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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