good morning. a call to order this hearing of the rules committee on the administration of upcoming elections. i d like to thank ranking member blunt and our colleagues who are here, with more to come, for being here. our witnesses, who i will introduce shortly, her acting secretary of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, chapman. i want to thank you, you have a few things going on, i believe. given hewitt, it s productive and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law, and tammy patrick, the senior adviser for elections that democracy fund. we are also going to hear from two witnesses who will be introduced by senator blunt i. thank you for being here, louisiana secretary of state ardoin and wesley wilcox, a supervisor of elections for marion county, florida. in 2020, we saw election officials across the country rise to the challenge of holding elections in a global pandemic. and we thank every one of you for that. thanks in large part to the work
sen. klobuchar: goodmorning. i call the order of this hearing of the rules committee on upcoming elections. i would like to thank my colleagues for being here. our witnesses who i will introduce shortly are acting secretary of the commonwealth of pennsylvania chapman. i want to thank you. damon hewitt, who is the president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. tammy patrick the senior advisor for elections for democracy fund. we will hear from two witnesses who will be introduced by senator blunt. i thank you for being here. louisiana secretary of state ardoin and wesley wilcox the supervisor of elections for marion county, florida. in 2020 we saw election officials across the country rise to the challenge of holding elections in a global pandemic. we thank everyone of you for that. thanks to the work of the local election officials and volunteers. and everyone who took part, we had more options for americans to cast a ballot and becaus
rules and administration committee on how the federal government can assist with election security and infrastructure. the witnesses talked about technical issues, procedures for mail-in voting, and needing funding to upgrade equipment. this is one hour and 45 minutes. sen. klobuchar: goodmorning. i call the order of this hearing of the rules committee on upcoming elections. i would like to thank my colleagues for being here. our witnesses who i will introduce shortly are acting secretary of the commonwealth of pennsylvania chapman. i want to thank you. damon hewitt, who is the president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. tammy patrick the senior advisor for elections for democracy fund. we will hear from two witnesses who will be introduced by senator blunt. i thank you for being here. louisiana secretary of state ardoin and wesley wilcox the supervisor of elections for marion county, florida. in 2020 we saw election officials across
The partnership with the Stimson Center and enables to put on that dignity is like this. I have a very simple job this morning to introduce our moderator for today, larry jacobs professor of walter and Joe Montville professor study of politics at the department of Political Science at the university of minnesota. He also directs the tenor for this study of politics and governance and he is a prolific author and scholar in writing and some of the most important issues of the day. In the last year or two where he has authored books i can think of unfettered power, Health Care Reform in american politics in an important study on politics and Public Opinion as well. We are delighted to have the university of minnesota and to serve as moderator of this panel. The floor is yours. Thank you very much. A lot of people know dean sorts for the service and the diplomatic corps and im here from minnesota to tell you hes also announced the ending dean. Seen a tremendous rise in funding for scholars
Disciplinary resources. Anyway, thank you. Coming up on cspan3, a Panel Considers Donald Trumps claims that the election is rigged. Then a look at money in politics and efforts to engage millennial voters. After that, a look at Political Polarization and how pluralism could bridge the gap. And later, remarks by education secretary john king on civil engagement. Next, a panel on allegations made by republican president ial candidate donald trump that the election is rigged. The university of minnesota hosted election scholars on election equipment safeguards, Voter Registration and concerns about russian hacking. This is about 90 minutes. Would you say pew is your best good morning, everybody, and welcome to this event on can u. S. Elections be rigged . My name is eric schwartz. Im the dean at the university of minnesota. And wed like to thank the Stimson Center for serving as a venue for this. Were at the Humphrey School delighted by our new partnership with the Stimson Center and enab