Federal and state officials expressed confidence Tuesday in the security of the voting process, noting that while the infrastructure in Georgia and Ohio were experiencing technical difficulties, the election process remained secure. 

“Let me be clear, our election infrastructure is resilient, we have no indication that a foreign actor has succeeded in compromising or affecting the actual votes cast in this election,” acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad WolfChad WolfFederal official says voting security remains strong as polls begin to close Hillicon Valley: Officials express confidence in voting security amid early technical glitches | Unidentified robocall told millions to ‘stay home’ ahead of Election Day: report | QAnon’s danger rises with divisive election Voters line up at polls as country braces for results MORE said at a press conference Tuesday. 

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) serves as one of the federal leaders on election security and is working throughout the day Tuesday, and the days after the elections, to monitor for election threats. 

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Election security has been a major area of concern in the months leading up to Election Day, and particularly following Director of National Intelligence John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeFederal official says voting security remains strong as polls begin to close Hillicon Valley: Officials express confidence in voting security amid early technical glitches | Unidentified robocall told millions to ‘stay home’ ahead of Election Day: report | QAnon’s danger rises with divisive election Unidentified robocall told millions to ‘stay home’ ahead of Election Day: report MORE’s announcement last month that Iran and Russia had gained access to U.S. voter data and were using it to send threatening emails to voters in at least three states. 

CISA Director Christopher Krebs also told reporters Tuesday that federal officials “have addressed those threats” but urged vigilance as voters head to the polls and as the vote count begins. 

“We’re not out of the woods yet though, today in some senses is halftime, there may be other events or activities or efforts to interfere and undermine confidence in the election,” Krebs said. “I would ask all Americans to be patient, to treat all sensational and unverified claims with skepticism, and remember, technology sometimes fails and works, we are already seeing some early indications of system disruptions, so again I ask you to be patient and to seek trusted sources of information.”

A senior CISA official said on a separate press call Tuesday that potential threats throughout Election Day that federal, state and local elections officials were monitoring for included election website defacements, distributed denial-of-service attacks and ransomware attacks, which have taken down systems across the nation increasingly over the past year. 

Krebs’s comments came amid a few early voting glitches, most notably in Spalding County, Ga., which is located south of Atlanta and where all voting machines were temporarily down early Tuesday morning.

According to WSB-TV Channel 2 in Atlanta, a top county official said the county had experienced a glitch that caused systems to go down countywide, and that around 2,000 provisional ballots were being sent to voting locations to enable voters to cast a ballot.  

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Spalding County did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment on the voting issues, but a source told The Hill that the technical issue was related to problems with the county’s voter file download system, which hurt the ability to check voters using the electronic pollbooks. 

The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday that “the computers at all polling locations across Spalding County are down. The problem is being worked on and hopefully will be resolved quickly. Until the issue is fixed, paper ballots are being used at all locations.”

A spokesperson for Dominion Voting Systems, the voting equipment manufacturer that was awarded a contract by Georgia state officials to implement new voting systems last year, told The Hill that the company had “tech support onsite to assist the county with real-time help and all challenges are being addressed as quickly as possible.”

Georgia has faced multiple voting concerns this year, with malfunctioning election equipment and consolidated polling sites causing long lines in some Atlanta-area counties during the primary elections earlier this year. There were also technical glitches during the first day of early voting last month that caused long lines at one polling site in Atlanta. 

Spalding County was not alone in experiencing Election Day technical glitches. Officials in Franklin County, Ohio, were forced to switch to paper pollbooks to check voters in at the polls after a technical issue limited their ability to upload all registration information into electronic check-in systems.

The office of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R) put out a statement early Tuesday noting that the paper pollbooks were required in every county as a backup measure to ensure technical glitches did not impede the ability of voters to cast ballots. 

“Secretary LaRose directed every board of elections to have paper pollbooks as a contingency plan to ensure the integrity of the system and so no voter may vote twice,” LaRose’s office tweeted. “It will not impact the security or accuracy of today’s vote.” 

Watchdog group Common Cause noted in a morning update emailed to reporters that polling places in nine states had opened late on Election Day, but that these were “typical issues” that had been resolved. 

The senior CISA official emphasized that the system glitches seen early on Election Day were not caused by any malicious hacking activity. 

“What we’re really stressing is that when you see technology challenges or failures, more often than not, it is very, very, very rarely a cyber-related incident, it is typically a technology challenge, a misconfiguration, a failure,” the official told reporters. “Based on everything we have seen, that is what is going on out there.”

Officials were also monitoring for disinformation and misinformation that could negatively impact voting on Election Day. CISA stood up a rumor control website to address concerns around the voting process as part of an effort to push back against any potential issues.

