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Minnehaha County resident urges hand counting of ballots during public comment
Summary
At public comment, Minnehaha County resident Jean Chiles urged the commission to adopt hand counting for elections, saying hand counting is "easy, inexpensive, auditable, transparent, verifiable, public, secure" and listing multiple objections to electronic tabulators; no response was recorded in the meeting transcript.
During the public comment period of the Minnehaha County Commission meeting, Jean Chiles of Minnehaha County urged commissioners to use hand counting for elections and listed multiple concerns she associated with electronic tabulators.
Chiles told the commission: "Hand counting does not require any of the following, cybersecurity, EAC certification, expensive machines, expensive software agreements, software updates performed by outside vendors, equipment storage security, concealed audit trail, lawsuits for audit trail... hand counting is easy, inexpensive, auditable, transparent, verifiable, public, secure."
Chiles said she did not write the brief speech but agreed with its contents and urged the commission to consider hand counting "if you truly represent We the People." The transcript contains no recorded response from commissioners during the public comment segment.
This was recorded as part of the meeting's public comment period; the transcript does not record follow-up action or a formal agenda item on voting procedures.
