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Agenda 04/23/2024 Item #10A (Resolution - Calling for a legall valid 2024 general election)SEE REVERSE SIDE  Proposed Agenda Changes Board of County Commissioners Meeting April 23, 2024 Move item 16D4 to 11E: Recommendation to terminate for convenience Agreement No. 17-7152, “Parks and Recreation Pickleball Concessionaire,” with Pickleball Enterprises, LLC, d/b/a Naples Pickleball Center. (Commissioner Kowal’s request) Notes: The Executive Summary for item 10A has been updated to note that the proposed Resolution is from United Sovereign Americans rather than the election integrity committee of the Collier County Republican Executive Committee. TIME CERTAIN ITEMS: Item 10B to be heard at 1 PM: Update on the State Veterans’ Nursing Home project from the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Item 11D to be heard no sooner than 1:30 PM: Long-Term Lease and Operating Agreement with The Gate Golf Club, Inc., (“The Gate”). 4/24/2024 3:33 PM 04/23/2024 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY That the Board consider adopting a Resolution calling for a legally valid 2024 general election. OBJECTIVE: To help ensure that the 2024 General Election is properly conducted. CONSIDERATIONS: I am in receipt of a proposed Resolution from the election integrity committee of the Collier County Republican Executive Committee, which is included in the back-up of this item. The proposed Resolution advises that “An open-source audit of the Florida 2022 General Election conducted by Florida state citizens has uncovered evidence of massive inaccuracies that violate both Federal and State laws, including: • 564,926 ineligible or uncertain registration violations found within the Florida State voter roll database. • 117,171 votes cast by ineligible or uncertain registrations. • 88,635 blank ballots. • 145,309 more votes counted than voters who voted in the 2022 general election. • No one knows who cast them. • 205,744 apparent voting violations in excess of the legal standard of system accuracy for a valid federal election. Maximum allowable system errors for the 2022 general election in Florida was 62. • Certification as defined by law, an attestation of accuracy and compliance, appears to have been fraudulent and illegal. In order to ensure a valid 2024 election, the Resolution requests that: 1. Proof of citizenship and identity to register and vote, not anonymous attestation. 2. Documented chain of custody on every ballot, regardless of entry source, maintained from voter to vote count to final canvass. 3. Secure ballots, similar to currency. Where imaging technology is used for tabulation, the security features must be verifiable in the image. 4. Voter rolls certified accurate 30 days before the start of early voting. Voters added after that date must bring proof of citizenship, identity, and address in person to a qualified official at each polling place. 5. Systems, machines, security measures, procedures, infrastructure, policy, and conduct are required to be compliant with the law regarding certification, testing, operational validation, and operational implementation. Any breach will require an adequately strong audit to verify measured outcomes were within 10% of the margin of victory at a 95% probability. 6. A scientifically randomized audit of real ballots must be performed and meaningfully witnessed, proving the error rate is smaller than ten percent of the margin of victory. Otherwise, a fully witnessed hand recount must be performed. All parties with more than 10% of the vote shall have full and effective observation rights. 7. Election operations and systems must maintain end-to-end chain of custody from voter to vote count to final canvass, including auditability and witnessed transfer with paper records. 8. Adjudication must be signed-off by party witnesses and candidate witnesses with full and effective observation rights. Candidates must be allowed immediate access to ballots, images and CVRs. Candidates may agree to use Party witnesses solely at their discretion. 10.A Packet Pg. 134 04/23/2024 9. End-to-end audits must be allowed by qualified, insured and bonded security, forensics or financial auditors. These shall not be personnel from within the election system. Reconciliation will include the vote count, ballots, adjudication, CVRs, ballot count, voter count, custody transfer, and all other paper and electronic systems including system logs, if applicable. The aggrieved party must be allowed to select their own auditor. 10. If the total of all unique variances above is more than 10% of the margin of victory, a new election must be held in the state for those candidates affected, unless it can be provably corrected by a manual hand recount with a full review of records. 11. Waiver of requirements is not allowed. Only end-to-end system compliance can guarantee the intent of the people is accurately recorded. Just obey the law. I am asking that the Board consider the Resolution, and if the Board is in agreement, adopting it. FISCAL IMPACT: None. GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: There are no Growth Management Impacts associated with the Executive Summary. LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This item has been reviewed by the County Attorney, is approved as to form and legality and requires a majority vote for Board approval. -JAK RECOMMENDATION: That the Board consider adopting a Resolution calling for a legally valid 2024 general election. Prepared by: Chris Hall, Chairman, District 2 ATTACHMENT(S) 1. Florida_Collier County BCC_Resolution for a Valid 2024 Election_4.5.2024 (PDF) 10.A Packet Pg. 135 04/23/2024 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Item Number: 10.A Doc ID: 28250 Item Summary: That the Board consider adopting a Resolution calling for a legally valid 2024 general election. Meeting Date: 04/23/2024 Prepared by: Title: Legal Assistant – County Attorney's Office Name: Wanda Rodriguez 03/06/2024 2:39 PM Submitted by: Title: Commissioner District 2 – Board of County Commissioners Name: Chris Hall 03/06/2024 2:39 PM Approved By: Review: County Attorney's Office Jeffrey A. Klatzkow Level 3 County Attorney's Office Review Completed 04/11/2024 8:24 AM Office of Management and Budget Debra Windsor Level 3 OMB Gatekeeper Review Completed 04/11/2024 8:37 AM Office of Management and Budget Agnieszka Chudy OMB Reviewer Completed 04/12/2024 9:36 AM County Manager's Office Amy Patterson Level 4 County Manager Review Completed 04/17/2024 11:01 AM Board of County Commissioners Geoffrey Willig Meeting Pending 04/23/2024 9:00 AM 10.A Packet Pg. 136 10.A.aPacket Pg. 137Attachment: Florida_Collier County BCC_Resolution for a Valid 2024 Election_4.5.2024 (28250 : Election Security Resolution) 10.A.aPacket Pg. 138Attachment: Florida_Collier County BCC_Resolution for a Valid 2024 Election_4.5.2024 (28250 : Election Security Resolution) 10.A.aPacket Pg. 139Attachment: Florida_Collier County BCC_Resolution for a Valid 2024 Election_4.5.2024 (28250 : Election Security Resolution) 10.A.aPacket Pg. 140Attachment: Florida_Collier County BCC_Resolution for a Valid 2024 Election_4.5.2024 (28250 : Election Security Resolution) 10.A.aPacket Pg. 141Attachment: Florida_Collier County BCC_Resolution for a Valid 2024 Election_4.5.2024 (28250 : Election Security Resolution)