In case you missed it this January like I did, the DHS declared the US elections process to be "critical infrastructure" and therefore subject to DHS control. The implication of this event is that the US election process is now coming under more federalized, centralized control. As a result, the process could be more easily co-opted by federal interests. It's interesting to note that this designation only came about as late as January 2017, around a month or two after the unexpected election of outsider candidate Donald Trump. Could it be that the government no longer wants its people to count their own votes, because their votes can no longer be trusted to support the anointed candidate?

For more info, see here:

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2...-us-elections/