Molillo on redesigning audit process for real-time

Let me start with what I think we've learned over the years.

One, the process can feel very, very painful for campaigns, especially because when you

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.

You're in the heat of an election.

You have to disclose a lot to us.

And then when the election's over, we come back to you and we say, hey, we need all of this other documentation.

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Or what was this receipt for on this date?

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And the response we often get is that was six months ago.

I don't remember what that $10 receipt was for or whatever it was that we are asking for.

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.

I think what we are very seriously considering now, and this is why we are going to spend an intensive amount of time in the next six months or so redesigning our process,

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if we are ever going to hit 90% of audits within one year of the election, what we will realistically need to do is to create a lot more real-time back and forth between ourselves and the campaigns so that

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

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 can be looking at things closer to the time that they were disclosed to us, that we can be getting information out to the campaign so that they can correct it in a more timely and responsive way,

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.

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 then we can lighten the post-election load.

Essentially what's happening now, because so much of our technology is very, very old, and a lot of our audit processes are very manual.

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So our audit staff are really spending the time before the election to actually review and validate all of the matching claims, and this eats into their time to be able to look at the expenditure.

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

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.

Documentation that we mainly focus on in our post-election audits.

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

So what we're seriously looking at right now is how

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

How can we lighten the load of validating those matching claims to create more space for our audit staff to be able to pull the post-election expenditure work into the pre-election period

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 that campaigns are much closer to being done by the time Election Day rolls around?

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So I think it's to everyone's benefit for us to be able to do this in closer to real time.

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

We are looking at ways to redesign the whole candidate experience to make it just a more user-friendly experience and to make it less painful after 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.

I think I can go ahead and say that.

And all ideas are on the table.

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

We've actually been working with campaigns for the first time ever in sort of user research sessions to hear from campaigns what those experiences are like,

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

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

to understand what are the barriers, what are the things we think we're explaining very well and it turns out that we are not, what are ways that we can make this just a little bit more intuitive.

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.

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

And that research is going to be ongoing up until the 2029 election and beyond.

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

I will say, always give credit where credit is due.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

Having the representative work alongside you has been very helpful.

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.

I've had two, and they've both been amazing, just staying on top of things.

So I don't know how, when you added that feature, but that's a great feature.

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.