The right to vote allowss to vote for candidates or party and it is a significant way to have our voice heard. Exactly 100 years ago, women were given the vote in california. The battle for womens suffrage was not an easy one. It took more than 70 years. A woman could run for president in new york. Organizing this conference, basically it modeled itself on a declaration of independence for women. It marked the beginning of the womens Equality Movement in the united states. At that time, women were banned from Holding Property and voting in elections. Susan b. Anthony dedicated her life to reform. Suffrage in the middle of the 19th century accomplished one goal, it was diametrically opposed to this idea. Many feared it would be corrupted by politics. Women in the 19th century had to convince male voters that having the vote would not change anything. That woman would still be devoted to the home, the family, that they would remain pure and innocent, that having the vote would not corrupt them. Support gradually grew in state and local campaigns. Leaders like ellen clark sgt come repeatedly stopping these meetings , repeatedly stopping these meetings as a politically active figure. Doing everything they could to ground the campaign in domesticity. Despite their efforts, the link made it tough whenever voters were in the big city. A specialist in francisco. The problem with San Francisco is that womens suffrage as an idea was associated. Susan b. Anthony joined the provision party. A deadly idea in San Francisco. Liquor was the foundation of the economy. And anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular. The First Campaign was a great effort, but not a success. The war was not over. Less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. Womens suffrage, the Republican Convention in oakland, this time it was the private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center. Women were entitled to be here. Joining together for another campaign. Women opened a club in San Francisco. It was called the votes for women club. If she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. The lunch room was a tremendous success. It was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. What happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. There were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. The eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we all voted. It was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. One decade later, we have full Voting Rights in the united states. Helping newly enfranchised women, a new Political Movement was founded. Starting in the 1920s, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. All of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. Nonpartisan, not endorsing candidates endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have their voice heard. The 100th anniversary of womens suffrage is taking place throughout the state. Bancroft library is having an exhibit that highlights the womens suffrage movement, chronicling what happened in california, bringing women the right to vote. How long does this mean going on . The week of the 20th. People do not realize that women were allowed to vote as early as the 1920s. In the Library Collection we have a manuscript from the end of december, possibly longer. In commemoration of 100 years of voting in california. 100 years ago this year, we won the right to vote. Around 1911, this is how it would have addressed. And here we are, dressed the same. [chanting] we have the right to vote. Whether you are marching for a cause or voting in the next election, make your voice heard. Thank you for watching. Hi today we have a special edition of building San Francisco, stay safe, what we are going to be talking about San Franciscos earth quakes, what you can do before an earthquake in your home, to be ready and after an earthquake to make sure that you are comfortable staying at home, while the city recovers. The next episode of stay safe, we have Alicia Johnson from San Franciscos department of emergency management. Hi, alicia thanks to coming it is a pleasure to be here with you. I wonder if you could tell us what you think people can do to get ready for what we know is a coming earthquake in San Francisco. Well, one of the most things that people can do is to make sure that you have a plan to communicate with people who live both in and out of state. Having an out of state contact, to call, text or post on your social network is really important and being able to know how you are going to communicate with your friends, and family who live near you, where you might meet them if your home is uninhab hitable. How long do you think that it will be before things are restored to normal in San Francisco. It depends on the severity of the earthquake, we say to provide for 72 hours tha, is three days, and it helps to know that you might be without services for up to a week or more, depending on how heavy the shaking is and how many after shocks we have. What kind of neighborhood and Community Involvement might you want to have before an earthquake to make sure that you are going to able to have the support that you need. It is important to have a Good Relationship with your neighbors and your community. Go to those community events, shop at local businesses, have a reciprocal relationship with them so that you know how to take care of yourself and who you can rely on and who can take care of you. It is important to have a batteryoperated radio in your home so that you can keep track of what is happening in the Community Around and how you can communicate with other people. One of the things that seems important is to have access to your important documents. Yes, it is important