{"id":382783,"date":"2018-10-29T00:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-virtual-situation-room-to-protect-us-midterms\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T00:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:29:30","slug":"presstv-virtual-situation-room-to-protect-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-virtual-situation-room-to-protect-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Virtual situation room\u2019 to protect US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Department of Homeland Security vows to protect the American citizens\u2019 votes in part by setting up a \u201cvirtual situation room\u201d for the November 6 midterm elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be setting up a virtual situation rom on Election Day so we can very quickly support any incident response that\u2019s needed and so we can share any information,\u201d DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Fox News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She made the comments after a week marking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/10\/24\/577982\/US-explosives-Barack-Obama--Hillary-Clinton\">political violence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/10\/27\/578296\/Pittsburg-attack-likely-deadliest-one-on-Jewish-community-in-US-history-ADL\">terrorism <\/a>in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen added that the department is \u201cmore prepared than we\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal here &#8230; is absolutely to assure Americans that their votes will count and their votes will be counted correctly,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are constantly monitoring, constantly working with them, sharing information\u2026 we will continue to prepare, not just for this election, but for every election to come in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All 435 seats in the United States House&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/28\/578388\/US-Homeland-Security-to-set-up-virtual-situation-room-on-midterms-Election-Day-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Homeland Security vows to protect the American citizens\u2019 votes in part by setting up a \u201cvirtual situation room\u201d for the November 6 midterm elections. \u201cWe will be setting up a virtual situation rom on Election Day so we can very quickly support any incident response that\u2019s needed and so we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}