. >> good morning, my name is greg penington, 42-year resident of san francisco.olunteer for the california clean money campaign. we have 15,000 members in san francisco. i'm an open source paper ballot voting system advocate, very important to get transparency in our elections. i've worked with christopher jerdonek personally for the past two years on this issue and his expertise is absolutely incredible. i want to thank you, supervisor ronen, for the $1.55 million budget support you gave last year for open source paper ballot voting in san francisco. i ask all of you to pass the additional 3 million request for the coit budget for this project. chris has 15 years experience on election and voting issues. san francisco voting system specific knowledge which is important. he's a software developer and he has excellent expertise on open source software, and it is critical that we don't change horses in the middle of the race. this project is critical, not only for san francisco but the nation. san francisco is the only place working on open source paper ballot voti