Weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today he is a ph. D. Earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth texas, what year was that . It was a while ago. He is an expert so if you get an opportunity to take a class with him take a class so we are going to continue to discuss the civil war thankfully for doctor kine or we get to look at the aspect of weaponry and its impact on the war so without further ado i will hand the close over to doctor kin or a center. Thank you. The theme for todays lecture is going to be about technology of warfare. A lot of our classes we deal with the politics of warfare and just the historical record of warfare but in a lot of it comes down to the individual whos in the field and the weapons that they were issued because that is what you need for warfare. But one thing that i found fascinating in research was looking at the early 19th century, 1800 up ti
Accuracy. All right, guys. How are we all doing today . Welcome to class. Today, as i talked about earlier this week, we have a special lecturer here. Dr. Jeff kinard. You may have a class with him. He is the chair of our history and Political Science program here at ghoul forward Technical Community college. What you may not know about dr. Kinard is that he is a military historian. Hes an expert in military history. He is published at least four books on anything from weaponry, weaponry from the civil war, revolutionary war, he collects a host of artifacts which he has brought and will share with us today. He is a ph. D. He earned his doctorate from Texas Christian University in fort worth, texas. What year was that . It was a while ago. But hes an expert. So if you get an opportunity to take a class with him, take a class. So were going to continue to discuss the civil war, thankfully for dr. Kinard we get to look at the aspect of weaponry and its impact on the war. So without furthe
Overseeing the administration of federal elections. And todays hearing will help us to fill the responsibility by providing an opportunity to hear from the vendors of most of our countrys Voting Systems. This is the first time the ceos of the three major vendors have appeared together in a congressional hearing. The companies they represent provide at least 80 of the estimated 350,000 Voting Machines in use today reaching over 100 million registered voters. However, despite their outsized role and the mechanics of our democracy, some have accused these companies of or f other suggest theres an insufficient regulatory structure for the sector. In the committees may 2019 hearing on Election Security, Lawrence Norden wrote in his testimony, i quote, there are more federal regulations for ballpoint pens and magic markers than there are for Voting Systems and other parts of our election infrastructure. So there may be more work to do and much for congress to learn about this industry. Many
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There is an insufficient regulatory structure in this sector. And in the 2019 Election Security hearing the Brennan Center for justice road his testimony called mac there are more federal regulations for margin one magic markers than Voting Systems and election infrastructure. There may be work for Congress Many have concerns with Remote Access and software we want to make sure companies no longer sell Voting Machines with Network Capabilities in 2019 a group of Election Security experts in ten states would connect to the internet despite one claim the systems were not. We need to understand supply chain. December 2019, a Study Released by a supply chain Monitoring Company 20 percent of the components in a popular voting machine came from a china based company. And furthermore close to two thirds or 59 percent had locations in either china or russia. I have also heard concerns about ownership and control of vendors in public reporting indicates all three major people represented are pa