they said, first of all, the library's databases are unhackable. unhackable. knowing what we know about library databases and other databases, that is a pretty far-fetched claim. in addition, it doesn't take hacking into the database to raise and to make privacy threats. and the other reason was that they said it has only a 30-inch range. well, that may be true for certain commercial applications, but not for all. and even show, there's no need to get that close. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. my name is john fitch. sometimes our eyes are too wide open. if the legal link in the chain had been followed that was already set place by the founding fathers as to how the city would be governed in the event of the sudden death of a mayor, would ms. breed be an active mary, why wasn't she giving a choice in maintaining and being the active mayor or remaining being the board president. you didn't let her decide for herself. she was the only one allowed to make that decision, whether she wanted to do one or t

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boat --ere an unhappy votinge an unhackable system? use paperan be if we ballot systems where the voter marks a paper ballot or directs a machine, even with software, to mark a paper ballot, the voter can affirm these are my choices and he can make confirmed -- and it can be confirmed by a machine and we can check to see if the machine has cheated or it has been hacked. unfortunately, large numbers of voters in this country are using software-based voting systems that have no paper records or no voter-created paper records so the machines can cheat. presumptively, they are cheating because it is easy to cheat and it is almost undetectable in many cases. part of what senator klobuchar was speaking about in the beginning of this conference today was the importance of our recognizing and addressing the proud -- the problems with the election vulnerabilities. funded our election offices at the liberal -- the level that is needed in order to protect them from hacking, whether from cyber criminals or nationstate actors, like russia, or just

. >> host: are voting systems -- there is unhackable voting system. >> guest: very good question. all voting systems we have produced thus far are hackable to some degree if they're based on computers and software. if we use paper ballot systems, where the voter marks a paper ballot or directs a machine, even one with software to mark a paper ballot, the voter can look at the ballot, affirm these are my choices. it can be count by software but then we have that paper record to check to see if the machine has cheated. if it has been hacked. unfortunately, large numbers of voters in this country are using software based voting systems that have no paper records or no voter creatinged paper records and the minnesota can cheat. presumptively, they are cheating, because it's easy to cheat, and it's almost undetectable in many cases. so part of what senator klobuchar was speaking about at the beginning of this conference today, was the importance of our recognizing and redressing the problems with the election vulnerabilities and particularly voting systems, but also the larger election

the meanwhile, bitcoin is running independently, unhackable so far.emy bitcoin is more fiat currencies. you know, it's hard for people to get their hands around think about it. we're actually creating a course draper university from april 9 to 11 so that -- or to 12, so that people can learn how this whole economy is going and how the world will change. kathleen: we'd love to have you back. have breaking news in the japanese economy so we want to thank you. draper fisher founder. amazon! my book on kathleen: tim draper, thanks so much. yvonne: thank you. machine orders coming through japan, big, big 11.9%, thedropping month-on-month jbs. we -- numbers. a draw-down inng contractionary territory. out is coming from a blow quarter in the fourth quarter at 5.7%nd of 2017 with the print. year on-year also dropping 5% ramy, thisr and comes down to the strength of cap on howtting a much these japanese corporates to invest in terms of capital spending and boost wages so certainly a big question for the b.o.j. plenty more to come on "daybreak asia." keep it ri