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This is my career. This is something that I put everything on the line for. I was an employee for 13 years before I ran against my boss and putting all my retirement everything on the line. The most important thing is that I was a community leader and found that there wasn't a lot of access through the county and in my particular area, Aurora, the biggest city in Arapahoe County.

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You should vote for me because I'll be very, very responsive to the public. One of the things in all the numerous conversations with people throughout the county that I've had is that there are people who are very uncomfortable with the online appointment only system.

Now, granted, there are a lot of people, especially older people, who don't have the ability to go online themselves and make an appointment. They have to get a friend or a family member to help them.

For some people, it's very inconvenient. Farmers out on the Eastern Plains don't know when it's going to rain. They want to do their government business when it's a rainy day. They want to be able to just walk in when it's convenient for them. The mom who has her little kid down for a nap, she doesn't know when her kid is going to wake up. She wants to go when it's convenient for her.

This system in which we have appointments only doesn't work for a large percentage of the population.

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I still want to continue to bring more access. I know that we've done a lot of access, but I still want to continue that. I want to continue to make sure that we have translation sheets like we do now in education in every language that is in Arapahoe County. We have 15 now where it translates how to register to vote and how to update your voter registration. Not everybody's first language is English; so it is important, especially for Aurora. There are over a hundred different languages; so it's important for me to make sure that that continues. I'm hoping that I can continue to get more access.

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My top priority is making that DMV more accessible. My second is marriage licenses: It's very, very hard to get a marriage license in Arapahoe County. There's a whole Facebook discussion dedicated to people asking, "how do you get a marriage license in Arapahoe County?" . . . On the website it says, "No walk-ins, appointments only." There's been only one time that I've checked when I've seen an appointment available for a marriage license. That's a real problem. This is a basic service of the clerk's office.

And then finally, making sure that our elections are transparent. I'm very, very passionate about transparent elections. We need to make sure that we can trust each other, and we can see what's happening because of that transparency.

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I have no concerns with machines. Just recently, the whole Dominion system was bought by Liberty Votes. The panic with everybody was that it was going to continue to be Dominion. Everybody was worried about the new ownership changing because apparently that particular owner was a former Republican and actually a former commissioner. He quickly went online and discussed this with all our clerks statewide and was assuring us that everything was going to be fine, nothing was going to change. We have a contract with them. If they were going to start changing the equipment or start making sure that we weren't able to do our audits, because we do two audits, testing the equipment before the election and then testing the equipment after the election. But no, I have no concerns. The new leadership and the new ownership of this company has walked us through everything and been very transparent.

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Yes, I have serious concerns. But I want to start off by saying we live in a society where one side doesn't trust the other side. And this distrust is growing all the time. The main thing that can keep us from devolving into something much more dangerous is transparency.

Our system right now is a black box system. There's no transparency. You can see what goes into the machines, you can see a tally that comes out of machines, but you can't see what happens inside the machines. I believe that it's absolutely important that we have a transparency in our system; where we can see what is happening and everybody can audit it. I think that is by far the most important thing that we need to do.

We need to have secure elections. We need to have voter rolls that we can trust. . . .

It used to be that the county clerks held their own voter rolls. Before 2008-2009, the county clerks were the ones who kept their voter rolls, and then they sent ballots out according to those voter rolls. Now it is handled by the state and is centralized. The county clerks have to take whatever the state gives them and use those rolls for voting.

We need something in which the county clerks are empowered to maintain their own voter rolls, because they have a much higher stake in making sure that it's done correctly.

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I would keep the system the way it is. We are not connected to the internet at all, so it is safe from AI. We are not connected to the internet, so I would keep it the way it is right now.

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Artificial intelligence is something that I use probably twenty or thirty times a day; way more than I probably ought to be using it. I see AI as a great benefit, except when it comes to our election systems. We need to keep all influence from AI completely out of our election systems. Right now, if I'm not mistaken, the Dominion Voting systems run on a Windows 10 platform. As with all products . . . .they force you to upgrade. You don't have a choice. The problem is Windows 11 already has an AI component in it. If the voting machines are being run right now with the system based on Windows, the chance that they'll be forced to upgrade to Windows 11, which has AI, is a real problem. We need that human element to make sure our elections are secure. AI has absolutely no place whatsoever in our elections and we need to do everything we can to guard against it.

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Thank you for having us. I really appreciate it. I'm honored that the residents of Arapahoe County voted me in and trusted me to lead our motor vehicle department, recording department, and election department. My goal is to make sure that every eligible voter has access to the ballot box. And that's what I've done. This is my community and my career, and I've made sure I have kept every campaign promise and more. I will continue to work for voter access for all, even if the voters decide that it's time for a change. I would appreciate your vote again in November. And I am always available to answer any questions for the Clerk and Recorder's Office. Thank you.

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I want to thank you all for being here today. I think it's absolutely essential that we make this office not about the clerk's career. We need to make this office about the people and really serving and meeting their needs; and that isn't happening now. I will make that happen if you vote for me in November. I will work for transparent elections. It's time for a change and I would be honored if you voted for me in order to make that change. Thank you.