foreign adversaries are in fact attempting to influence the election you’ve seen this in terms of the indictments against Russia you’ve seen it in the recent indictments against Iran China is also very interested in influencing the election our foreign adversaries have two main goals to undermine American confidence in the security of our elections and in our Democratic Institutions and two to stoke partisan Discord over 97% of registered voters Will C their ballots and jurisdictions where there is a paper record that they can verify also very important to understand that the machines that Americans will use to cast their ballots are not connected to the internet which makes it extraordinarily difficult for malicious foreign actors to actually impact how votes are cast or how those votes that are cast are counted