One example of malicious disinformation came Monday night, when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) warned that residents of Dearborn, Mich., were being targeted by text messages trying to suppress the vote by saying there were “ballot sensor issues,” urging residents to “not fall for it.”

The Washington Post reported that around 10 million robocalls were directed at Michigan and Florida residents over the past several weeks warning potential voters to “stay safe and stay home” and not go to the polls. 

A senior CISA official noted Tuesday to reporters that the agency was aware of the incidents, adding that while they “would expect to see more of that,” state officials were “on top of it.” 

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Krebs told reporters during the morning press conference with Wolf that it was important for Americans to maintain confidence in the security of the voting process and to have patience as an expected influx of mail-in ballots were counted. 

“Keep calm, vote on, and after today, keep calm, and let them count,” Krebs said.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) called President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden pulls ahead of Trump in Georgia Biden takes lead in Georgia, makes gains in Pennsylvania Gore: This election is ‘completely different’ than 2000 MORE’s claims that he is being cheated out of an election victory “dangerous” and predicted GOP lawmakers would not back up his statement.

“No Republican elected official is going to stand behind that statement. None of them will,” Santorum, a CNN contributor, said on air shortly after Trump delivered a televised statement Thursday accusing election officials of intentionally miscounting ballots.

Santorum said “much” of Trump’s statement was “not factual and was at times incendiary and not something a president of the United States should say.”

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The former GOP lawmaker argued there’s no evidence of fraud in the vote counting in battlegrounds such as his home state of Pennsylvania.

“I know there’s a lot of people who think this election’s stolen, a lot of people think there’s fraud,” he said. “There may be fraud, we don’t know that right now. For the president to go out there and claim that without any evidence of that is, is dangerous.

“I just would say to the president, there may be some validity in some of the things that you believe but to go out there and suggest that this is rigged … no.”

Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House Thursday evening, claimed “the officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine that you’ve written about.”

Trump noted he received a bachelor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia “and I know a lot about it.”

“It hasn’t changed, it’s gotten worse,” he said.

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“In Pennsylvania, partisan Democrats have allowed ballots in the state to be received three days after the election and we think much more than that,” Trump added. “And they’re counting those without even postmarks or any identification whatsoever.”

Trump also asserted “there have been a number of disturbing irregularities across the nation.”

He said the Trump campaign has been denied access to a vote counting location in Detroit.

“Detroit is another place, and I wouldn’t say it had the best reputation for election integrity. Poll workers in Michigan were duplicating ballots but when our observers attempted to challenge the activity, those poll workers jumped in front of the volunteers to block their view so they couldn’t see what they were doing,” Trump claimed. 

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A judge in Georgia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump campaign over the state’s handling of absentee ballots just hours after it was filed in Chatham County court.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass dismissed the lawsuit following an hourlong hearing.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden pulls ahead of Trump in Georgia Biden takes lead in Georgia, makes gains in Pennsylvania Gore: This election is ‘completely different’ than 2000 MORE‘s campaign filed the lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Elections Wednesday evening, alleging that a witness had said that late-arriving ballots had not been properly stored and may have been mixed in with timely ballots.

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“Having read and considered said petition, all argument and evidence of record, including the evidence presented at the hearing, and the applicable law, the Court finds that there is no evidence that the ballots referenced in the petition were received after 7:00 p.m. on election day, thereby making those ballots invalid,” Bass said in a brief, one-paragraph decision.

“Additionally, there is no evidence that the Chatham County Board of Elections or the Chatham County Board of Registrars has failed to comply with the law.”

Georgia will only accept ballots that were received before 7 p.m. on Election Day.

As of Thursday afternoon, Trump held a narrowing lead in Georgia over former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden pulls ahead of Trump in Georgia Biden takes lead in Georgia, makes gains in Pennsylvania Gore: This election is ‘completely different’ than 2000 MORE of less than 15,000 votes amid the ongoing count.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark MilleyMark MilleyDefense Overnight: National Guard troops activated in 16 states | Generals tamp down election fears | Taiwan approved for 0M drone sale Top generals tamp down election concerns in private briefing with news anchors Space Force’s second-in-command tests positive for coronavirus MORE reportedly held an off-the-record video call with top Pentagon officials and network anchors over the weekend to dispel fears that the military might play a role in the presidential election.

The Defense Department on Tuesday confirmed the existence of the call.

“We can confirm the off the record meeting took place but we’re not going to confirm the content because … well … it was off the record,” a Joint Staff spokesperson told The Hill.

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Milley used Saturday’s call, first reported by Axios, to stress that the military would have no role in any potential transfer of power, according to a network anchor who participated.

