Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
Policy i will be monitoring our conversation today by collier and the cofounder vote with the Election Reform Program at the center for justice. So feel free to drop your questions and the chat below. And miller voters than ever were voting early and as we talk about alternatives a lot of people are asking about Going Digital asig well. So i would you even want online voting . Here in Seattle Washington we have a robust mail and Ballot System what that conversation would look like. The appeal is enormous and in theory it has largely been attempted in the country for people is a of the in the polls so convincingly that if we somehow have a robust online Voting System that would drastically increase voter participationld but this country doesnt have really great numbers that would actually show up on election day in the paper so engage. And those in a given election its. And you also need to keep in mind there is a nontrivial amount then effectively use the postal ballot or mail and Ball
Curfews have lifted in many cities but remain in new york as we go into another weekend of protests. A Record Number of National Guard troops have been deployed. The mayor of washington, d. C. , has asked President Trump to withdraw troops. For what it means i want to bring in abigail doolittle. Talk about the ups and the downs today. Abigail investors squarely focused on the jobs report that came in better than anybody expected. The estimate was for a loss of 7. 5 million jobs. Instead we had an ad of 2. 5 million, which is great news for folks in those new jobs and for the folks who did not lose their job. As for the stock market, of course we had this debate about whether stock should be up so much since the march lows. This Economic Data, you could make the case that stocks have been right. Who was such as myself questioning stock should be high against the real world is wrong although one month does not make a trend. Lets see if that continues. Some say there could be more waves a
[singing] anchor and playing in perfect haharmony, mususicians around te world come together for a performance of a lifetime. Anchor welcome to the program. Coronavirus is racing through the african continent. Infections have doubled to 200,000 in less than three weeks and the outbreak is spreading from urban centers into the hinterlands, where medical services are already stretched. The World Health Organizations warning cases will continue to rise until a vaccine is found. 90 days, africa will reach 100,000 coronavirus infections, and only 19 to pass the 200,000 mark. The World Health Organization says infections in africa are spreading fast from urban to rural communities. Those areas dont have adequate access to health care or preventative measures. One of the Biggest Challenges we face continues to be the availability of supplies, particularly test kits. This is a disruption to the Global Supply chain. Other mechanisms are in place to address these shortages, including work done b
There is an insufficient regulatory structure in this sector. And in the 2019 Election Security hearing the Brennan Center for justice road his testimony called mac there are more federal regulations for margin one magic markers than Voting Systems and election infrastructure. There may be work for Congress Many have concerns with Remote Access and software we want to make sure companies no longer sell Voting Machines with Network Capabilities in 2019 a group of Election Security experts in ten states would connect to the internet despite one claim the systems were not. We need to understand supply chain. December 2019, a Study Released by a supply chain Monitoring Company 20 percent of the components in a popular voting machine came from a china based company. And furthermore close to two thirds or 59 percent had locations in either china or russia. I have also heard concerns about ownership and control of vendors in public reporting indicates all three major people represented are pa