To improving our elections, and also to offer some kind of personal observations ive had about the need for improving Public Confidence in San Franciscos elections. I have been an author of Free Open Source Software learkz related that was used to help verify the results of San Francisco elections and occasion offer places where votes could be corrected and thats been very helpful for people, not only here in california but in other states as well. San francisco elections and director john aroundst do a commendable job overall how they conduct elections and they continuously work to make improvements and there are areas where they can still make improvements and as i talked to people i found there is a significant amount of the public that has low confidence in the elections in San Francisco and how theyre conducted and i think open Source Software and open vofting systems is certainly one of the steps we can take to improve that. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Is there any
To follow and today we will hear about some of the work that is happening in california and from the California Association of voting officials and a Nonprofit Agency that advocates for open source Voting System and Good Government and also as cost saving measure. We will also hear about what paths San Francisco could potentially follow to inc. Plement its own Voting System and studying the process currently ongoing in Los Angeles County. Today before the Committee Colleagues is a resolution that expresses San Franciscos commitment to implementing and working with other jurisdictions and organizations to implement an open source Voting System. The resolution requests that lafco studied how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and we spoke with their staff and they are willing and able to do this if requested by the lafco board and supervisor mar has informed us he is interested adding his name as a cosponsor and carrying that request at lafco which hes a member. These ar
Costs go down capital is freed up to allocate to other areas of elect administration. In addition open Source Systems will increase the transparency another key recommendation of the task force and numerous independent investigation have discovered serious security weaknesses and design errors in widely used equipment. By designing software in an open environment there is increased chance that defects will be identified and addressed. On december, 2013 the California Association of voting officials was launched for the purpose of providing a mechanism for counties to pull resources to invest in the development and use of open Voting Systems per public elections as well as to provide training, education and Management Practices to Election Officials for the effective use of open source technologies. Cabo is a california nonprofit non stock Mutual Benefit corporation and owned by the public for the Mutual Benefit of its members when include individuals, voting jurisdictions, academic and
Nonprofit agency that advocates for open source Voting System and Good Government and also as cost saving measure. We will also hear about what paths San Francisco could potentially follow to inc. Plement its own Voting System and studying the process currently ongoing in Los Angeles County. Today before the Committee Colleagues is a resolution that expresses San Franciscos commitment to implementing and working with other jurisdictions and organizations to implement an open source Voting System. The resolution requests that lafco studied how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and we spoke with their staff and they are willing and able to do this if requested by the lafco board and supervisor mar has informed us he is interested adding his name as a cosponsor and carrying that request at lafco which hes a member. These are steps to have a more free and accurate Voting System to strengthen the public trust and colleagues if there are no comments we have a few presenters
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