Am I misunderstanding something?
With stories like these (about NC’s election system vulnerabilities) --
Just days before the 2016 voting, Greenhalgh and other activists had heard the first reports that Russian operatives had tried to hack into an election technology company called VR Systems. She wondered that day if VR Systems was Durham’s vendor.
It was.
...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP lawmakers are refusing to vote on critical election security bills that would provide federal dollars and support to local election systems to upgrade cybersecurity, as well as requiring paper ballots and audits that would ensure the integrity of the vote.
Why isn’t this a #1 priority for the Democratic House? Why are they not refusing to fund the government unless electoral security is implemented? This seems a no-brainer, and something the large majority of the public would get behind.
Or is this not as big a deal as it seems?