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to better help overhaul the federal acquisition process and recognizing that this might take more than a year or two, would you submit to remaining on the those committees long enough to see the job through to completion? i ve served, acquisition reform is largely in the government reform committee. i served as chief counsel in the 90s after i work for congresswoman wilkes even though i m not on that committee, we have on all these issues, you do not need to be on a particular committee to work for your constituents so i ve had roundtables where i ve brought leadership to various committees to talk about acquisition reform and we need working, not at the seat of government but the seed of technology and we have the experts here in our region to help us do that . we are sitting down with john woods several years ago and going through on insider, how we need to work through this more quickly. we also need to create that ecosystem where we have a big company and we need ....
garnered national attention, he was shot and killed early on sunday morning in raleigh. it happened at the hands of a 39-year-old man. he was trying to protect the neighborhood from hoodlums. there s a lot of murdering and killing and a lot of guns in america and for a young man s life to be taken and especially in raleigh we hear things about the cities in chicago and new york and other citi b thomas but felt it was important to show his support to come here. no matter what is going on, the best way to get through this is to have understanding compassion and love and that s the best way for us to heal. i love you cory. reporter: friendses are looking to get the word out at holding a fundraiser on august 18th for the family. new tonight, fire crews trying to figure out what sparked a fire in clayton. they responded to a home and the family of five and the dogs are all safe. the home is expected to be a total loss, the red cross is assisting the family. no wo ....
to improving our elections, and also to offer some kind of personal observations i ve had about the need for improving public confidence in san francisco s 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 that s 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 they re 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 ve ....
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 jurisdictio ....
good afternoon. i sat on the task force and thank you supervisor campos for that appointment so this is a simple message that the san francisco voting task force its recommendation is for an open source gpl voting system so the resolution that we re asking to pass is the next logical step and hoping that you support it and thank you as well supervisor wiener and i want to say i m a resident in your district. thank you. thank you very much. next is brent turner. hello supervisors. my name is brent turner. kim unfortunately because of the weather couldn t make it today so i have a statement after my statement. again i will brent turner and chair the election committee for the san mateo democratic party and chair the state of california democratic party disabilities committee on elections, and i i m the secretary for the california association of voting officials. cabo is dedicated to providing the election administration community with election options and advocate ....