to have copies of those and also stored them remotely. So a title to a home, a passport, a drivers license, any type of medical records that you need need, back those up or put them on a remote drive or store them on the cloud, the same is true with any Vital Information on your computer. Back that up and have that on a cloud in case your hard drive does not work any more. In your home you should be prepared as well. Absolutely. Lets take a look at the kinds of things that you might want to have in your home. We have no water, what are we going to do about water . It is important for have extra water in your house, you want to have bottled water or a five gallon container of water able to use on a regular basis, both for bathing and cooking as well as for drinking. We have this big container and also in peoples homes they have a hot water heater. Absolutely, if you clean your hot water heater out regularly you can use that for showering, drinking and bathing as well what other things do people need to have arent their home. It is important to have extra every day items buy a couple extra cans of can food that you can eat without any preparation. Here is a giant can of green giant canned corn. And this, a manual can opener, your electric can opener will not be working not only to have one but to know where to find it in your kitchen. Yes. So in addition to canned goods, we are going to have fresh food and you have to preserve that and i know that we have an ice chest. Having an ice chest on hand is really important because your refrigerator will not be working right away. It is important to have somebody else that can store cold foods so something that you might be able to take with you if you have to leave your home. And here, this is my very own personal emergency supply box for my house. I hope that you have an alternative one at home. Oh, i forgot. And in this is really important, you should have flashlights that have batteries, fresh batteries or hand crank flashlight. I have them right here. Good. Excellent. That is great. Additionally, you are going to want to have candles a whistle, possibly a compass as well. Markers if you want to label things if you need to, to people that you are safe in your home or that you have left your home. I am okay and i will meet you at. Exactly. Exactly. Water proof matches are a great thing to have as well. We have matches here. And my spare glasses. And your spare glasses. If you have medication, you should keep it with you or have access to it. If it needs to be refrigerated make sure that it is in your ice box. Inside, just to point out for you, we have spare batteries. Very important. We have a little first aid kit. And lots of different kinds of batteries. And another spare flashlight. So, alicia what else can we do to prepare our homes for an earthquake so we dont have damage . One of the most important things that you can do is to secure your valuable and breakable items. Make sure that your tv is strapped down to your entertainment cabinet or wall so it does not move. Also important is to make sure that your book case is secure to the wall so that it does not fall over and your valuable and breakables do not break on the ground. Becoming prepared is not that difficult. Taking care of your home, making sure that you have a few extra everyday items on hand helps to make the difference. That contributes dramatically to the way that the city as a whole can recover. Absolutely. If you are able to control your own environment and house and recovery and your neighbors are doing the same the city as a whole will be a more resilient city. We are all proud of living in San Francisco and being prepared helps us stay here. So, thank you so much for joining us today, alicia, i appreciate it. Absolutely, it is my pleasure. And thank you for joining us and thank you for joining us on another edition of building every day i seek a positive direction for my life through my accomplishments and, now, with help and support for my family and others, i own i own i own my recovery from addition and depression. Join the voices for recovery. Its worth it. For information on mental and Substance Use disorders, including prevention and treatment referral, call 1800662help. Brought to you by the u. S. Department of health and human services. clapping . When you cast our vote in an election in San Francisco you might kaflt your vote at city hall or choose to vote by mail ever wonder what happens after you cast our vote whats the process for tal vote in San Francisco and how is your vote counted lets follow our ballot when you tall a certified by the department of elections first, well look at what happens to our vote another a polling place when you cast your vote it is set into a system called on in sight it read our ballot and the data is soared on a memory cartridge it is based in denver, colorado provides San Francisco with high sail balance scared and software to count the votes when the poll is closed the memory card is removed by the inspector cartridge is sponsored are stored in a anti static bag and a San Francisco parking control officer takes official custody to deliver to city hall the custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to Deputy Sheriff it verifies delivers them to pier 48 managed i the election on Election Night pier 48 is a hub of activity bringing the ballots to poll line up audits to delivery to the team its a long night for those election employees staffer unpack and sort of all the ballot bags and i account for the ballots and dropped off at polling places and from the machines the inside ballots a counted to verify the total ballet for the polling places more to do with the ballots and well get back to them a little bit later meanwhile at