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Each election security professional who leaves government service, like Ken Matta, is a Jenga block pulled from our teetering tower of democracy.

Greece is already a leader, ranked #1 in cybersecurity in a global survey by Estonia – the U.S. was #21! – so we want to have a true conversation next month, where we can learn from you as we share what we know

Greece is already a leader, ranked #1 in cybersecurity in a global survey by Estonia – the U.S. was #21! – so we want to have a true conversation next month, where we can learn from you as we share what we know

You mention voter i.d. what about the latter issue? >> well, ive obviously been very clear that i believe that the secretary of state should be the chair of the state election board. but be that as it may, when you have a county that cant run an election well, and fulton county hasnt run elections well since 1993, long before i was here, we finally have a process of a bipartisan review panel that can look at their procedures. and say, are you going to improve it, and whats your plan of action? i...

Against all odds, election officials delivered a safe and secure election during a public health crisis. But a year later, they are looking for innovative ways to restore public trust in their work.

Election. it was people. it was people like you, secretary raffensperger. are you worried if this happens again, a different result will come out of it? >> to your point, thats why integrity counts and thats why it counts at my position, and all your poll workers. when you think about it in georgia, we have over 2,500 precincts. we have thousands upon thousands of precinct workers, poll workers that volunteer their time, get paid very little for 14-hour days and those are your neighbors and peop...

>> well, what we saw in georgia after the election is we had poll workers -- in fact, we had some poll workers who were followed home in bartow county which went over 75% of president trump, followed home. thats the kind of intimidation that should never occur. a young poll worker was threatened along with his family members because he had a unique last name kind of like i do. that should never happen. we had election directors. if you have an election and your poll workers dont show up, what ar...

Record straight. it is a fact-based book. i am a structural engineer so i am good with numbers so i provide you all the data. but the end of the day, when what it gets done it personal s integrity, law enforcement does it every day. election directors do it. i walk that line of integrity and made sure we have fair and honest elections in georgia in 2020. >> i want to play the portion of your call with the former president on january 2nd because i dont think a lot of people can imagine what its l...

Based on this whole lie? >> good evening, anderson. well, first off, i wrote "integrity counts" to set the record straight. its a fact-based book. im a structural engineer so im good with numbers, so i provide you all the data. at the end of the day, what it gets down to is personal integrity. law enforcement does it every day. they walk that thin blue line. election directors do at, and as secretary of state ive walked that line of integrity and made sure we had fair and honest elections in geo...

Book. at the end of the day, if you boil it all down, if we dont get back to the most basic of things, whics integrity, we are not going to fix anything. we have to have integrity at all levels. at your election directors. they fight hard for that. they want to make sure they run an honest and fair election. you want to make sure they are people of integrity, they wont tilt to the side of whatever their party leanings are. it gets down to integrity. >> i agree on integrity. let me ask you this. ...