Las Vegas taught the steps. Arizona put the statute on the record. Technology changes. The oath does not.
Source: HAND COUNT TRAINING: Take Back Our Future
This is the training reel that sits beside the statute post. It opens in Las Vegas, where young people are walked through a manual count — caller, talliers, quality control — in a bipartisan room. When the adults finished, the numbers matched. One hundred percent, twice. The lesson is not that a twelve-year-old should run a county canvass. The lesson is that a count people can see can be taught.
Then the film comes home. Donna Sherwin in Navajo County reads A.R.S. § 16-531(F)–(H) into the record: a board of supervisors may appoint a sixteen-year-old U.S. citizen as a clerk of election under adult supervision, with training and written parental permission. Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo calls that engagement remarkable. The law does not turn every minor into every election-board job. It does give counties a lawful way to let qualifying juniors and seniors learn the process from the inside.
The last third of the video is older public statements by elected officials about electronic systems — Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Kamala Harris, Ron Wyden, Mark Warner — saying machines can be too vulnerable, that test environments have been breached quickly, that vendors have resisted independent review. Those clips are the officials’ own words. A demonstration on a particular machine, or a paperless touchscreen in a hearing room, does not by itself prove that a named Arizona contest was hacked or that an outcome was changed. The video says that. So does this site.
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What the clips do justify is the demand the young people keep repeating: if both parties have warned that screens can hide an answer, then show a process that can be seen and explained. Hand by hand. Name by name. In the open.
“The truth shall make you free.”
— John 8:32
Different backgrounds. Different beliefs. One generation asking to watch what decides the day. The Board can start with the clerkships the Legislature already wrote.
Elections belong to the people. We are the people. Start now.
