Gabriele Sterling in charge of voting in Georgia
IN his own words
00.47.10 SCANNERS " Better than guidance, we have a rule that we just passed…we moved the, and part of this gets into the deep understanding of how scanners interpret information, what we did, and don’t quote me in a court of law on this, I’m giving you a general amount, I always get it off by 1% and people yell at me on twitter, so if you were, the old one was 0 to 14% is not a mark, so from 0 to 13% it’s not a mark, 14 to 35 is ambiguous and anything above 35 is a mark it’s an intended human…they did that."
00.47.30 SCANNERS "So what we did is, we now lowered it to where 10%, 0 to 10% is going to be not a mark, 10% to 20% is the ambiguous zone and 20% and up is an obvious mark, because we looked through it, anything above 20% was obvious, and what you gotta understand is, there are other states that have lower zones for this, like Colorado but they use a red dropout which means the oval itself is red, which is not read by the computer so our oval by itself is 5 to 8%, so if you lower it too much , you are going to get a lot of over votes and unintended consequences with people slightly hitting it with the pen and a stray mark will slow the system down."
00.47.50 SCANNERS "…So we’ve set it from 10 to 20 and basically when you bring it to the adjudication module if the ob, if the voters intention is obvious, then the adjudication team, Susannah is it a Republican, a Democrat and third person usually an election worker. They’ll decide or vote this is what the person…Frankly I’ve never seen an adjudication that wasn’t 3 nothing, it’s almost always obvious what the voter was intending to do…"
00.48.00 SCANNER SENSITIVITY "…So we lowered the sensitivity somewhat, but if you lower it too much you stop the whole system and if you raise it too much you’re missing votes. So we’re trying to find a sweet spot and understand a place like Colorado, Oregon, those guys spent 8 years kind of refining and doing this We launched this whole absentee ballot program about 6 weeks. So we are learning from this, we set that after a lot of testing, so 10 to 20 % is the new thing and any time there is an adjudicatable vote on there, the entire ballot is shown, you can change stuff throughout the ballot if they can see oh this person, this didn’t make the line but it’s obvious what that person mean…"
00.51.00 EXTRA BALLOTS "And one of the things that we did when we purchased the entire system for the state was that every county will be given a mobile ballot printer and with that they can…the whole point of that is you’ll have the 10% in that location. Let’s say worst things happen, everything goes to crap, power goes out, it floods the room, you can go to the county office, and the bigger counties have multiples of these obviously and they can print more and there’s going to be a rover plan to make sure those are put in,.."
00.52.15 ABOUT HAVING EXTRA BALLOTS "…on the 10% rule by itself. And the other thing they have to worry about is not just 10% for a polling location, you need to have 10% per precinct. Like in Fulton County, there’s four or five precincts there, so they have to have 10% of each type, that’s really thousands of ballots. And the rules around handling those to make sure you give people the right ones…."
00.57.14 "…on the old system it scanned and tabulated as a single action so we could never do that under our law. Under the new system you can scan without tabulating it’s kind of like the early voting, you’re scanning all the time, you’re not closing out the polls and tabulating. So that’s, we have given them that option…"
01.11.30 "…I couldn’t give a rats ass who wins an election all I want is that everyone who wants to vote, can be registered to vote and vote in the way they so choose…" INTERESTING HE NEVER MENTIONS WHETHER PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE AN ENTITLEMENT or BE LEGALLY ABLE TO VOTE