systematically city hall the department of elections sets up a gone night only uploading center staffed by the employees and to transfer the memory cards by the parking 0 offices. On Election Night that he set up austin at city hall to process the votes and completely and accurately as possible in the bag it was placed on a reader that records the summary next the carriages are unpacked and checked in by our staff then the carriages with a vote so for etch print are fed to into the right sideers by the Memory Software is he see the vote by a line that is in the department rooms tabulations back at the polling place on election day you might cast our veto using the edge voting machine a bilingual that allows the voters with limited vision or other disabilities to have access to the ballot their recorded on a paper printout and stored in the edge machine. I also need the edge printer. At the end of the election day a Deputy Sheriff take custody of the field container from each edge machine. You on have one edge printer; right . Those deputies transfer the container with the plastic bottles and the departments warehouse on pier 48. The department of election staff opens the sealed container into every edge machine and reviews the printed record. Here at the Department Warehouse teams of two people roach the edge printer material and check and recheck if the votes are recorded a team have to people puts it onto a blank perspective and two different people confirm the votes and correct any errors all the edge printer are hyphenated their transferred to the Deputy Sheriff and the Department Employees transfer those ballots to city hall and feed into the machine for counting that way all the votes cast on the edge machine are included in the election tally. Voters are encouraged to vote at theyre assigned voting place people that cast in other marathon their ballet place their plaid in a special envelope to be verified verification is checking to see if the voter is registered in San Francisco if they are their votes are count for where their registered more than 60 percent of san franciscans cast their vote by mail ballets cast at city hall have also process as vote by mail process brother you receive our ballot in the mail it has to be received and sort of by the u. S. Post office the largest may progressing facility in San Francisco though it is get i quite a large operation about 5 hundred employees throughout 3 shifts that runs 24 7365 today what we have all the day when the city of chicago have arrived and theyll be processed for delivery so over here a truck that has come in were expecting about 2 hundred and 48 thousand ballots to come into the plant on 6 different trucks so for weve received 3 of the trucks as you can see theres a lot of mail here right now, were getting ready to run the mail on a bar code softer and we but u put it into a sequence it is good for the ballot constituents. Voters drop off 25 percent of the ballets at poll places at the end of the day custody is transferred to 0 Deputy Sheriff that transfers them to pier 48 at the pier battles are a collected the number of rushes is needed and quickly transported by two Deputy Sheriffs to city hall for process before any counting of any vote by mail can happen the voters signatures must be verified so first, the unopened vote by mail is run through scanner that takes a picture of the bar code and signatures the bar code identifies the voter and this information along with the voters signature is sent electronically to the voters place for verification while here in Voter Services we check the signature on the ballet envelope with the signature on the voters fill the name predict and name is entered into 9 election system the staff reviews the information on file and visually compares the signature and we challenge the valid of the ballot if it is severed theyve voted in this election and the official stamping of the ballots sent electronically back through the scanner envelopes radio run introduce the scanner again to sort of out any unverified ballets on the second scanner their sort of by predict Voter Services staff we proclaims every ballot to make sure that the voters are contract and their vote is counted. Though accepted vote by mail used to be opened by hand now opened by a rapid extract machine it helped on the envelope on two sides and the machine that opens the flaps are recorded you can reach in and pick up the ballot it is probably twice as fast as a manual process and the wlalts is then scanned by a 4 hundred highspeed scanner that counts the votes on each ballot sadder at the same time employees schek the dominion sheet and compare it the scanner sometimes cannot read a ballot due to damage or light parking garages by vote their transferred by hand by a go person team those new ballets is run through the ascertain sea the votes are add to the final tabulation wonders where your ballet is you can consortium our battle ballot was received and check the constitutes and conform our vote better to be safe than sorry was ultimate counted using the tool at sfgov ballot. Org. Then we transfer the data from the skarnlz into this laptop and tabulate using the do night time software. On the severe those are transferred into the memory cartridges once the data is loaded on the laptop the service tabulates the vote we generate the veto and put 12 on the website and the report also includes a predict by predict breakdown of the polling places and by mail a one neighborhood district of votes and the neighborhood turn out report. We can take a lot of information about the election including one of the most popular broke down by party and continue to look forward to improvements. Youd think that is the ends of the story but still more