Voting System Task Force
VOTING SYSTEMS TASK FORCE MINUTES Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. City Hall, Room 370 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room San Francisco, California
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL The meeting was called to order by Task Force Chair Jody Sanford at 4:45 p.m.
Present: Roger Donaldson Jody Sanford James Soper Beth Mazur Ka-Ping Yee Absent: Gregory Miller Tim Mayer
2. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES By motion of Mr. Ping, seconded by Ms. Mazur, the minutes of the October 21, 2009 meeting were approved as written.
3. PUBLIC COMMENT Brent Turner submitted a copy of a PowerPoint presentation presented recently to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Mr. Donaldson requested that he submit an electronic copy to Jill Lerner. Mr. Turner expressed a concern regarding VSTF members that have a financial interest in organizations that may sell products to counties, specifically a conflict of interest that he believes may concern the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation.
4. DISCUSSION OF VSTF WORK PLAN VSTF members discussed their preliminary thoughts on the SF Voting Systems Security Plan (Beth), the Secretary of State Directives for Sequoia Systems (Ping), the SF Poll Worker Manual (Jody), the Civil Grand Jury Report (Ping), and the Department of Elections voting systems RFP (Roger). One VSTF member (identified in parenthesis above) will be the principal investigator for each document, and will send final notes to Jody by Monday, November 16. Members will identify the most significant conclusions of their review (how is this document relevant and how does it relate to VSTF scope?) and their recommendations for next steps.
Future documents for review may include: California Elections Code, San Francisco Elections Code, HAVA, the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines, and the Manual Count Procedures document. With regard to VSTF Next Steps, members agreed to come to the November 18 meeting with their recommendations about next steps.
5. ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING AGENDA
a. Continued discussion of VSTF work plan b. Reviewing inventory of documents on the VSTF website
6. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 6:40 p.m.
