THE TENNESSEAN (July 20, 2018) – Here is an important takeaway from the infamous July 16 Helsinki, Finland, press conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin: After-the-fact affirmation that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 presidential election and that Putin’s regime may do so again in the 2018 midterm elections.
… In a March guest column, Shanna Singh Hughey, president of the Nashville-based ThinkTennessee public policy organization, wrote that a report last year showed that Tennessee left $30 million unspent for elections upgrades.
In addition, a 2018 ThinkTennessee poll showed 68 percent of Tennesseans believe the state should be doing more to safeguard elections …