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
From the military came back and then and they asked the military to come but rescue them from the islamists in this in this country when theres been a lot of political movements like occupy like fifteen and so on a lot of movements a hot huge amount of will behind them had a huge amount of meant. Like the arab spring. Why were these revolutions the only in syria. With the sin in the they were able to see succeed they were in the right and usually answer that and that is because they have a lot of experience of fighting against states in various countries theyre pretty battle hardened and that kind of ideology has been sustained not by. Essentially for for decades and. I dont want to be to contradict it but i think that all due respect they havent been given a chance to build their state to the same extent as lets say the Muslim Brotherhood in egypt has because they have never. Formally came to power sure they can trace in syria but again syria is a war torn country and those conditions
Movements and all of them failed my friends if you look what happened in egypt there were a lot of use sites organized through facebook they went to Tahrir Square to the front the military dictatorship a lot of people were killed in a struggle and they threw out the military dictatorship and then after is it ok now what do we do ok were going to sit down and have a discussion and then they side to talk and in rushed a group of guys with a vision with a plan with an idea that was able to rally enough people behind them to go to take the power and that group was the Muslim Brotherhood and no after the same liberals and from the military came back and then and they asked the military to come but rescue them from the islamists in this in this country when theres been a lot of political movements like occupy like fifteen and so on a lot of movements a hot huge amount of will behind them had a huge amount of meant. Its like the arab spring. Why. Are these revolutions the only in syria. With