The state officials expressed their unhappiness at a meeting of the National Organization of Secretaries of State that ended on Monday. “The phrase ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ comes to mind.”Department of Homeland Security officials acknowledged the need for improvement. 1 goal for us — to make sure you get what you need,” Christopher Krebs, the department’s acting undersecretary for national protection, told the state officials. Some state officials say the Russian attacks that made news in 2016 were misconstrued, and perhaps exaggerated, because federal officials failed to say quickly and clearly what was going on. But at the secretaries of states’ meeting in Washington, some state election officials said that had yet to happen.

Source: New York Times February 20, 2018 01:41 UTC