The federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) can require election systems venders to disclose their foreign connections without any new laws from Congress, the Brennan Center for Justice argues. “EAC may deny or suspend registration based on noncompliance with standards and criteria that it publishes,” according to the report.
“Unfortunately, from its founding,” the Brennan report authors say, “the EAC has had a history of controversy and inaction in carrying out its core mission.”
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1. Why has the federal Election Assistance Commission not acted under its own authority under the present laws, as the Brennan Center argues, when it doesn’t need new laws to require foreign election vendors to disclose their ownership?
2. How did Smartmatic’s divestment of its American assets, and its leasing of software to those assets and other companies, avoid a CFIUS investigation to the company’s ownership, and the ability of its software to serve as a foreign malign influence on American elections?
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