{"id":9001,"date":"2018-06-30T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=9001"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:20:37","slug":"publicly-owned-open-source-paper-ballot-voting-system-funding-passes-san-francisco-budget-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/06\/30\/publicly-owned-open-source-paper-ballot-voting-system-funding-passes-san-francisco-budget-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicly Owned Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting System\u00a0funding passes San Francisco Budget Committee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Publicly Owned Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting System<\/i>\u00a0funding passes San Francisco Budget Committee!<\/p>\n

In the past few months we’ve been telling you about our effort with our coalition partners to get San Francisco to fund publicly owned\u00a0Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting Systems\u00a0that will be more secure and transparent than proprietary voting systems from corporate vendors.\u00a0 Thousands of you across the state responded by signing, calling, volunteering, and attending hearings and rallies \u2014 thank you!<\/p>\n

Great news!\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Under the leadership of San Francisco Board of Supervisors President and Budget Chair Malia Cohen<\/b>, San Francisco’s Budget Committee approved nearly $1.3 million in funding for an\u00a0Open Source Paper Ballot Voting System<\/i>\u00a0over the next two years \u2014 enough so that development can begin without delay!<\/p>\n

This is a huge step towards replacing the insecure and secret software that now counts votes, and it’s thanks\u00a0 to the leadership of Supervisor Cohen.<\/b>\u00a0 Supervisor Cohen was the first San Francisco city official to support the San Francisco Elections Commission request for funding to start developing an open-source voting system, and as Chair of the Supervisors Budget Committee has come through to secure funding!<\/p>\n

Supervisors Jeff Sheehy<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Catherine Stefani<\/b>\u00a0also spoke in support of funding for the open-source voting project in the Budget Committee, with Supervisors\u00a0Sandra Lee Fewer<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Norman Yee<\/b>\u00a0also voting Yes!<\/p>\n

Thanks also go to Mayor-elect London Breed<\/b>, who worked with Budget Chair Cohen to secure the funding.\u00a0 As she said,\u00a0“For elections to be fair, they must be secure and transparent”<\/i>\u00a0, and she’ll“continue to work to get funds to fully develop the system \u2014 an investment that will dramatically reduce our costs in future elections.<\/i><\/p>\n

“<\/i>The next step will be that for the Board of Supervisors to vote on the full budget plan and then send it to Mayor-elect London Breed.<\/b>After any county develops and certifies an Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting System, every county in California can use and extend it for free<\/b>.\u00a0 So it will not only protect voting integrity by\u00a0replacing secret and inherently insecure proprietary software from corporate vendors<\/b>, it will also save counties and the state hundreds of millions in licensing fees.<\/p>\n

In fact, the whole nation will be able to use and build on it.\u00a0 Once again, California can lead the way!<\/u>This is why our campaign to get San Francisco to fund Open Source was supported by 29 local, state, and national groups whose cosponsorship of our Clean Money Open-Source Voting campaign kickoff in May and other actions made a big difference.\u00a0 Thanks to them all, including:<\/p>\n

Californians for Disability Rights \u2022 California Association of Voting Officials \u2022 California Common Cause \u2022 Dean Democratic Club of Silicon Valley \u2022 District 6 South Beach Democratic Club \u2022 Endangered Habitats League \u2022 FairVote California \u2022 Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club \u2022 Indivisible SF \u2022 MOVI, Money Out Voters In \u2022 Older Women\u2019s League \u2022 Open Source Election Technology Foundation (OSET) \u2022 Open Source Initiative (OSI) \u2022 People Demanding Action \u2022 Potrero Hill Democratic Club \u2022 Progressive Democrats of America \u2022 Richmond District Democratic Club \u2022 San Francisco Berniecrats \u2022 San Francisco for Democracy \u2022 San Francisco Latino Democratic Club \u2022 San Francisco Green Party \u2022 SF Tech Dems \u2022 San Mateo County Democracy for America \u2022 United America \u2022 United Democratic Club \u2022 Verified Voting \u2022 Voting Rights Task Force \u2022 Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club.<\/p>\n

Now we must make sure that the full Board of Supervisors votes to keep the Open-Source Voting funding in the budget so that San Francisco can start building the system right away.\u00a0 Nothing is more important to our democracy than the security and transparency of our elections.<\/b><\/p>\n

(Submitted by John Fraser.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Publicly Owned Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting System\u00a0funding passes San Francisco Budget Committee! In the past few months we’ve been telling you about our effort with our coalition partners to get San Francisco to fund publicly owned\u00a0Open-Source Paper Ballot Voting Systems\u00a0that will be more secure and transparent than proprietary voting systems… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9007,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9001\/revisions\/9007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}