I apologize for being late, but you know what

it is like when people from this committee are...

Thank you very much. It is an honor to be here

today. I am honored to be in front of such a...

Madam Chairwoman, thank you for letting me

follow the Iowa secretary of state, because he said...

Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the

committee.

You have my written testimony which...

Thank you for this opportunity to appear

before you.

I have worked in elections administration,...

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

Let me thank the panel for coming.

Let me direct the first...

Plug a number out of the air for me so I can

understand this quantitatively. Typical election...

Mr. Gough, give me an estimate in how often in

the 2006 elections in Chicago there were reported...

So 1,300 to 5,000 complaints of errors or

problems?

Ms. Purcell, give me a similar quantitative

number.

Let me tell you all why I asked that question.

Mr. Mauro, you talked about the kind of complaints...

I am going to go quickly.

Mr. Gough, 2006 election cycle, Chicago, how many

complaints...

Same question.

That is an important point, Madam Chairwoman,

because as a lot of you know, the Supreme Court...

Am I correct to see a contradiction there?

We already have voter ID requirements in our

State, so we have to implement those now, but anybody...

I would like to recognize the Ranking Member

for his 5 minutes of questions.

H.R. 811, I am glad you asked it because it is

going to affect all of the States. It is going...

The time line is an important part of the bill

because it is asking a lot of people to do things...

The gentleman's time is expired, and, by

unanimous consent, he is granted additional 2 minutes.

Thank you. And, you know, that is exactly why I

want you to make the choice as to which----

I would now like to take my opportunity to ask

questions. And getting back to the topic of the...

Ms. Purcell.

I know, Mr. Mauro, you addressed this in your

opening.

Also, $88 is a lot more to a 16-year-old than

it might be to a 50-year-old.

I would be very interested if any of you have

just suggestions or, especially Ms. Collins-Foley,...

We have looked at that in the City of Chicago.

There has been an issue that some of these people...

We don't think it is a good idea to do that, so

that is something that we do not do.

In Iowa, basically, a lot of these officials

that work for government entities are supporting...

An availability issue. I would still like to see

it get out in the business community and have...

Thank you, and I will try to be briefer than

the first time. I appreciate your willingness to...

Thank you. And then we will save a little time

here.

Ms. Purcell, you state that the Federal...

I see. And did your county use HAVA funds for

poll worker training, or did you use your own...

And Mr. Gough, you stated in your program where

you hired tech savvy college students, which...

City funds, good.

Ms. Collins-Foley, you mentioned that, from your testimony,

it is clear...

In my experience at the polls, there is quite a

variety of jobs and some are very mundane, just...

That is excellent. It might also help to have a

separate room where they can go play video games...

I yield back, thank you.

Thank you. Madam Chairman, we do a constant

recruiting of bilingual poll workers. It is required...

We were the only county in Arizona that was

required by the Justice Department to produce a...

We are trying to deal with it.

Yes. We have to print in English, Spanish and in

Chinese, and we recruit poll workers from their...

In Iowa, it is not an issue at the present time.

We only print in English. The next census comes...

First of all, I notice your microphone is

cutting in and out. We better get that repaired.

Yeah, why don't we find Mr. Brady? I used to do

that myself.

I just want to thank you...

I wish we could control it in some way, because

I think we get some very bad laws.

Yeah.