Day. Is a hallow growing up, my dad served in world war ii, in the navy, and people were called to serve and then we had korea, vietnam and the people serving today. So we can never forget and we can never give them enough thanks for what they have done for this nation. One of the things they fought for is for our right, our freedom to have free and fair elections. So that is at the end of day what we really need to be mindful, particularly in our office as we work finishing up , and closing out the election we just had a. Also want to do, give a heartfelt thanks to the minute standing with me here today. These are election of directors from across georgia. They represent large counties, small counties, diverse counties and just all over the state of georgia. They and their staff are the ones that do the hard work on the ground of making sure that all legal votes will be counted. Their job is hard. They executed their and they didies their job. This is a process. It is a process define
Campaigns. Floridas secretary of state joined the tampa lawyers chapter of the Federalist Society for this hourlong forum. A piece on the president. Thank you for joining us for our event today, election 2020, securing the vote in the age of cybersecurity, misinformation, and pandemics. We are glad to be joined by our speaker as well as 13 circuit judge, the moderator. Before i turn it over to the judge, a couple housekeeping items. We are looking forward to returning to in person soon as possible but we are still doing these virtual events. Our first event will be october 1, cohosting with the sarasota and polk county chapters, featuring a judge from the sixth Circuit Court of appeals to discuss a new book, the essential scalia. That is october 1 and will be via zoom at 12 00 as well. Just a quick housekeeping item on our event today. If you have any questions at the end, there is a q and a function at the bottom of your screen. We will go to your question and pass along to our speake
It seems very much that the department of justice are in the headlines about all whats going on in t the country, if its not the protests in portland or in kenosha, if its not issues about covid and restrictions and whether they should be followed or not, if its not about the election and concerns about the legality of the election at the procedures to the election, not to mention the number of cases that involve administrative officials and the dojs role as those cases go through the system. We have a lot to talk about today at of what to start with the big question, and the big question is, does this look different to you . Doesnt look like a different environment than would you,ik fr example, the two of you at department of justice, or are we just overreacting . Lets begin with you because you were there the longest time ago, josh larocco come seeking give us some recent history. And i have the gray hairs. Thanks, karen. Its good to be here. I thought i would start with come to ques
Restrictions and whether they should be followed or not, if it is not about the election and concerns about the legality of elections, procedures to the election, not to mention the number of cases involving Administration Officials and the doj role as those cases through the system. I think we have a lot to talk about. I want to start with the big question. Does it really look different to you . Doesnt look like a different environment when the two of you were at the department of justice . Are we just overreacting . We are talking about National Security today in particular, what does it look like over the last number of years, bringing us up to the present moment. In getting ready for todays conversation, i decided to go and look at the recent press releases, recent announcements on cases, see what is being publicly announced. I went back to the beginning of august, end of july. Drowning this conversation in National Security, i saw any number of cases in the National Security realm
Talks about changes to the pandemic and foreign interference. This was hosted by the federalist society. Thank you for joining us today. Election 2020, securing the vote in the age of cybersecurity, misinformation, and pandemics. We are glad to be joined by our speaker as well as 13 circuit judge, the moderator. Before i turn it over to the judge, a couple housekeeping items. We are looking forward to returning to in person soon as possible but we are still doing these virtual events. Our first event will be october 1, cohosting with the sarasota and polk county chapters, featuring a judge from the sixth Circuit Court of appeals to discuss a new book, the essential scalia. Book, the essential scalia. That is october 1 and will be via zoom at 12 00 as well. Just a quick housekeeping item on our event today. If you have any questions at the end, there is a q and a function at the bottom of your screen. We will go to your question and pass along to our speaker. So now i will introduce our