And officials expect the turnoff to soar in the next couple days. Early voting is underway with polling places open for people who would like to vote in person. This is uncharted territory for us. Because typically we are only open on election day. It will be interesting to see how well utilized this option is and if we will continue to offer this in future election cycles. She expects to seek record turnout this year. So far 122,000 vote by mail ballots have been project collected in marin. Sunday, a steady stream of cars was seen at the dropbox. This Election Year is more important than anything that has happened in our lifetimes. And so it was really important to make sure our voice counted. Reporter representative barbara lee is making sure every vote is cast and counted. This includes staying in contact with the post office to make sure there are no delays. Having similar senator Kamala Harris brings excitement. With senator harris on this is a remarkable historical moment here to
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Excited with todays discussion. We are glad to be joined by our parents. He serves as the liaison to elected officials. And other constituencies throughout the chicago and metro region. He supports the development. We also have the ambassador investor who is a senior fellow. The cambridge global advisors. Our motto in there today is jake burns. The ceo of cambridge global advisors. He teaches Cyber Security policy. For the Cyber Security. Please join me in welcoming the panel. [applause]. Welcome. As i was mentioned. The cyber policy at the university of chicago. I want to thank the council for having us here today. Just to put in a plug for the organization. Is definitely worth every penny. Its fitting that we have this event here in january. The first event i did on Election Security last year was in january on the stage. Whats going on with tech in the elections. In that panel which i think was one of the first in the country was really the first one saint saying what the heck does
Make preparations that someone needs you there, and i felt that way. To end a, sunday night on cspan. Next, a look at Election Security ahead of the 2018 midterms, i Security Officials warned that russia and others tried to influence the 2018 elections and set the department is trying to limit those threats to election systems. Well hear from former nato deputydor and the assistant security at home and security, and Cyber Security advisor to the pentagon. From the Chicago Council on global affairs, this is one hour. Evening our panel will examine the issue of critical importance of United States, democracy, the portal systems to external interference. Our panelists will discuss the and how the threat government should respond with. Midterm primaries a few weeks away in some states this is an important subject. Where joint and a panel of experts, but unfortunately two beour panelists will not able to attend tonight, but nonetheless we are excited with todays discussion and are excited w