subcommittee on information technology and government affairs will come to order. i recognize myself for five minutes for my opening statement. good afternoon. thanks for being here, and it s been over 240 years since our forefathers declared independence and a democratic experiment began. throughout the entirety of our existence our adversaries both internal and external have sought to suppress. our existence as a democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. today we re here to talk about the best way to protect our integrity of our voting systems. there are over 10,000 election jurisdictions nation wide-that administer elections. and even within states counties use different systems to conduct elections. a year ago last september ranking member kelly and i held a hearing ensuring the integrity of the ballot box to discuss potential issues with the up coming election. it was an issue then and remains an issue now. the former secretary has made clear to the best
technology and government affairs will come to order. i recognize myself for five minutes for my opening statement. good afternoon. thanks for being here, and it s been over 240 years since our forefathers declared independence and a democratic experiment began. throughout the entirety of our existence our adversaries both internal and external have sought to suppress. our existence as a democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. today we re here to talk about the best way to protect our integrity of our voting systems. there are over 10,000 election jurisdictions nation wide-that administer elections. and even within states counties use different systems to conduct elections. a year ago last september ranking member kelly and i held a hearing ensuring the integrity of the ballot box to discuss potential issues with the up coming election. it was an issue then and remains an issue now. the former secretary has made clear to the best of his knowledge the russians
information technology and intergovernment affairs will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. i recognize myself for five minutes for my opening statement. good afternoon. thanks for being here, and it s been over 240 years since our forefathers declared independence and a democratic experiment began. throughout the entirety of our existence, our adversaries, both internal and external, have sought to suppress our democratic process. our existence as a democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. today, we re here to talk about the best way to protect our integrity of our voting systems. there are over 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide that administer elections, and even within states, counties use different systems to conduct elections. a year ago, last september, ranking member kelly and i held a hearing ensuring the integrity of the ballot box to discuss potential issues with the upcoming election. it
technical question but upon real issues of policy and governance that effect the globe all the way around. it is those accountability measures that haven t been test driven yet. before the transition was announced. the accountability of icann such as it was depended upon essentially the u.s. government s exercise of soft power. the persuasion behind the scenes, if you will so it wasn t an explicit control and secretary strickland is right about that, but nonetheless, it was implicit in many ways. that s what s going away. that sortth soft power control and what is coming in instead set of accountability measure that is will lead to empowered community that has the ability to, essentially, that has been tested in suggesting that the need for testing arises. i m not flying alone out there. that s what the i can board suggested earlier when the community suggested the sole membership model. they said that if that was the model to be presented and the path forward, it may be prud
sensors, why did this not get detected? and owe the answer is and you can tell if you look at the map that nobody thought to put these sensors around the white house or around the high-income areas of washington, d.c. so it was never measured. so it wasn t actually applied in this case to a wealthy area. we should look at how we apply it to accept the widest set of individuals. we need to talk about collaboration coordination. one of the interesting questions i think for government right now, is to ask themselves why didn t we create uber? if you think about this, you know, the problem that uber tried to solve, the really fundamental problem of matching passenger to drivers is really a taxi problem, this was something that cities and states knew they had. they were familiar with rolling out technology, they had done this in the past but they didn t probably the number one reason this problem is solved because they wanted to solve their own needs. they weren t saying all these