Hi everybody, I'm Dan Weber, the Chief Executive Officer for the Election Integrity Foundation.
That's the not-for-profit that is behind DEF CON's 28th Voting Village here in safe mode.
I'm coming to you live from outside of Quantico here in Virginia. And I would really want to
thank you for being part of day one. This kind of marks the end of today's speaker panel.
And all the different speakers that we had today, I mean, it was amazing. We had Senator Wyden,
Representative Jackie Spears, Secretary of State Wyman from Washington. It was quite a phenomenal
day. We really appreciate Martin Mikos' comments, as well as others. And all the speakers spoke
about the problem of making sure that there's not the signed legal disclosures, but really
to make sure that it is more open. And the disparity between some of the voting machine
companies and other things from the government making sure how to appropriately go about
reporting issues that are found within vulnerabilities and such within our election
process. It really does take a village and we really need to have the best and the brightest
involved along the way. Honestly, it looks like from our perspective, we've been taking baby steps
along the way. And there's a lot more that needs to be done. If you listen to Bryson Bort's
Fed panel, and Bryson's obviously a good friend of the Voting Village. He's over there at the
ICS Village as well. But he really brought everybody back around. And it was great to
see a light shone down upon all of the work that our government agencies are doing behind the scenes
to try everything they can in their power and everything that we're trying within us to make
sure that votes are counted in the election. As I said earlier in the opening statements,
really, it's up to us to make sure that people get out and they vote. And I'm saying voting is
at the very core of our democracy. It really is the principle of how we make sure that there are
elections. We also need to make sure that votes are counted so that there is a peaceful transition
of power, and that people believe the votes at the end of the day. You know, if you look at it
today, there are now 18,000, almost 19,000, close to 19,000 now unofficial members of the Discord
channel for Voting Village, and it's just the first day. So we all are taking it very seriously,
and we're very much excited to bring you yet another action-packed day in day two tomorrow
of the Voting Village. But guess what? We're not over yet today. It was really exciting for us
that our friends at HBO, and if you've seen the movie, or I should say the documentary,
Kill Chain, an awful lot of, you know, DEF CONs in there. We have The Dark Tangent,
then we have Mouse, and obviously my business partner and fellow organizer for the Voting
Village, Hari Hirsties, in it. My other partner, Maggie McAlpine, is in the video. It's just a,
it really does take a village. I also want to point out all the extraordinary efforts behind
the scenes of Mary Hanley in keeping us all on track so that, you know, we could bring this
to you today. Obviously, there's been a few little glitches along the way. It's our first time ever
doing this, you know, in this era of the pandemic. But tonight, though, we can, and even all the way
through Sunday evening at 11.59 p.m., HBO has opened up Kill Chain for you to sit there and
watch on YouTube. Tonight at 8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, 11 o'clock p.m. Eastern Standard
Time, we're going to do Q&A. That Q&A, you can watch the, you know what I'm saying, the panelists,
which would be Dark Tangent, Hari Hirstie, Sarah Thiel, the producer, and Maggie McAlpine will all
be available to watch on YouTube and Twitch. And you can go in and you can have interactive
questions answered via Discord. So we're very excited to, you know, give you this opportunity
on a Friday night. And we welcome your continued participation tomorrow and appreciate all that
you're doing and such. And, you know, by the way, we, you know, we couldn't do all this without,
you know, the funds and such. And so go out there and visit our swag page, get yourself a
Voting Village t-shirt and other things and such, and continue to help us bring not only
the Voting Village, but other voting and security education forward for the community through our
Election Integrity Foundation. Look forward to seeing you guys all tomorrow. Thanks again.