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
Keeping my privacy, but ive been here for a long time. Did you a member have to be a resident of San Francisco . ~ does deputy City Attorney john give more. Yes, if the applicant lives in San Francisco and is a registered voter, then she does not then she qualifies. Yes, im aes are identified. ~ resident. For me its a matter of making sure somebody knows you are actually a resident. My application lists my resident. I googled it and i can see my application was still present. I did a word search and it says my address. Im not going to give it out now. [speaker not understood]. I appreciate that. I have to do my job also. Thank you very much. Let me see, i think there is one more person. [speaker not understood]. Can i speak about that . Later. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im deborah dacumos and im actually asking for reappointment for my seat. And i was appointed back in 2011. My goal at that time was basically related to [speaker not understood] and still is my focus. I have a ph. D.
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
Understood] jenkins and im here to support the nomination of Angela Jenkins. Shes actually my sister. And the reason shes in San Francisco is when she was serving in the gulf war, what she said, we have a Family History of service, both military and community service. And having a sister in the war was just such a difficult thing. But she actually had to leave to go to war a week after we lost our mother. And my sister taught me something. She said, [speaker not understood] to serve, i have to g. All of us tried to get her not to leave. And she did. So, one of the things i bribed her with when she returned to service was overcoming to San Francisco. Thats right, shes a resident of San Francisco. I watched my sister, my experience and strategy and execution in public policy, again, im speaking from my knowledge of watching my sister as a veteran, her commitment and her passion, her everyday advocacy for the quality of life of veterans that she [speaker not understood] our Family History
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