Starting with what you will see before you. And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not
Hello everybody welcome to the brookings event on election and here at the Brookings Institute to have several colleagues to join me for an indepth discussion on this topic we will do a twopart event today starting with what you see before you. With the integrative process and then as second panel on the problems tackling this implication with a campaign were in the midst of. And with those keynote remarks some one from someone on the front lines. And the infrastructure security with the department of homeland security. And with they are doing with those t issues and then to go into a discussion with mark harvey with the National Security council for the person in charge of coordinating all of the initiatives. And with Election Security and integrity. And at the Harvard Institute of politics will also trying to work with the outreach on those issues and to understand whats involved on the various issues and to be and in the midterms. And with the organization especially devoted with th
Event today starting with the panel that you see before you which are going to focus on safeguarding Election Security to the integrity of the e Electoral Systems and process. We have a second panel that will begin at 3 15 on the problems of tackling disinformation, the implications for the Election Campaign that were in the midst of for the election in 2020. Werere delighted to be able to start off today with keynote remarks from someone whos on die front line of this, a great thlleague of mine, chris krebs, who is thee director for Cyber Security and infrastructure security of the department of ry Homeland Security. He has a whole agency he directs that is completely devoted to the subject of todays panel, and were really grateful as chris iss coming right from thei frontlines of dealing with these issues that hes got some time o to spend with us today. Chris is going to give us an overview of what the government is trying to do to tackle this issue head on. And then were going to go
And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not least and that many of you will know in the
Airr first opportunity to their differences and views. We willlimits although keep track of speaking time to keep things relatively even. Cover a lot of ground so brevity is appreciated. We encourage you to talk to each since were asking our audience not to applaud during to take a, wed like minute to give senator ed markey and congressman joe kennedy a hand. [applause] thank you so much for joining us. Ory. Congressman kennedy, why are defeat a mano whos championed so many support . You rep. Kennedy thank you for everyone being here and those tuning in around the country. This election, this time around, about f what we care everything that we care about, is on the line. At stake for us, for our party, our commonwealth and counts. Try, this one and for this moment, we have to have a united you states senator that go giving have tong you possibly guide our party and commonwealth through it. That means at this moment, massachusetts, this is not a swing state and this is not a swing seat