next is brent turner. >> hello supervisors. my name is brent turner. kim unfortunately because of the weather couldn't 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 i'm 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 owned software and reduction of costs with the hardware. today is a special day not only in san francisco because of this proceeding but globally as well. the annual observation of the day of disabled persons was proclaimed in 1982 by the united nations generallabley and aims to promote disability issues and increase awareness of gains derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, cultural and social life. we are supported by several different groups, the nat

first i want to invite up alex bash, one of my constituents and followed by tim mayor and brent turner. >> supervisors i am alec bash and appreciate the opportunity to be before you this afternoon. from hanging chads and the year 2000 election to the shift over to electronic voting machines in 2004 which introduced their own set of issues with the secret source code, with the proprietary software systems that they all had, and that lead to a number of issues where when people use the touch screen and pressed the button for car can. erry and it registered bush and there is a case in 2006 they will go into detail in a moment but after that there was a hackers group called anonymous believed they intercepted an effort to flip the vote in ohio in the last presidential election and taken care of it because they had their own ways to follow secret source code. most people do not know how to follow secret source code and courts don't know how and the problem we have now after 2004 we have essentially the same systems we have now for electronic voting systems here. there have been a few patche