YEAH, I DON’T TRUST THEM: Homeland Security eyes special declaration to take charge of elections. Jeh Johnson considers this a bug: “There’s no one federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions involved in the election process.”

Given how federal cyber-security has gone, I consider it a feature. We really need to strengthen electoral security, but giving it over to the feds creates a single point of failure, a major source of distrust, and a temptation to misbehavior. If you want to make Trump’s claim that the election is being rigged seem prophetic instead of crazy, just go ahead with this.