Travis County Commissioners Court
October 19, 2004
Item 26
26. Consider and take appropriate action on issues related to the conduct
of the November 2004 joint general and special election, including the designation
of election day polling places.
>> thank you, judge, I appreciate that. The only thing that
we have today, I need to advise the court that we got [indiscernible] testing.
I think it's going to be tomorrow we are going to do it. This is an incredibly
important test that removes a lot of the lingering doubts that people have
about the software that tell lees our ballots, tallies our ballots. It proves
that we have the correct version, there's nothing added to or omitted from
that version. I've been working with the national institute of science and
technology, they are the one who's have written the protocol for how to do
that. The test works, they -- at the federal level they compare the software
that's in their bank in escrow and then they compare it with the state level,
compare it with the county level down to precinct level. So it -- it's a --
the engineers out there will be thrilled to hear that Travis County is going
to be doing hash code testing. We may be the only county that's doing it.
It's a very new tech. I think that it will be a standard for the future for
other counties. We are trying our best to get that done. I’m really tickled
to say that. The other thing that I would let you know is that yesterday's
turnout turned out to be, my staff and I ended up working a 20 hour day. More
like election day. We got hit with a tidal wave, a wonderful tidal wave of
voters. Triple the number of people we had on the previous first day of the
presidential election turnout. And quadruple the number of people on the first
day for gubernatorial. And it shows only signs of letting up just a little
bit today. So we think this is going to be absolutely a huge turnout. Thank
you for your time.
>> did you not have a thing related to the parking over at
u.t.?
>> well, I don't think that the auditor and the county attorney
-- I’m ready for that, but I think they were taking more time to do that.
If it's all right with the court, we will roll that to next week. I believe
-- I’m waiting on them for that. Let me also give the judge an update on hava.
We are ready to go. P.b.o. Is ready to go. You are ready to go. We are waiting
on the secretary of state's office to correct a problem with one of their
field that has too few characters in it before we can hit the button and do
the final submission. I hope to hear from them this week that they have corrected
that problem, then we are ready to go on hava funds.
>> good news.
>> do you have in your packet the resolution? We could go
ahead and do that today? You don't have it?
>> this is the only thing parking thing.
>> then if you would, we will plan to do the resolution that
goes with the grant submission next Tuesday.
>> we have already done the grant submission things was on
today's under grants and contracts.
>> with the resolution?
>> we did it on consent.
>> sorry, i've been swamped.
>> > yes, we did it and resolution.
>> perfect. Then what that means for the court just to let
you know, what that means for the court is that at this point then I’m freed
up to go ahead and submit at the moment the secretary of state's office is
ready to accept. You have no further action that you need to take. We will
take care of it from there on.
>> check with allen miller.
>> thank you very much, I appreciate that. All right. Y'all
have a good day.
>> thank you.
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