City Club of Boise Virtual Conversation: COVID-19, Cybersecurity and Idaho's Elections
Wed, Oct 07
|Zoom meeting
A conversation with Idaho Deputy Secretary of State Chad Houck, Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane, Idaho County Clerk Kathy Ackerman and Boise State political science professor Jaclyn Kettler on how state and local officials are preparing to ensure that your vote is heard.
Time & Location
Oct 07, 2020, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom meeting
About the Event
More than four in ten Americans — equally from both main political parties — say they are not too confident or not at all confident that the general election will be conducted fairly and accurately in November, according to a survey from the Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project.
A federal judge blocked operational and policy changes made by the U.S. Postal Service that have slowed mail delivery, saying they amounted to “voter disenfranchisement.”
Despite little historic evidence of voter fraud across the country, about a quarter of the country and nearly half of Republicans believe it is a "major problem." But intelligence officials have confirmed widespread attempts at foreign manipulation of the 2016 election and the current FBI director said in September that his agency has seen "very active efforts by the Russians to influence our election in 2020."
And through it all the worldwide pandemic makes it potentially…