At any time. Ill now recognize myself for five minutes for my Opening Statement. Good afternoon. Thanks for being here. Its been over 240 years since our forefathers declared independence and a democratic experiment began. Throughout the entirety of our existence our adversaries have sought to suppress our voting process. Voting is one of our fundamental rights. Our existence as a democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. Today we are here to talk about the best way to protect the integrity of our Voting Systems bu the cybersecurity of our Voting Machines and election systems. There are over 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide that administer elections and even within states, counties use different systems and different technologies to conduct elections. Over a year ago, last september. Ranking member kelly and i held a hearing in the subcommittee titled cybersecurity and sharing the integrity of the ballot box to discuss potential cybersecurity issues with the upcom
At any time. I recognize myself for five minutes for my opening statement. Good afternoon. Thanks for being here and its thanks for being here and its 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. Our existence as a democracy today, were 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 was an issue then and remains an issue now. The former secretary has made clear to the best of his knowledge the rus
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 its 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, were 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 was an issue
Marissa mayer is she was hired to be a coder at google. She was hired to be someone who literally makes the programs. Her first big project was supposed to be like googles first ad delivery system, you know . Google makes billions and billions of dollars off of ads, and she was going to make the first one. And it was taking her months and monthses and months to do. Google went out and hired someone named jeff dean and this sort of shocked the industry because jeff dean is a superstar. Hes really known for being one of the best coders on the planet. And he did the project that meyer had been work on in a matter of weeks. And mayer, you know, to her credit sort of looked at this and said is, you know, she loved working at google and she said im not going to make my mark at this company by being a coder. Is so she said what else can i do. So she sort of threw herself at whatever problems the company had. You know she actually got involved in pr and marketing and all sorts of strange thing
Looking at how do i put encryption and make it so no one can mess with the device other things that might have impact on People Living there. First off we noticed to make sure the government doesnt weaken encryption. Second of all we need to continue to see the growth in the kinds of research around encryption that is in some cases supported by the government. Anyone else . I share his comments. Also going back to the garage door opener. When that was introduced it was primitive, it was a fun thing to do to drive around the neighborhood and open up other peoples garage doors or similarly other peoples telephones. By todays standards it was relatively primitive even though novel then. As weve gotten more sophisticated, memory chips have grown, theres solutions and we dont hear about those problems anymore. It hasnt been an issue. Thank you. The reality is significant investment is made in innovating around privacy and security because its the right thing to do and consumers are demandin