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Will go back to the auditorium at the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. Senior fellow, thank you both to those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference we focused on issues of surveillance oversight and this years conference or this morning you heard about an array of institutions and entities and persons who work to oversee the secret use of intelligence collection. This ranges from the pfizer court to the inspectors general to government, billy office to the Intelligence Committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseen the Intelligence Committee is the piracy and Civil Liberties oversight board. Its a number of valuable reports that have given us unique insights into the programs weve heard discussed earlier such as section 702 and section 215 the authority used for the phone records collection program. Im sure it will be a fascinating discussion so i will pass it off to ou
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Were going talk about the 2020 election with david beckert whos the cofounder ander executive director of the center for election and innovation research. Tell us about the work they do. We were founded in 2016 after i worked for several years in te pew team. Conven before that i was enforcing federal voting laws. Oninno we work to ensure the security of the overall election in the United States and work to improve access for all voters. Youre a dottering, so your. A nonprofit. How were you founded . By foundations and other est donors. We are completely nonpart sarn w andha nonprofit. Looking back to the 2016 b election, whats the biggest lesson that youou personally an your group learned from that . I think what weve learned, o that have re facts been presented by both parties,e the Senate Intelligence sp committee,osal. Burr and warner foreign adversaries are going to try and undermine us. Theyre going to try to attack our election infrastructure. They attacked the illinois data bas