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1/5/2023 – Alameda County Ranked Choice Voting – Board of Supervisors Special Meeting
This is my public comment regarding the use of ranked choice voting in Alameda County during the November election. I mention how if the County were using open-source software, members of the public could have spotted the County’s misconfiguration of the RCV tabulator sooner.
The original video can be found here (scroll down to the “Special Meetings” box): https://ift.tt/PikSyR1
Agenda: https://ift.tt/EoHtR7W
Video: https://ift.tt/naSMh1J
Here is a written version of my suggestions:
1) In the future, the County could use an open-source ranked-choice tabulator to check the results of the proprietary tabulator as part of its process. For example, it could use the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center’s tabulator:
https://ift.tt/YsnWo8z
The County could also provide the public with instructions on its website on how to check the results using the cast vote record data and the open source tabulator.
2) The County could do a small pilot of an open-source voting system in a future election, like San Francisco was hoping to do during last November’s election, to help demonstrate the viability of open source. This is an option the State Legislature gave counties when it passed SB-360 (2013-2014):
https://ift.tt/PJITWfo
Secretary of State Shirley Weber is in the process of completing the regulations for those, and Bay-area based nonprofit VotingWorks has an open source voting system and is willing to conduct such pilots:
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