Cait Conley, a senior advisor to Director Jen Easterly, will "spearhead" efforts to coordinate with state and local governments ahead of the 2020 elections while election security lead Kim Wyman plans to leave government next month.
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threats from nation states like russia, iran, china. you have unprecedented physical security concerns. and then of course you have got rampant disinformation, which can be used by foreign adversaries to sew discord and undermine confidence in the integrity of our elections or to insight physical violence. as you said, though, we have no information about specific or creditable threats to disrupt or compromise infrastructure. but we are working closely with state and local election officials to make sure they have everything that they need on tuesday to run safe and secure elections. one of the reasons why i think the american people should have confidence in the integrity of the election is because we have put so much effort in developing mechanisms around information sharing through the election infrastructure information sharing and analysis center. we have provided all kinds of no cost services. we can always do more, and we