald Trump has additionally grow to be more and more vocal\u2014and combative\u2014in his plans for US election administration.<\/p>\n After practically a decade of federal and state investment in election security and integrity initiatives<\/a>, researchers and election officers engaged on the bottom across the nation have been clear that US election infrastructure<\/a> is as sturdy and clear because it’s ever been. In a March executive order<\/a> and subsequent feedback on social media, although, Trump has promoted a baseless counternarrative that US election infrastructure is outmoded and unreliable, requiring federal intervention.<\/p>\n Trump’s administration has additionally curtailed<\/a> a good portion of the federal authorities’s election safety work and put in officers inside the Division of Homeland Safety who deny the validity of Trump’s 2020 presidential loss. Most lately, election conspiracy concept promoter Heather Honey was appointed a deputy assistant secretary for election integrity inside the US Division of Homeland Safety in late August<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cKeep in mind, the States are merely an \u2018agent\u2019 for the Federal Authorities in counting and tabulating the votes,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on Fact Social final month. \u201cThey have to do what the Federal Authorities, as represented by the President of the USA, tells them.\u201d<\/p>\n