Monday, February 20, 2017

State Officials Want Trump To Reverse Obama’s Last-Minute Election Power Grab

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Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, waits to swear in immigrants during a naturalization ceremony in at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, June 20, 2016 in New York City. Started by the United Nations in 2000, June 20 is World Refugee Day. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

State officials across the nation are fighting former President Barack Obama’s last-minute decision to impose federal authority over state-run election systems, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), which includes officials from all 50 states and U.S. territories, appealed to President Donald Trump in a resolution approved Saturday at the group’s winter meeting to overturn the Obama policy, but doing so may encounter unexpected resistance from the new administration.

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