An official also reportedly told anchors that images of uniformed National Guard troops were not cause for alarm as the governors had requested them.

Two sources from two separate networks also confirmed to The Hill that the meeting happened.

Milley, along with Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperDefense Overnight: National Guard troops activated in 16 states | Generals tamp down election fears | Taiwan approved for 0M drone sale Top generals tamp down election concerns in private briefing with news anchors Cutting defense spending by 10 percent would debilitate America’s military MORE, has repeatedly stressed in public that the U.S. military would remain apolitical as questions swirl around military involvement in the presidential election. 

In August, Milley told lawmakers he saw no role for U.S. troops to play in resolving any electoral dispute. 

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The concerns stem from President TrumpDonald John Trump Chris Wallace condemns Trump claims that he won the election ‘Squad’ member Rashida Tlaib wins reelection in Michigan Biden campaign blasts Trump victory claim as ‘outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect’ MORE’s reluctance to confirm that he will accept the results of the election or commit to a peaceful transition of power.

Trump has also cast doubt on the integrity of mail-in ballots despite no evidence of widespread fraud. In a White House press briefing in September, he said “we’re going to have to see what happens” when asked to commit to a peaceful transition.

Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe Biden Chris Wallace condemns Trump claims that he won the election Biden campaign blasts Trump victory claim as ‘outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect’ Bipartisan lawmakers condemn Trump for declaring victory prematurely MORE has also said that he was “absolutely convinced” troops would “escort” Trump from the White House if he lost the election but refused to leave. 

All this comes with the backdrop of Trump repeatedly using or threatening to use the military in domestic issues.

Over the summer, the commander in chief said he might deploy active-duty troops to quell widespread protests against racial injustice and police violence. Following that, Esper held a Pentagon news conference announcing his opposition to using active-duty troops against protesters.

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The United Kingdom has preemptively raised its terror threat level to “severe” from “substantial” following recent attacks in France and Austria. 

U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Twitter Tuesday that the move was a “precautionary measure and is not based on any specific threat.”

“The public should continue to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the police,” she tweeted.

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The “severe” threat level means that an attack is considered highly likely, according to The Associated Press. The previous “substantial” level meant that an attack was likely. 

The move comes on the heels of attacks in France and Austria that have been linked to Islamic extremists.

In Austria, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai was armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest as he walked through Vienna, killing five people and wounding another 14, according to the AP.  

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Unverified video showed Fejzulai, dressed in white coveralls, firing off rounds as he ran down the city’s cobblestone streets. Police shot and killed the suspect upon arriving at the scene.  

Austrian authorities said the suspect was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2019 for attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIS, although he was given early release in December. Police are looking for other suspects in connection to the attack. 

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel MacronEmmanuel Jean-Michel MacronUK raises terror threat level to ‘severe’ following attacks in France and Austria Schools in France reopen for first time since teacher killed Priest in France shot and injured, two days after knife attack in church MORE announced on Thursday that he had raised France’s security alert status to the highest threat level, and was deploying 7,000 troops to protect schools and religious sites after a knife attack inside a Nice church left three people dead. 

Authorities said Thursday that an armed attacker was wounded and taken into custody after a confrontation with police outside Nice’s Notre Dame Church, less than a mile from the location of a 2016 truck attack that killed dozens. The attacker was later identified as Ibrahim Issaoui. 

French authorities said that Issaoui was born in Tunisia and arrived in Italy on Sept. 20, before going to Paris on Oct. 29, French prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said, according to the AP. The attacker was not known to be a potential threat.

Two more suspects who have been in contact with the attacker before the killing were also arrested. 

The attack was the third in France in the past two months linked to Islamic extremists, including the Oct. 16 beheading of a French middle school teacher who showed his class, during a lesson on free speech, caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Last month, a man in France attacked people with a knife outside Charlie Hebdo’s former office. 

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The United Nations will hold a summit beginning Dec. 3 to focus on responding to the spread of COVID-19 and its effect on societies, the economy, trade and travel.

The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday voted 150-0 on a resolution to authorize the December summit, The Associated Press reported. The U.S., Israel and Armenia abstained from the vote.

The summit will reportedly include pre-recorded messages from world leaders and a discussion led by World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Volkan Bozkir, assembly president, called the summit “a historic moment and a test for multilateralism,” according to the AP, adding it “will be defined by our collective action on one of the most critical issues of our time.”

Countries around the world are currently experiencing new spikes in COVID-19 cases. The U.K., Germany, France and Italy have all gone into second national lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19.

