Molillo on audit pace for previous elections

As to your second question about pace of the audits, and I'm going to separate out what we're doing for previous elections and what we're doing for future elections.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

For previous elections, we essentially are tackling our audits on three tracks right now.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have our quote-unquote older election cycles of 2021 and 2023.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We have a team.

In our audit staff that is basically clearing out any outstanding audits from those prior election cycles.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

For 2025, I think Paul probably didn't mention this, but I got my role and transitioned into it in September of 2020.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

2024, only a few months before the 2025 election cycle.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

Realistically, there wasn't a lot we could do from a technology perspective.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

We sort of had to treat our existing technologies baked in.

So we took a look at what processes that we could implement independent of the technology in order to look at how we could speed up our post-election audits.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

I think we've mentioned before this committee before, we have a 2029 goal to complete 90% of audits within one year of the election.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

We set ourselves an intermediate goal for 2025 to complete 50% of audits within one year of the election.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

And the way that we did that...

Was by starting to send out our initial document requests and kicking off the post-election audit process much earlier than we ever had before.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

So for any campaigns where the candidate lost in the primary election and didn't move on to the general election, we started issuing those

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

initial document requests in July 2025 through October 10th to begin kicking off that process.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

And I'm very pleased to say that we are at the same point now today where we have closed out 8% of post-election audits that we were in November after 2023, which was a much smaller election.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

So that was looking at what we could do within the constraints of our existing technology.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

I'm giving that information to set up.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.