All right. Better late than never, the meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you whd past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will a
Directors, government representatives and International Technology companies to talk about what state and local governments need to improve their systems. if you could silence your cell phones electronics i would appreciate it. Im going to take the role now. Vice chair ben hovland. Commissioner thomas hicks. We have a quorum of the commission. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today at the u. S. Election system to examine the security challenge Election Security faces ahead of the 2020th president ial election. This vital conversational providers with a better understanding of ways the commission can help jurisdictions address a variety of Security Issues including those that stem from aging Voting Technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act of 2002 that established the eac is the only federal entity solely focused on supporting Elections Officials on the voters they serve. Part of our charge is to be the nations clearinghouse of information on the Election Admini
Allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. If you could silence your cell phones and electronics i would appreciate it. Im going to take the role. Good afternoon, thank you for joining us at the u. S. Election tosistence commission, examine the security challenge Election Administration faced to head of the 2020 president ial election. This little conversation will provide us with a better understanding of ways the commission can help, address a variety of Security Issues, including those that stem from aging voting technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act it established the eac as the only federal entity solely focused on supporting Election Officials and the voters they serve. Part of our charges to be the nations clearinghouse of information on Election Administration. It is this responsibility that brings us here today and guides our Election
It is important because a lot of people say, it is one of the top issues that people contact me about, it is also the top issue that the fcc and the ftc receive every year, it is about robocalls. People say, i thought i signed up for this do not call list, what happened . Unfortunately, you signed up, but the calls are coming from overseas. There has been great work that has occurred on this. Not only in congress, but with the fcc and the carriers. Earlier this year, in the meetings i had with the fcc, what we are going to see is they have call identification. It is called stir shaking technology, when that call originates, when you look at your phone, you will know that is who the call is coming from. It will not be spoofed. Spoofing is when someone thinks, i am answering a call from my daughter, friend, doctor, but it is just to make you pick the call up. At the same time, you will say that is exactly what the call is. Our legislation makes it congressman doyle from pennsylvania, cha
Id appreciate it. Im going to take the role now, vice chair. Present. Commissioner palmer. Here. Commissioner thomas hicks. Here. So we have a quorum of the commission. Good afternoon, i thank you for joining us today as the u. S. Election Assistance Commission convenes an Election Security forum for the security challenge Election Administrators face ahead of the 2020 president ial election. This vital conversation will provide us with a better understanding of ways the commission can help jurisdictions address a variety of Security Issues, including those that stem from aging Voting Technology. When Congress Passed the help america vote act of 2002, it established the eac as the only federal entity solely focused on Election Officials and voters they serve. Part of our charge is to be the nations clearinghouse on Election Administration. It is this responsibility that brings us here today and guides our Election Security efforts. Eac prides itself addressing significant issues and th