| Observers | Michael Thompson, Meredith Morrow, Janas Seda |
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| Date of interview | 06/30/2022 |
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| Time and date of initial call and email: | 06/14/2022 |
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| Time and date of response: | 06/21/2022 |
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| Did the registrar refuse to meet you: | No |
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| If yes, please provide the reason given for not meeting: | |
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| Survey Answers |
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| 1. What is your biggest concern about the upcoming election? | Still need poll workers - need more. People have questions about the elections - opportunity to engage w/people. Fields inquiries. Reminding people that he took oath to uphold law. |
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| 2. Any other major concerns? | |
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| 3. Do you feel like you have the resources, equipment, personnel, and training needed to run an effective election in November? | No |
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| 3a. Any additional information? | Need part time workers $7.5 mil 350K reg. voters |
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| 3b. If no, what is missing? | |
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| 4. When was the last time the voter file in your county was scrubbed or cleaned? | May 25th Eligibility maintenance ongoing. First May 23rd. |
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| 5. When was the last time you had access to the National Change of Address List or any other change of address list? | |
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| 5a. Any other information? | |
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| 6a. Are you confident that the voter file is accurate and up to date? | Yes |
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| 6b. If no, what is/are your main concern(s) about the list? | 1,000s are removed yearly. The voter dept are constantly cjecking DMV, ERIC. Data in - data out |
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| 7a. Have you had private third-party individuals or groups conducting voter registration qtivities in this county? | Yes |
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| 7b. If yes, can you tell me which groups conducted these activities | No |
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| 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? | Do not know |
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| 7d. Any other information? | |
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| 8. Can you explain how your office manages voting in nursing homes? | No to jails. SOE reaches out to each facility. Pre-COVID 50 places 1 Dem. 1 Rep. go to each location BiPart. team watches to processes + bring ballots back that day, if they see there is an issue they can go into a facility to handle ballots if they have any concerns F.S 101.265 |
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| 9a. How is the voting system used in your county certified? | |
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| 9b. Who certified it last and when? | |
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| 10. Who updates and calibrates the voting machines? | State employee |
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| 11. Can you explain how they update and calibrate the voting machines? | |
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| 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 |
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| 12b. Another person supervises this process (insert title and position) | Software updates come direct for state. The vendor never is alone |
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| 13. Do you invite party representatives to witness the update and calibration? | No |
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| 14a.Are voting machines ever connected to the internet | No |
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| 14b. If yes, when and why are they connected? | There is a transmission between a virtual server. Server receives data + upload results. We reconcile everything after 7pm tally prints, posts on door |
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| 14c. If they are not connected to the internet, how, when and by whom are they updated? | |
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| 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.. |
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| 15b. If no, why? | You'd have to change the law. State of Florida created standard + Secretary of State gives the |
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| 16. Can you tell us what it costs per voter to implement an election in this country? | $600K to do that 2020 $1.8 -2o million. No private funding used or taken Sarasota City would take $ - like that |
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| 17a. How many (%) extra ballots are available in each precinct? | Pad a little to make sure there are enough. Staff is constantly watching # |
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| 17b. Can you describe the process used to track and account for these excess ballots? | |
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| 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? | VBMail. |
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| 18b. About what percentage of absentee ballots required adjudication in this county/city during the 2020 election? | A few thousand ballots each. Pollwatchers were present during copying. SOE contacted each one to let them know dates, deadlines _ all communications are c.c. to Party heads |
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| 19. Have the machines you use for counting ever reported fractional results? | ..select.. |
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| 19b. Any additional information? | |
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| 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? | Strengthened integrity |
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| 20b. Any additional information? | |
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| 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.. |
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| 21b. If yes, what was the funding or contribution used for? | |
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| 21c. Will not receiving such funding in the future affect your ability to implement a fully free and fair election? | ..select.. |
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| 21d. If yes, in what way? | |
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| 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 |
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| 22a. Any additional information? | |
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| 23a. Did you have both Republican and Democrat pollwatchers at every polling location in 2020? | Yes |
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| 23b. If no, please estimate the perentage of polling locations covered by each party: | |
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| 24a. Do you have a publication that you provide to your election officials regarding rights and responsibilities of pollwatchers? | Yes |
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| Any additional information? | |
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| 24b. If no, would you be willing to distribute such a publication that we would prepare based on Florida law? | ..select.. |
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| 25a. If the Legislature through the Department of State allowed independent non-partisan observers, would you welcome that? | Yes |
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| 25b. Any additional information? | Helpful Polite |
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| 26. Post survey question � Please characterize your interaction with the Supervisor of Elections as | |
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