The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
Touch and speak polish and meet people from the ruling law and Justice Party was his government guilty of trying to put politics ahead of peoples lives. Welcome to conflict zone. Thank you for having me lets go back to the beginning of this month when your party was still hoping to hold a president ial election donald tusk former Prime Minister of poland said that only a madman or a criminal would proceed with an election during an International Health crisis but you didnt care about the risks to people did you expected to win and that was all that mattered are you trying to say that donald told called people from germany of our europe and from switzerland and from south korea are mad people because this these are the places where elections took place maybe hes calling americans a mad people as they are having their primaries now so we we resign from this idea of elections at the moment but the language is using is unacceptable well you didnt exactly get the support of the National Ele
Everyone please sit down. Know we have people trickling in, but we are starting anyway. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center to those who are physically here and those who will be watching us on cspan and by other means. Harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and former member of congress who is proud of her role in helping create the department of Homeland Security. Today we are pleased to cohost ural Homeland Security Experts Group meeting with support from the miners association, american airlines, and mckinsey. It is the group of the best americann the Homeland Security. It was found over 10 years ago and is now rebooted and housed at the minor corporation. Secretary and my dear friend Michael Chertoff and i are honored to be cochairs, and rob walker is the newly minted director. Mission is to offer independence, nonpartisan advice to key government officials as they face hard security programs, raise awareness, and offer solutions. We are nonpartisan and we hope we add val
Colleague in this panel to discuss my new book how americas Political Parties change and how they dont first a word how we will proceed today we have with us amy walters you see her regularly on the news hour and a host of the take away with amy walter like many of you i read a lot of political commentary she is always fair and doesnt follow the pack she digs into election related data the cofounder of echelon inside the most innovative and interesting of polling and intelligence firms as a pioneer in the Digital World from 17 years ago stating a change how the Republican Party can adapt if you dont read the friday roundup of interesting stories you should sign up for it visiting fellow in senior election analyst for real clear politics has an mba just finished our masters in statistics and now for his phd in Political Science as a coauthor of one of the additions of the almanac of politics that Michael Brown introduced to the world in 1971 with americas individual entry of the idiosyn
Speakers. Thank you, president tommy. We do have one card for in person, so go ahead sir. Testing good afternoon. My name is Chris Tredinnick and im commenting on the cvra letter this past month i finished ten years serving as the board of supervisors appointee to the elections commission. Ive also been an advocate for better election systems for over 20 years. Last meeting i told you, i think Single Member districts would not be a good response to the letter. I also mentioned the idea of proportional ranked Choice Voting or prstv as another option. So thank you for the amendments to the resolution you adopted. I encourage you to see if mr. Rafferty would be open to prstv instead of Single Member districts. This would give you a chance to turn what would have been a negative change into something positive. Pr, cv has a long history of use in the united states, and was even studied by the Elections Task force in the 90s for the supervisor of San Franciscos voting equipment already suppo