Should we be looking at that? Is it cumbersome? Is it slow? Is it too expensive?
Catherine Cortez Masto
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Catherine Cortez Masto is the junior United States senator from Nevada, having taken office on January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she made history as the first Latina senator in U.S. history. Before her election to the Senate, Cortez Masto served as the Attorney General of Nevada from 2007 to 2015, where she focused on consumer protection and public safety issues. She has been an advocate for various policies, including healthcare access, immigration reform, and economic development in Nevada.
A lot of this is about voter confidence. We want voters to be confident that their votes count and that they have faith in the franchise.
We do encourage that every state have some sort of audit and that a lot of thought be put into risk-limiting audits.
The new HAVA funds are not enough for all the states to purchase all of the newer voting systems.
I was talking with the Secretary of State's office in the State of Nevada, and one of the things they brought to my attention, as we talked a little bit about the risk-limiting audits.
If states have audits on the books, but they are not conducting them, then that is where the real problem lies.
There is a lot of discussion about risk-limiting audits and whether or not they should be used more broadly across the country.
Would you please provide us with a list of those states that have received those assessments?
I am just curious. How many actually are certified and how many vendors are not certified that are actually in our states and machines that we are using?
Right now, there is not a quorum on the EAC and because there is no quorum, you are unable to pass the Guidelines 2.0.
I also think we can also do automatic voter registration and still secure our elections and make sure everybody has access to vote.
I would add one other thing. When we passed voter ID in Missouri, we actually increased accessibility to the ballot.
This idea that somehow there was widespread voter fraud occurring across this country that needs our immediate attention, which engages in voter suppression, is false.
As legislators, what should we be thinking about to verify that, when Americans are told that their data has been destroyed, that deletion can actually be confirmed?
I'm a very big fan of sharing data between agencies, between law enforcement, but in an appropriate framework.
It is imperative that we as a country invest in a nationwide Alzheimer's public health response.
I think this bill is a critical step in the fight against Alzheimer's and Congress should pass it.
So by creating this idea that this is a public health crisis, we have an infrastructure that now we can all tap into
The idea that this act that we are talking about, the BOLD Act, really sets the tone that this is a public health crisis.
Legislation like the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act will help do that.
There needs to be a greater nationwide public health effort and infrastructure in order to increase early detection and diagnosis.
We must make the public and health care professionals aware of the early signs of Alzheimer's disease.





