National counsel to the romney for president campaigns and i wont get into it, but he has had a profound effect in our electoral system. You changed america, not in a way that i liked but amazing with what you did. And we would ask each of our witnesses to limit their statements to five minutes and additional statements. Without objection, additional remarks, without objection, will be read into the record. Senator schumer, senator roberts, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity testifying today with my cochair. We discussed in advance how we would organize it so im going to open with some general considerations identified in the report that we asked our readers to keep in mind as we laid out our recommendations and the best practices we identified. And then im going to illustrate the approach we took by talking about the signature issue, the issue most associated with the commission and that is the problem of long lines at the polls. There are a number of other issues
Difference and what is delaying adoption of that one . It is easier to describe how why itke a describe than has been a problem so far. They make a difference because that can be put takeselectronic poll book care of a lot of sort of antiquated paper that is in a place. Much more l up information including signature i. D. And ion and photo cut down on traditional lane problems that have lane that have line problems. They are a low cost simple solution to putting a lot of paper in one place where poll t access it easily. How about the implementation . This goes into the morass we have fallen into with technology. Is that the roblem Certification Program for new systems is fatally broken. New systems are having a great difficulty coming onli online. Because the access it certifica takes so long and is virtually impossible to get some of the solutions are just proving very nettlesome manufacturers to find a market to put them in place. Highlightedaware is in your report as a national eade
What weve learned, adjusted tsa security measures, and are continually evaluating whether more is necessary. Also within the last 48 hours, in response to a very different type of hazard, fema has delivered 95 generators to the state of pennsylvania, where several hundred thousand people are without power due to the snow and cold weather. In the Homeland Security world, no news is good news, and no news is often the result of the hard work, vigilance, and dedication of people within our government who prevent bad things you never hear about, or at least help the public protect itself and recover from the storm we cannot prevent. Our overall challenge within the department of Homeland Security, and within the Homeland Security community of the federal, state and local governments of this nation, is to learn from and adapt to the changing character of the evolving threats and hazards we face. 9 11, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the underwear bomber in 2009, the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill i
Country. Long lines, some have some real problems with long lines. But the best data indicates that in the United States, five million americans waited more than an hour to vote and another five million between a half an hour to an hour and 10 million americans is significant number of people and other jurisdictions who havent had that experience could be significantly at risk if there are not if they are not ajudgments to the electoral process to address problems, like for example, weak voter rolls or inadequate voting machinery and then you would have lines where you didnt have them before. Is this a truly National Problem or is this something that is very localized . I think in our experience, it was pretty localized. Any time you have 10 Million People voting for long periods of time, that would suggest you need a solution to that because it shouldnt happen. We had 130 million voters roughly in the last election and that is a significant number, but it is localized. And what we saw
Guest my books are dot complicated for adults and dot for children. I spent the last eight years working for facebook and build my own company in silicon valley. Theres a whole world people are fascinated in, entrepreneurship, technology, and someone needs to demystify it for everyone else. So dotcomplicated take a look at the crazytech obsessed world we live in and how its changing our careers, lives, and feaments. Host how do you go that . [laughter] guest its interesting. I talk a lot about finding techlife balance. Theres been a lot of talk on worklife balance. If you go home from work and youre still buried in your cell phone. If youre sitting on your laptop next to your husband at home. Youre still working. You havent really found the worklife balance. I talk a lot about how to find techlife balance in your home, in your job, in your love life, in kind of all areas of communication. Host are you saying turn off your devices, go off facebook . Guest you know what . I think theres