Homeland Security to set up ‘virtual situation room’ on Election Day
The US Department of Homeland Security vows to protect the American citizens’ votes in part by setting up a “virtual situation room” for the November 6 midterm elections.
“We will be setting up a virtual situation rom on Election Day so we can very quickly support any incident response that’s needed and so we can share any information,” DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Fox News on Sunday.
She made the comments after a week marking political violence and terrorism in the country.
Nielsen added that the department is “more prepared than we’ve ever been.”
“The goal here ... is absolutely to assure Americans that their votes will count and their votes will be counted correctly,” she said. “We are constantly monitoring, constantly working with them, sharing information… we will continue to prepare, not just for this election, but for every election to come in the future.”
All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested in the middle of Donald Trump's first term on November 6.
The midterms could potentially lead to a shift in power in US Congress.
The Democratic Party needs 23 seats in the House in the upcoming elections to take control of the lower chamber, while it needs only two Senate seats to win back the upper chamber as well.
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