Yu Lieutenant Governor stanford. It is a pleasure serving with you, appreciate all that you are doing, and appreciate the fact you are staying so close to your kids. I cant even get through the first line. This guy is amazing as a dad, a partner, former cfo, he is exactly what the state needs it is a key part of what we have gotten done as well. [applause] governing is a team effort and there are three branches of government and we are well represented here today. We have four of the five Supreme Court justices that serve our state here today including the chief justice, longestserving justice in the history of north dakota but lets honor our judicial court, if you guys could stand to be recognized. [applause] and we have a fabulous turn out of state legislators hear from across the state, they have different from all over, these people serve all of you, not just when they are in session but all year round so if we could have all our state senators and representatives today please stan
Thank you, lieutenant sanford. It is a pleasure serving with you. We appreciate everything you are doing and you and sandy and the sacrifices youre making. I pressure staying close to watford, your kids. I cant even get through the first line. This guy is amazing. As a dad, partner, cfo, exactly what state needs right now and is a key part to what we got done this last year. [ applause ] governing is team effort and there are three branches of government and we are well represented here today. We have 4 of the 5 Supreme Court justices that serve our state here today. Including the chief justice, longest serving justice in history of north dakota. But lets honor our judicial court, if you guys could stand. And be recognized. [ applause ] we have a fabulous turnout of state legislator from across the state. They have driven from all over. They serve all of you, not just when they are in session, but all yearround. If we could have our state senators and representatives here today please
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