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Locality: BAY

File Name: Bay Survey 20220616




ObserversMark Anderson
Date of interview06/16/2022
Time and date of initial call and email:06/14/2022
Time and date of response:06/14/2022
Did the registrar refuse to meet you:No
If yes, please provide the reason given for not meeting:
Survey Answers
1. What is your biggest concern about the upcoming election?Redistricting.
2. Any other major concerns?Voters not responding timely.
3. Do you feel like you have the resources, equipment, personnel, and training needed to run an effective election in November?No
3a. Any additional information?
3b. If no, what is missing?No uniform decisions for voter registration. Some policy across the board.
4. When was the last time the voter file in your county was scrubbed or cleaned?No less than once per year.
5. When was the last time you had access to the National Change of Address List or any other change of address list?Regular basis.
5a. Any other information?
6a. Are you confident that the voter file is accurate and up to date?Yes
6b. If no, what is/are your main concern(s) about the list?
7a. Have you had private third-party individuals or groups conducting voter registration qtivities in this county?Yes
7b. If yes, can you tell me which groups conducted these activitiesLeague of Women Voters, Republican party, Democrat party.
7c. If yes, are you confident these registration activities take place without bribery, intimidation or coercion, and that only qualified voters are registered through these third-parties?Yes
7d. Any other information?
8. Can you explain how your office manages voting in nursing homes?Supervised process as a precinct. Ballots are taken to nursing home, SOE supervises the vote and collects the ballots.
9a. How is the voting system used in your county certified?
9b. Who certified it last and when?
10. Who updates and calibrates the voting machines?State of Florida employee.
11. Can you explain how they update and calibrate the voting machines?
12a. Are you present when the machines are updated and calibrated, or is that process supervised by someone else? If some else, what is their position?I am present
12b. Another person supervises this process (insert title and position)
13. Do you invite party representatives to witness the update and calibration?Yes
14a.Are voting machines ever connected to the internet..select..
14b. If yes, when and why are they connected?
14c. If they are not connected to the internet, how, when and by whom are they updated?
15a. Concerns were raised across the country about the accuracy and integrity of voting machines in the 2020 elections, and there are now calls to get rid of the machines, and use a manual process like that used in France. Do you think it is a good idea to go back to a manual voting process?..select..
15b. If no, why?
16. Can you tell us what it costs per voter to implement an election in this country?
17a. How many (%) extra ballots are available in each precinct?0% - Direct print, no extra ballots.
17b. Can you describe the process used to track and account for these excess ballots?
18a. We know that in some areas, machines had difficulty reading many mail-in ballots, and those had to be sent for manual adjudication. Can you describe briefly how ballots are adjudicated here?2 People duplicate the ballot then the canvassing board confirms the duplication.
18b. About what percentage of absentee ballots required adjudication in this county/city during the 2020 election?Less than .5%
19. Have the machines you use for counting ever reported fractional results?..select..
19b. Any additional information?
20a. As an election professional, do you think the changes made in the election process in Florida in response to COVID have weakened election integrity, strengthened election integrity, or made no change in election integrity?No answer / refused
20b. Any additional information?Integrity is the responsibility of the SOE.
21a. Did you receive any funding or in-kind contributions for training, staff, voter education or equipment, or any other purpose from outside the state of Florida?..select..
21b. If yes, what was the funding or contribution used for?
21c. Will not receiving such funding in the future affect your ability to implement a fully free and fair election?..select..
21d. If yes, in what way?
22. Have your local party chairs been notified that they are entitled to send observers to your office each day it is open and receiving in-person absentee ballots?Yes
22a. Any additional information?
23a. Did you have both Republican and Democrat pollwatchers at every polling location in 2020?No
23b. If no, please estimate the perentage of polling locations covered by each party:Democrats 40% / Republicans 30%
24a. Do you have a publication that you provide to your election officials regarding rights and responsibilities of pollwatchers?Yes
Any additional information?
24b. If no, would you be willing to distribute such a publication that we would prepare based on Florida law?..select..
25a. If the Legislature through the Department of State allowed independent non-partisan observers, would you welcome that?Yes
25b. Any additional information?
26. Post survey question � Please characterize your interaction with the Supervisor of Elections asHelpful




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