From Fortune by Hadley Hitson

…[When] it comes to elections, a cornerstone of American democracy, the vendors whose voting equipment is used throughout the country largely lack the level of federal oversight and direction that protect other critical infrastructure industries from domestic and foreign interference.

In early November, several federal agencies, including Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the FBI, released a joint statement naming election security “a top priority for the United States government.” Yet there is not, nor has there ever been, any required federal oversight of election security.

“Elections in the U.S. are a fairly laissez-faire affair,” says Joshua Franklin, president of digital infrastructure company OutStack. “In fact, the United States Constitution contains a section specifically about this, known as the Elections Clause. Succinctly said, unless otherwise noted by Congress, states get to choose all the election things.”

The framers of the Constitution feared concentrated political power, and for this reason, they gave the national government limited enumerated powers, which do not include running elections. Since the confirmation of Russian interference in the 2016 elections, though, many Americans have grown concerned about the absence of federal checks on U.S. election security.

Read this very interesting perspective here.