from january, 2012. chairperson campos: if there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item 2 below? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: motion to approve. commissioner pimentel: second. chairperson campos: without objection. item 3, community toys aggregation activities report a status update on the clean power program, status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission, and status update on state legislation. chairperson campos: we will now hear from michael campbell of the public utilities commission. i am the director of clean power sf, through sfpuc. a few things to report on. we are, as you all know, waiting for the board of supervisors to hold hearings, and hopefully approve the shell contract that is before the board, continuing to work forward on finalizing the contract with noble america to support the back office services. while we are working on that, we are also working o
reform community, but it has become an issue, because at this point we are still not obtaining better security within the voting systems. that, in our opinion, is the job at hand, to make sure we have better election systems. people like allen becker, royce altman, the fellow that wrote the certification process for the federal government. it is pretty much concluded that the current systems are not appropriate. the question is where we go from here. this conversation seems to have been in the direction of talking about ballot design issues, and whether it is prudent to have an instant runoff rather than a follow-up runoff. i think those are interesting questions, and some of them are philosophical. my point today is to say i think we are good with the current ballot design. what we really need to do is focus on the election systems. it should be stated that the ranked joyce algorithms and software additions they create an extra muddling of the current systems that are alre
from january, 2012. chairperson campos: if there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item 2 below? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: motion to approve. commissioner pimentel: second. chairperson campos: without objection. item 3, community toys aggregation activities report a status update on the clean power program, status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission, and status update on state legislation. chairperson campos: we will now hear from michael campbell of the public utilities commission. i am the director of clean power sf, through sfpuc. a few things to report on. we are, as you all know, waiting for the board of supervisors to hold hearings, and hopefully approve the shell contract that is before the board, continuing to work forward on finalizing the contract with noble america to support the back office services. while we are working on that, we are also working o
publicly owned open-source software system with mandatory printed ballots. the reason this is important is because this gives you the opportunity to have the largest amount of is on the software that calculates the vote, as well as reaching the best possibility of securing a voter intend, because that is important, if a voter is confused by the ballot this side, if a voter is confused by the process. necessarily, the voter s intent can be at risk. we are talking about here is a security issue. two of them. one of them is the security issue associated with no one knowing what the big black box does. the other is understanding of that a broker wants to know that when they voted for one person, that is the vote that is counted them with. thank you for listening. chairperson campos: thank you very much. next speaker, please. hello. my name is brad turner. good to see you. today, i wanted to hand in a statement i typed up, giving some background on how we got here, and the basi
from january, 2012. chairperson campos: if there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item 2 below? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is an action item. supervisor avalos: motion to approve. commissioner pimentel: second. chairperson campos: without objection. item 3, community toys aggregation activities report a status update on the clean power program, status update on proceeding at the california public utilities commission, and status update on state legislation. chairperson campos: we will now hear from michael campbell of the public utilities commission. i am the director of clean power sf, through sfpuc. a few things to report on. we are, as you all know, waiting for the board of supervisors to hold hearings, and hopefully approve the shell contract that is before the board, continuing to work forward on finalizing the contract with noble america to support the back office services. while we are working on that, we are also working o