On Wednesday, the U.S. broke a record when it reported more than 100,000 coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time. The number of cases recorded on Election Day came in at a close second place for the record.

Last week, a United Nations panel on biodiversity warned that the coronavirus crisis the world is experiencing may become commonplace, with more deadly, economically devastating viruses possibly arising in the future.

The panel said the way humans currently interact with nature, destroying habitats and over-consuming resources, results in more interaction with animals that carry viruses with the potential to infect humans.

There are currently over 850,000 viruses found in animals that could infect humans, with the U.N. panel calling this issue an “existential threat” to humanity. According to the panel, the issues that are driving global climate change are intrinsically linked to the rise of deadly viruses.

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The median asking rent for a Manhattan home has fallen below $3,000 per month for the first time in nine years, according to a report released Friday from New York City real estate firm StreetEasy. 

The firm’s third-quarter report also marked the first time Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens all recorded year-over-year rent declines since 2010. 

The report comes amid increased vacancies and a struggling rental market since the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City hard earlier this year. 

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While the average asking price has decreased, StreetEasy recorded that rental inventory in Manhattan increased by 69.8 percent in the third quarter, with 72,267 new listings added. According to the firm, this figure is nearly 30,000 more than it was at this time last year. 

Rental discounts have also increased, with the median rental discount in Manhattan hitting 9.1 percent, 5.2 percentage points higher than in 2019. 

“Renters are no longer willing to pay the commute premium of living in Manhattan when they do not need to commute to an office five days a week,” StreetEasy economist Nancy Wu said in an announcement on the report. 

“Landlords across the city, but particularly in Manhattan, have to be willing to face some really hard hits if they want to fill their units,” she added. “They’re being forced to cut the location premium out of their asking price in order to compete with larger and more affordable apartments in the outer boroughs.”

New York was one of the states ravaged by COVID-19 in early months of the pandemic in the U.S., with daily increases in the number of infections reaching as high as nearly 10,800 in April, according to The New York Times coronavirus database. 

Since COVID-19 first hit the city earlier this year, Broadway shows, restaurants and other tourist attractions have been forced to shut down, leading to 896,000 private sector jobs lost between February and April, according to the city’s comptroller office. 

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The city’s unemployment rate reached as high as 20 percent in July, although the New York City Department of Labor reported that this had fallen to 14.1 percent in September.

While the city has been able to significantly limit the number of new infections in recent months, certain areas, including in Brooklyn and Queens, have had new spikes, prompting New York City Mayor Bill de BlasioBill de BlasioDe Blasio’s obsession with racial balance in schools has a clear victim: Asian students Citigroup executive to run for NYC mayor: report Treasury withheld nearly M from FDNY 9/11 health program MORE (D) to implement a two-week closure on nonessential businesses in those communities earlier this month. 

As of Thursday, the New York City Department of Health had recorded a total of 250,489 coronavirus cases, with 58,512 hospitalizations and 19,299 confirmed deaths.

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Twitter temporarily suspended the account of the Trump campaign’s national press secretary on Thursday after he tweeted about being sent an absentee ballot intended for someone else, Fox News reports.

Hogan Gidley was temporarily suspended after he tweeted about receiving an envelope in the mail addressed to someone named Daniel. He attached a screenshot of the envelope marked “Your Official Ballot.” 

“Got ‘my’…uh wait…no…’Daniel’s’ ballot in the mail?!? Who is that? Apparently it’s a former tenant who hasn’t lived in the unit for 8 YEARS!!!,” Gidley tweeted. “But yeah, sure…the mainstream media is correct…unsolicited vote-by-mail is ‘totally safe.’”

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Twitter temporarily suspended the account for “violating our rules against posting misleading information about voting.” 

“You may not post content providing false information about voting or registering to vote,” it said.

The Trump campaign appealed the decision, according to Fox News, and the tweet has since been taken down. His account appears to be running again. 

“I, like many other Americans, received a ballot in the mail that was not meant for me, and that proves what the president has been saying is one hundred percent correct — that there are serious issues with the Democrats’ plan for universal, unsolicited mail in voting,” Gidley told Fox News. 

“Irrationally, inexplicably suspending my Twitter account simply for tweeting about the incorrect ballot is completely insane, and it won’t cover up the fact that Democrats changing the way we vote just weeks before an election is dangerous and fraught with the potential for massive fraud,” he said.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpMore than 300 military family members endorse Biden Five takeaways from the final Trump-Biden debate Biden: ‘I would transition from the oil industry’ MORE and his allies have repeatedly claimed that mail-in voting will lead to widespread voter fraud, despite there being no evidence in support of that. Meanwhile, Twitter has been addressing false information about the alleged risk of mail-in voting.

