Company
Date Published
March 7, 2020
Author
Jocelyn Woolbright
Word count
970
Language
English
Hacker News points
3

Summary

On International Women's Day and the Centennial Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote in the United States, Jocelyn Woolbright from Cloudflare shares five reflections. She highlights the long battle for women's suffrage, the delay in voting rights for women of color, the increase in women in political power globally, the evolution of sharing election information, and the importance of access to election information for voter turnout and democracy. Woolbright emphasizes Cloudflare's commitment to election security through projects like Athenian Project and Cloudflare for Campaigns, protecting state and local government election websites and providing services to U.S. Presidential campaigns.