Transparency, expanding citizen access to government information. For example, San Francisco uses granicus to streamline government meetings. I worked there for 61 2 years until last november to start working on my own software idea. I have also been active in the open Source Software community throughout that time. In addition to my software work, i have been active in election and voting integrity issues for over 10 years. While living in davis, i advised the city appointed body called the davis Governance Task force and was recommended by them for my valuable contributions. ~ on election issues. In San Francisco i have been appointed [speaker not understood] inspector two times starting in the june 2006 election. I have attended many Election Commission meeting over the years here. Iest mate over a dozen. I have provided advice to the commission on things how we can improve manual audits and how we can improve the [speaker not understood] results. [speaker not understood] procedures
So, the threat to our elections is real. San francisco and california are pretty clean, but we do need to maintain our vigilance to make sure there are no threats to our city and county. Any questions . ~ paves supervisor tang. Sure,ly ask this of all candidates. But if you can speak to some of the goals that you have if you were to serve on this commission ~. Yes, thank you. Integrity is a very general goal, but it is the number one priority. If any outside influences do try to threaten the electoral integrity, i do think that is our duty or my personal goal to fight it and the oppressive voter id law is a perfect example. More specifically, continuing with the Election Commission, i really want to work on poll worker training. We already do have a good program, but they are our front line defense and are essentially judge, jury and executioner on election day. There are thousands of them and yet only a few dozen fulltime electoral staff. They need better training. Theyre doing a good
Dominic ryan paris, would you good afternoon. Do you have any starting questions or shall i just go into my spiel . Would you still have faith in our american democracy if your vote didnt count . This is actually the question that got me interested in elections and voting during 2000. We all know it happened in florida, but what really isnt known is that 4 to 6 million votes were lost during that election, not due to fraud or anything, but just plain old mistakes. This sadly makes the United States rank 25th out of 73 countries as far as electoral integrity. Should you choose to appoint me electoral integrity is my top priority for serving on the Elections Commission. I have a proficient knowledge of voting systems and as well as electoral good processes, best practices. Ive done this through working for the center for election science helping small organizations adopt better voting systems and use better practices. I also have my Second Public policy masters is focused on elections an
So, i do not again, i apologize, i have sinuses and i do not wish to speak that long and hold you guys time and run down the resume. I have always wanted to serve in San Francisco, the most resourceful beautiful city in this world. Thank you guys very much. Thank you. Siam sorry, you guys. Any questions . ~ any questions . I think you came before one other time. Yeah, and i gave a hispanic lady there was not there had never been a hispanic woman on the Mental Health board before and i gave her an opportunity. And this is the she left. Im back again applying for the same [speaker not understood]. Right. Was it your children that went through the system . Excuse me . You mentioned last time Public Education system . No. Special Education System here in San Francisco . Family members that might have gone through the system for Mental Health. Yes, i had a Family Member here in San Francisco now. They may have received Mental Health Mental Health services, yes, in the Mental Health services
Government meetings. I worked there for 61 2 years until last november to start working on my own software idea. I have also been active in the open Source Software community throughout that time. In addition to my software work, i have been active in election and voting integrity issues for over 10 years. While living in davis, i advised the city appointed body called the davis Governance Task force and was recommended by them for my valuable contributions. ~ on election issues. In San Francisco i have been appointed [speaker not understood] inspector two times starting in the june 2006 election. I have attended many Election Commission meeting over the years here. Iest mate over a dozen. I have provided advice to the commission on things how we can improve manual audits and how we can improve the [speaker not understood] results. [speaker not understood] procedures on multiple occasions in San Francisco and i have written software to analyze San Franciscos rank Choice Voting data. Sa