Twitter slapped a warning label on one of Trump’s tweets in which he claimed that mail drop boxes used for the election would lead to fraud. He said drop boxes could allow people to vote multiple times and suggested they were not “Covid sanitized.”

Twitter also suspended the official account of the Trump campaign last week, saying its tweet of a video about Hunter Biden’s business dealings violated its policies against sharing hacked materials.

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While national election results came as a surprise to political pundits and watchers, what shouldn’t have surprised anyone was the overwhelming support for cannabis policy reform initiatives.

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Seventeen million voters supported legal, regulated programs in their states, sending Washington a powerful message that should guide the marijuana policy approach of our new administration and Congress.

At no point in our nation’s history has there been more support from mainstream America for taking marijuana out of the criminal market and putting it behind a legal, regulated counter.

According to an October 2016 Gallup poll, American support for legalizing cannabis is at 60 percent, the highest it’s been in 47 years. A 2015 Harris poll found a staggering 81 percent of Americans support legalization of marijuana for medical use.

There are now 28 states that have chosen to create regulated marijuana programs, including four of the five most populated states in the nation. More than 20% of the U.S. population lives in states that allow adults 21 and older to legally consume cannabis, and more than 60% of the population lives in a state where medical marijuana access is legal.

That support has grown as existing legal programs have provided access to life-changing treatments for critically ill patients, empowered responsible small business owners over criminal dealers and cartels, and generated valuable economic development, jobs, and revenues for strapped state budgets.

The shift to regulated programs is also having dramatic results on an underground market that steers billions in unregulated, untracked, and untaxed sales to criminal actors. In 2013, U.S. Border Patrol agents seized nearly 2.5 million pounds of marijuana at the border. Just two years later, seizures were down by approximately one million pounds.

These successes have been gained under a federal policy that has respected the will of voters in the states and refrained from interfering with patients, customers, and businesses acting legally under state law.

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That policy of respect for state sovereignty could be challenged under the new presidential administration. President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s nominee to lead the Justice Department, Sen. Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsMcCabe, Rosenstein spar over Russia probe Rosenstein takes fire from Republicans in heated testimony Rosenstein defends Mueller appointment, role on surveillance warrants MORE, has frequently expressed his personal opposition to many of the cannabis reform policies that American voters have chosen.

However, Sen. Sessions has also long advocated for federalism and states’ rights and criticized federal over-reach in law enforcement.

As a candidate, President-elect Trump said more than once that he believes state marijuana programs should be allowed to continue without federal interference. “In terms of marijuana and legalization,” he told the ”Washington Post,” “I think that should be a state issue.”

Federal action against voter-approved cannabis programs would almost certainly provoke substantial backlash. Many of those programs were approved by significant voter margins. All of them feature regulatory programs designed and administered by state and local government authorities, including licensing and tax collections.

A Department of Justice crackdown on state-compliant cannabis businesses would put federal law enforcement in conflict not only with the majority of American voters but also with governors, state legislatures, and state and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies. It would also send billions of dollars back to criminals and cartels.

Continuing a policy of federal non-interference with state cannabis programs would be consistent with Republican Party and Trump administration support for small businesses, job creation, and economic growth.

The legal cannabis industry in the U.S. was worth approximately $5.5 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach $21.8 billion by 2020. In Colorado alone, the cannabis industry has already created more than 18,000 jobs. A recent study determined that every dollar spent on retail marijuana in Colorado generated $2.40 in economic impact. 

The vast majority of this value is being created by small businesses — entrepreneurial efforts built from the ground up, including not just cannabis cultivators and retailers, but also innovators in areas like energy-efficient equipment, software, and packaging.

It’s even more remarkable that cannabis businesses are still managing to help patients and customers, while creating jobs and tax revenue, despite facing a multitude of challenges due to conflicts between state and federal laws.

Restrictions on banking access for cannabis businesses create threats to the safety of employees and communities and make accounting transparency more difficult.

Extreme federal taxation that treats law-abiding, tax-paying cannabis businesses like criminals stymies economic growth and limits businesses’ ability to serve patients and re-invest in their communities.

We urge Congress and the incoming administration to continue the policy of federal non-interference and work together to address the challenges that legitimate, state-sanctioned cannabis businesses face in accessing financial services and navigating the federal tax regime.

Doing so would help sick patients, empower responsible small business owners, improve public safety, and secure economic growth. It would also respect the will of the voters and the laboratories of democracy on which our nation is built.

Aaron Smith is co-founder and executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, the largest trade association representing legal cannabis businesses in the U.S and the only one dedicated to promoting fair treatment of responsible cannabis businesses at the federal level.

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