Brookings Panel on Cybersecurity in U.S. Elections

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🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The evidence of foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. elections emphasizes the significant national security threat to our democracy. Last week, Susan Hennessey joined a panel at the Brookings Institution to address the national strategy for protecting U.S. elections with retired four-star general John Allen, Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan, and Dean Logan, the president for the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials. Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow in Foreign Policy, moderated the conversation. Panelists explored the nuances of impacted voter confidence in the broader context in which elections occur, as well as addressed the current cybersecurity risks in election infrastructure.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:32.6	At an ultimately comes down not just to a question of cybersecurity but one of
0:37.0	messaging. There is a sense in which we can have the conversation about how
0:41.4	vulnerable our election systems are, how uncertain we should be about the
0:45.7	results in a way that actually achieves the end. Because we're all talking
0:49.7	about how insecure it is, all of a sudden Americans are thinking, geez, did we
0:54.1	really elect this person? Can we really trust the outcome of our vote? And in
0:57.9	some ways we have achieved our adversaries on the role. Now the prevention of
1:03.3	that is not just to put our heads in the sand but we do need to have a really
1:07.1	careful conversation that addresses the real vulnerabilities, talks about
1:12.0	solutions in a way that at the same time is sensitive to not wanting to actually
1:17.2	create the bad outcome of undermining that overall confidence. So that's a very
1:21.6	delicate dance and I think it's one reason why it's really important to have
1:25.3	the conversation right now far enough out of the next selections that we can
1:29.3	have sort of a non-political non-partisan conversation about how we're going
1:33.3	to address these issues moving forward. I'm Vanessa Sauner and this is the LawFair
1:37.8	podcast September 16th, 2017, the evidence of foreign interference in the 2016 US
1:44.2	elections emphasizes the significant national security threat to our
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