Event today starting with the panel that you see before you which are going to focus on safeguarding Election Security to the integrity of the e Electoral Systems and process. We have a second panel that will begin at 3 15 on the problems of tackling disinformation, the implications for the Election Campaign that were in the midst of for the election in 2020. Werere delighted to be able to start off today with keynote remarks from someone whos on die front line of this, a great thlleague of mine, chris krebs, who is thee director for Cyber Security and infrastructure security of the department of ry Homeland Security. He has a whole agency he directs that is completely devoted to the subject of todays panel, and were really grateful as chris iss coming right from thei frontlines of dealing with these issues that hes got some time o to spend with us today. Chris is going to give us an overview of what the government is trying to do to tackle this issue head on. And then were going to go
Supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, but theyre even worse. And we just want people to understand that these times are hard, but we have a pandemic in ou
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And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not least and that many of you will know in the
The minutes should so reflect, thank you. Great. Should we include that amendment on the minutes . Directors, are there any additional callers at this time . Operator you have two questions remaining. So for members of the public on the line, this is an opportunity to comment on approval of the minutes from the june 16th regular meeting. If you would like to comment on the minutes, please state your name and we will start your two minutes. Hello . Operator sorry, hit the wrong button. Operator you have zero questions remaining. With that, well close Public Comment and directors, do i have a motion for the approval of the minutes from the 16th. Motion to approve. Second. All in favour. Do we have to do role call . Yes, madam chair. role call . The minutes are approved in a 40 vote. Item 5. As some of may know, we lost a member, art curtis, who passed away with a long battle with brain cancer. In his early union, he fulfilled his dream with sfmta driving trolley buses and conductor on th