The agency charged with enforcing campaign finance rules faces a new high-tech threat that it’s not equipped to handle, says a former federal elections official.
At an Aug. 31 event hosted by Georgetown University, former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission Robert Lenhard said that digital media have altered political campaigns and how they’re influenced.
“Technology is changing the nature of our campaigns,” he said.
While that alone presents its own set of concerns, Lenhard added that the risk of electoral influence at the hands of a foreign government “is much greater” than that of a rogue malefactor.
