adapt……or die! - florida supervisors of elections · when i took office in 1991 •hand...
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ADAPT……OR DIE!
We Tend to Resist Change-But Change, We Must!
Innovation or Recycling an old idea?
Scene from “Moneyball”
In Today’s World-When it comes to Adapting to Change, You’re the
quick..
..Or You’re the Dead
There Was a time When Change Was Slow and Deliberate
Then, Technology began to Change Rapidly
With the Advent of the PC and Internet-some things disappeared
Record Stores/Vinyl
Dictionary
ARCADE GAMES
VCR
Movie Rental Stores
Exciting New Things Became Passe’-like Dial Up Internet & Email You Pay For
Fax Machines
Today’s Cell Phones = Soon to be Obsolete Products
Paper Maps
Cameras
Wristwatch
Land Lines
Pay Phones
Alarm Clocks
Calculators
The Rolodex
Pagers
Planners/Desk Calendars
Flashlights
The Way We Listen to Music
Things That Could Disappear Before The End of this Decade
• PAPER COUPONS
Cash/Checkbooks
Paperbacks
U.S. Postal Service
and the way we pay bills
Bank Tellers
• 25% Drop in Use for Walk-ins to Banks
The Newspaper/Classified Ads
Grocery Carts as we Know Them
By 2020..We Could see
• Space Tourism
• Personal 3D Printing
• Woolly Mammoth Reborn-Japan Riken Center
• Portable Laser Pens That Can Seal Wounds
• Insect-sized Robot Spies/Drones
• The Sunscreen Pill-protects from UV rays
• $100 Personal DNA Sequencing-to diagnose
How far Have we Advanced in Election Administration?
When I Took Office in 1991
• Hand Counting Ballots
• No Statewide Database
• Citizens Registered in person at SOE office
• Must have reason to vote Absentee
• Candidates Filed a paper copy of Treas. Report
• Crowds Gathered at Courthouse to await Election Results
• Sample Ballots published in Newspaper Only
22 Years Later…..
• Ballot on Demand
• Early Voting and No Excuse Absentees
• Electronic Poll Books-with connectivity
• Electronic Transmission of UOCAVA Ballots
• State Wide Database
• Online Services for Candidates and the Public
• Sample Ballots Mailed and published online
• Election Results published on Website
Where Do We Go From Here?
• While we face budgetary restraints-we must be willing to be open to new developments and technologies. Many breakthroughs will make us more efficient.
• Do Not be Frightened of Change
• Always Listen to New Opportunities
• “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”-Chas. Darwin
Future Early Voting Site?
Future Poll Clerk?
Old Poll Deputy learning he has been Replaced
Mobile Dropbox of the Future
Ballot Tabulator 30 Years From Now