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The 2020 election is vulnerable. Congress needs to guard against attacks starting now.
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The 2020 election is vulnerable. Congress needs to guard against attacks starting now.

James Lamond warns that Congress should prepare for Russian attempts to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.

Earlier this month, Americans across the country went to the polls for the first time since the broad-based political attack Russia perpetrated against the United States during the 2016 presidential election. This was the first national test of the electoral infrastructure in a new era of foreign interference. Despite several alarms bells that were sounded ahead of the vote, in terms of foreign interference, the election was largely a success.

However, we should not interpret this as a reason to let down our guard. Russia is still targeting our democracy, and there is no reason to believe that it will not interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

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