Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is expressing frustration with federal officials who are warning voter registration systems maintained by the states are in “imminent danger” of being “hacked.” The U.S. Homeland Security secretary said that states that fail to ask for help to prevent cyber intruders are “nuts.”

 

Pate says federal officials need to provide him and other election officials from other states with a security clearance so they can learn more details about the hacking.

 

Pate says that changed during the 2016 election in President Obama’s last year in office and the Trump Administration has continued withholding important information from the states.