Humboldt County Grand Jury
• 2022-2023
• Agency Response
Grand Jury 2023 Report: Humboldt County Elections Integrity*
⚠️ Aviso de traducción: Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
Findings and Recommendations 9 findings
F1
The elections procedure was secure and had many double and triple checks to make sure the election was safe and secure. Response: Agree
No recommendations for this finding
F2
There is no internal manual describing the various election duties unique to Humboldt County. This could lead to specific job duties and tasks being overlooked. Response: Agree
No recommendations for this finding
F3
pertaining to ballot drop box security. Furthermore, the office is currently in the process of or has completed the process of implementing all the recommendations except for one.
No recommendations for this finding
F4
The Candidate Guide does not explain listing order on the ballot for local government candidates, creating unnecessary confusion. Response: Agree
No recommendations for this finding
F5
Some managers did not receive the Poll Managers Training Manual but were taught from the Poll Workers Training Manual. This caused some unnecessary confusion with the successful completion of their duties. Response: Agree 3
No recommendations for this finding
F6
Some Poll Workers did not participate in mandatory training, which contributed to process errors. Response: Agree
No recommendations for this finding
F7
Having an outside nonprofit watchdog group is a useful check of ballot counting and tallying, providing validation to Humboldt County Elections. Response: Agree
No recommendations for this finding
F8
A Humboldt County Elections employee was serving on the Board of the nonprofit watchdog group validating that election. This results in the perception of a conflict of interest. Response: Agree
No recommendations for this finding
F9
There is no evidence of a Contract or Memorandum of Understanding between the Elections Office and the nonprofit watchdog volunteer group, known as the Elections Transparency Project, making the responsibilities of each entity unclear. Response: Agree 4
No recommendations for this finding
* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.