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the head of the country's cyber security
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agency says election infrastructure is
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more secure than ever but she warns we
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have to protect against those trying to
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influence the election and violence
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against election workers box first Sean
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Rab in studio with takeaways from a
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virtual news conference that just
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happened Sean yeah Blake the Cyber and
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infrastructure security agency sisa was
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created after Russia's attempts to
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influence the 2016 presidential election
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the director holding a virtual news
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conference for Texas and surrounding
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states as news breaks today that China
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hackers tried to hack cell phones
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belonging to Republican Presidential
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nominee Donald Trump and his running M
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JD Vance the way we vote in the US
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decentralized not online and different
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by state is what Jen easterly head of
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the cisa says strengthens our election
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process and makes it next to impossible
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for a malicious actor to hack voting
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machines in a way that would have a
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material outcome on the election without
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their efforts being detected but that
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does not mean we can let our guard down
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we do have to recognize that the threat
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environment has never been more complex
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there are cyber threats from ransomware
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and distributed denial of service
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attacks on websites there are very real
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threats from our foreign adversaries
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like Russia Iran and China who are
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conducting malign influence operations
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and disinformation with two key goals in
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mind first to undermine American
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continents in the Integrity of our
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elections and more broadly trust in our
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Democratic institutions and to stoke
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partisan Discord to pit Americans
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against each other and we cannot allow
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that easterly says there are also very
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concerning threats to election officials
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bullying and threats of violence to
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election officials of both parties and
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their families all stemming from
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unfounded claims that the 2020 election
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did not represent the will of the
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American people and and she said there
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is quote a firehouse of disinformation
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happening all across the country adding
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the best source of information is your
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local and state election officials not
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some post from some voice on social
