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 were 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 im 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 couldnt 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 im the secretary for the California Association of voting officials. Cabo is dedicated to providing the Election Administration community with election options and advocate transparency via publicly
Oversight and helping prioritize the implementation of transportation and other public improvements and some of the projects include the balboa park station area and plaza improvements, muni forward which is the transit line changes, the ocean avenue corridor design and the i280 off ramp realignment so if you have any further questions i am available. Thank you. Thank you. Did you want to say anything . [inaudible] okay. Any questions . Well thank you for bringing this forward. Even though the balboa station isnt in my district its just close enough to the district where it has a lot of impact and i am certainly supportive of the extension. Any Public Comments on this item . Seeing none public is now closed. [gavel] supervisor campos. Thank you. I would like to move this item forward with a positive recommendation. And by the way what an incredible voice. Thank you for the presentation. Deputy City Attorney john gibner. Just one suggestion to the committee. On page three of the resolut
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
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
Cabo and our efforts to build better systems. Into the next search the advances should provide the opportunity that everyones vote is counted accurately and securely without being tied to a sing vendor or out dated infrastructure. This will provide us the capacity and certainty to administer elections for this century and keep the promise of our democracy, namely that your vote will always if cast count. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely cammy foot president cavo. Thank you very much and i am available for any questions. Thank you. And finally i would like to call up chris who say member of the Elections Commission appoint by the board of supervisors. Good afternoon rules Committee Members. The last time i was here is in april when applying for the board of supervisors seat and again thank you for your support. Im now the Vice President of the Election Commission although i am speaking as a member of the public today and not a representative of the commission. I want