Gentlemen. Pleased on behalf of the Penn State Dickinson School of law, penn state institute for constitutional sciences, the center for democracy and technology, and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, and honestly a very, very important form and symposium. At the outset, i want to thank all of the participants regarding and incredible array of speakers dissipating in the forum. I want to thank the guests who have taken the time to join us this morning, and i also want to reach out and say thank you to cspan for covering something that all of us, i think regardless of republican, democrat, or independent, think is quickly important. It is undisputed that there are people who have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. Indisputable. S we can start with 2016, and i think we can look back before that, we might have seen there were people playing around in that arena, even before that time, so we decided to get these organizations,
Thank you very much. People fromwith dickinson. What we thought we would do with this section is to make it interactive, audience participation. We are very interested. We have many of our panelists that have remained. We would like them to respond and to participate in this session as well. We want to continue our discussion about the disparate provisions and the negative impact of social media. It is appropriate to let colleagues from penn state to initiate the conversation. Gentlemen, you may proceed. Hello. Thirdyear student at Dickinson School of law. Hello, everybody. My name is brian and i am also a thirdyear student. Happy to be here. So if we could, there we have heard a lot of interesting topics. Im glad we have so many excellent experts on hand with us. We are going to start it rolling a little bit. Talk somewhato about the technology hurdles, or if we have thoughts about ways that we can detect or combat short of this maligned social engineering that you see, mostly with mi
Speaker. We are very fortunate in the current climate, in which all of this is happening, that we have perspectives from the Intelligence Community and from the department of defense. So it is a privilege and an honor to welcome to our to welcome our next two speakers who will do a talk with different points of view. Our next speaker is mad lynn madeleine. Principal director for several policy for the office of the secretary of defense. Without further ado, lets get the party started. [applause] i will apologize, a heads up that our colleague will go first, but i am happy is that ok . If that is all right. Ok, so it is not the program, but [laughter] my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce david porter, assistant section chief with the Foreign Influence Task , counterintelligence division. He is joining us today from fbis headquarters. Thank you. [applause] sorry about that. Good morning, everybody. I am david porter, i served as the assistant section chief of the f. B. I. s Foreig
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Well, welcome, everyone. And good morning. We expect a few other members to arrive momentarily, but while were waiting, i think well begin with our Opening Statements. And id like to note that our committee is charged with overseeing the administration of federal elections. And todays hearing will help us fufill the responsibility by providing an opportunity to hear from the vendors of most of our countrys Voting Systems. This is the first time the ceos of the three major vendors have appeared together in a congressional hearing. The companies they represent provide at least 80 of the estimated 350,000 Voting Machines in use today reaching over 100 million registered voters. However, despite their outsized role and the mechanics of our democracy, some have accused these companies of obfuscating and others suggest theres an insufficient regulatory structure for the sector. In the committees may 2019 hearing on Election Security, Lawrence Norden wrote in his testimony, i quote, there are