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Donald Trump

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Edmund de Waal

Tiffany Shlain

Shannon Watts

Scott Smith

David Katz

Eddie Stern

Mark Zuckerberg

Raj Patel

Sandor Katz

Jay McInerney

Tony Fadell

Michael Murphy

Randy Komisar

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Ben Adida, executive director of the nonprofit Voting Works, discusses how to build more resilient voting systems, the reason for paper ballots, and why the best response to digital warfare is a slower, more considered approach to consuming information.

Ben Adida on Building Better Voting Systems

We have another exciting show for you this week!As the United States gears up for the 2020 election season, many experts are exploring new digital solutions to aid in keeping Americans safe while voting during COVID-19. But what are some of the inherent dangers of online voting? How do we ensure our elections are safe and secure while in the midst of a global pandemic? What are some of the problems a vote-by-mail system helps solve, and some of the inherent issues the same system might present? In today’s episode, you will hear from Ben Adida, Executive Director of the non-partisan nonprofit VotingWorks, and Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Senior Technologist, for the Center for Democracy and Technology, as we discuss the importance of safe and secure elections even during a global pandemic. Let’s get ready to talk tech!More on VotingWorks: https://voting.works/More on Hannah: https://cdt.org/staff/hannah-quay-de-la-vallee/More on CDT’s COVID-19-related work: cdt.org/coronavirusMore on CDT’s election security work: https://cdt.org/collections/election-security/Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.

We have another exciting show for you this week! As the United States gears up for the 2020 election season, many experts are exploring new digital solutions to aid in keeping Americans safe while voting during COVID-19. But what are some of the inherent dangers of online voting? How do we ensure our elections are safe and secure while in the midst of a global pandemic? What are some of the problems a vote-by-mail system helps solve, and some of the inherent issues the same system might present? In today’s episode, you will hear from Ben Adida, Executive Director of the non-partisan nonprofit VotingWorks, and Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, Senior Technologist, for the Center for Democracy and Technology, as we discuss the importance of safe and secure elections even during a global pandemic. Let’s get ready to talk tech! More on VotingWorks: https://voting.works/ More on Hannah: <a href="https://cdt.org/staff/hannah-quay-de-la-vallee/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cdt.org/staff/hannah-quay-de-la-vallee/</a> More on CDT’s COVID-19-related work: <a href="http://cdt.org/coronavirus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cdt.org/coronavirus</a> More on CDT’s election security work: <a href="https://cdt.org/collections/election-security/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cdt.org/collections/election-security/</a> Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of <a href="http://freesound.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">freesound.org</a>.

Tech Talk: Election Security During COVID-19 - Talking Tech w/  Ben Adida & Hannah Quay-de la Vallee

Ben Adida is VP Engineering at Clever, the leading K-12 education platform. His passion is using technology to empower individuals and level the playing field. Ben has extensive experience in identity, payments, voting technology, health IT, security &amp; privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for 20 years and Web software for close to 25 years. He is a Board Member at the non-profit Creative Commons. Previously, Ben was Director of Engineering at Square, Director of Engineering at Mozilla, Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School / Children's Hospital Boston, and research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Ben co-founded three bootstrapped startups: ArsDigita (1998), OpenForce (2000), and Webdash (2005). He received his PhD from MIT's Cryptography and Information Security group. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benadida/     Learn how to scale your engineering team with TalentPath by Treehouse Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook

Ben Adida is VP Engineering at Clever, the leading K-12 education platform. His passion is using technology to empower individuals and level the playing field. Ben has extensive experience in identity, payments, voting technology, health IT, security &amp; privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for 20 years and Web software for close to 25 years. He is a Board Member at the non-profit Creative Commons. Previously, Ben was Director of Engineering at Square, Director of Engineering at Mozilla, Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School / Children's Hospital Boston, and research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Ben co-founded three bootstrapped startups: ArsDigita (1998), OpenForce (2000), and Webdash (2005). He received his PhD from MIT's Cryptography and Information Security group. LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benadida/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/benadida/</a>   Learn how to scale your engineering team with <a href="https://trhou.se/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TalentPath</a> by Treehouse <a href="https://trhou.se/Twitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="../../../content/https" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> <a href="https://trhou.se/LinkedIn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://trhou.se/Facebook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a>