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Include jesse hollands, reporter for the Associated Press and author of marvels the black panther. I do not know if we will have questions about that today. [laughter] dr. Berger where the Vice President and Founding Editor of and a professor of law at Georgetown University law center and executive director of the center on conventional studies at georgetown law. She is chief Legal Counsel for Vice President biden and the legal staff for the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being here. We would like to get started right away by giving an opportunity for one of our panelists to speak to a question that has not come up yet the original purpose, if you will, of government long before we thought of government as making policy. People looked to government for the protection of their rights, and you have written about this. Tell us more about what is meant by that, the original purpose of government. Thank you for letting me be a part of this ev
Technology law and policy. Okay everybody, time to be seated. So our next panel as you can see, this is the only flight you will see for the whole panel because youre breaking free of powerpoint area theme of this panel is Voter Suppression and voter turnout and in particular, the roles that Network Technologies play in Voter Suppression and voter turn out from a variety of different perspectives. Another way to think of it is pulling back the curtain of it and getting into the technological underbelly of some of the things that the prior panel discuss. Once again, we have a fantastic panel of experts from multiple perspectives, backgrounds and disciplines and im not going to repeat everything thats in the program. But just briefly, to my immediate left here is Karen Bonfield who is a senior policy analyst in the Economic Security and Opportunity Initiative right here at georgetown law and our center on poverty and inequality and she comes from a Public Policy background. We have been