Re: Legislative Agenda - CFVI in Denver 6/12/07

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Harvie!

I'm headed out of town in hours, so I can't make it.

But anyone talking about the SOS web site should point out that the
way they are publishing things like audit data, audit selections, etc,
and probably election returns as well, is very inconvenient and
incomplete.  PDF is a horrid format for sharing this sort of
information.  They should provide CSV files, or XML, or spreadsheets,
or something that is machine-readable, with easy places to record
comments during the audit process, etc.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:51:10PM -0600, Harvie Branscomb wrote:
> Ben Marter who does legislative work for Ken Gordon reminded me today about a
> meeting tomorrow at the SOS office at 1700 broadway 2nd floor Spruce conference
> room (as I recall) at 5PM (thursday july 12 2007).
> 
> This is a meeting of the Secretary of State advisory group on the SOS web
> site.  The topic will be the entry of campaign finance data by county
> treasurers.  A number of treasurers are expected to testify.  This is not the
> time for major public input,  but we are being advised specifically about the
> meeting by Ken Gordon, who is on the committee.
> 
> I asked Ben if he had any info about recertification, and discussed with him
> the apparent inappropriateness of hiring an ex Sequoia product manager and
> certification manager for the role of test board for certification of the
> remaining manufacturers systems.  He agreed that questions should be asked
> about such topics.
> 
> I am planning to be there.
> 
> Harvie Branscomb