WEBVTT 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:10.198 - All right, the October meeting of the rural county election board is called to order. The election central 00:00:10.198 --> 00:00:19.643 - update is our first thing. Sorry, ma'am. You're fine. So for our current absentee turnout as of right 00:00:19.643 --> 00:00:25.662 - now, we are looking at 1348 total ballots that have been issued. 00:00:25.762 --> 00:00:33.686 - 265 ballots have already been returned and 36 travel board requests have been received and travel board 00:00:33.686 --> 00:00:41.610 - will begin on October 15th. The last day to turn in a application to vote by mail will be October 22nd. 00:00:41.610 --> 00:00:49.534 - And I just wanted to do a little bit of compare and contrast from 2022 at this time versus now in 2022. 00:00:49.634 --> 00:00:59.498 - We were at 1,271 that had been issued, 154 that had been returned, and zero travel board requests at 00:00:59.498 --> 00:01:09.362 - that time. So we are seeing an increase currently from the 2022 election. In addition, I also wanted 00:01:09.362 --> 00:01:19.422 - to give an update on voter registration totals currently. We are up to 76,238 active, 14,218 inactive, 00:01:19.522 --> 00:01:27.245 - with a total of 90,456 registered voters. 536 are pending and 17 are incomplete. And then one last thing 00:01:27.245 --> 00:01:34.747 - that's not on the agenda that I was able to get completed and wanted to go ahead and give you guys an 00:01:34.747 --> 00:01:42.101 - update on is the legal notice of the general election has been sent and it will be published in the 00:01:42.101 --> 00:01:43.646 - newspaper on Monday. 00:01:45.442 --> 00:01:54.374 - The original deadline on that is October 18th and we are ahead of schedule on that. That's wonderful. 00:01:54.374 --> 00:01:59.102 - Thank you. Mr. Kreider, we're ready to hear from you. 00:02:07.426 --> 00:02:13.923 - Good afternoon, board members, Richard Crider, Monroe County Building and Fleet. I actually don't have 00:02:13.923 --> 00:02:20.483 - a ton to update from our last meeting, but I will let you know that next week, this week and next week, 00:02:20.483 --> 00:02:26.791 - I've got a delivery and setup scheduled for some kitchen equipment, refrigerator, new water cooler, 00:02:26.791 --> 00:02:29.566 - the filter type, not the heavy bottle type. 00:02:29.666 --> 00:02:36.737 - We'll be doing some work around the shoot, adding some parking lot signage to indicate what's reserved 00:02:36.737 --> 00:02:43.946 - and what's available. And then just kind of addressing some smaller projects as we move along from needs 00:02:43.946 --> 00:02:51.292 - that arise. And that's that's all I have for you this time around. Any questions? You're getting finished, 00:02:51.292 --> 00:02:56.510 - right? In there. Good. Yeah. All right. Any anything from any of the board? 00:02:58.338 --> 00:03:06.179 - Thank you, sir. All right. Thank you. Hey, we have new business. We need to schedule a special meeting 00:03:06.179 --> 00:03:14.325 - for to approve Election Day workers. Who's your help? Ask workers and a resolution for use of the sheriff. 00:03:14.325 --> 00:03:21.634 - One of the things that we have heard from the grapevine is October 5th at nine a.m. would work. 00:03:21.634 --> 00:03:26.430 - Miss Molly, can you check or do you have wherewithal to check? 00:03:27.170 --> 00:03:36.807 - Monday at 9 a.m. all right I don't mean to um if we had a meeting Monday at 9 a.m. I don't think you 00:03:36.807 --> 00:03:46.349 - can meet the 48-hour notice rule okay then I guess we have a 9 a.m. and how about Tuesday at 9 a.m. 00:03:46.349 --> 00:03:48.830 - check the availability of 00:04:01.442 --> 00:04:11.454 - could that notice go out today, if Tuesday works? Yes. That would work for you? We will make it work, 00:04:11.454 --> 00:04:18.718 - just like we made today work. I know Monday was better, but I've got you. 00:05:26.882 --> 00:05:34.080 - So we were both looking at when the deadline will be for the party chairs to submit the names 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:41.814 - and appointments to the election board. Their deadline would be the 13th at noon. So I'm thinking we 00:05:41.814 --> 00:05:49.624 - should probably try to just schedule a meeting that following week instead of trying to do on the 5th 00:05:49.624 --> 00:05:56.286 - to give them until their deadline at least. So that'd be the week of the 12th and then 00:05:56.930 --> 00:06:08.005 - I would suggest probably 14th, 15th, or 16th, or we could wait till the following week if needed. Okay, 00:06:08.005 --> 00:06:18.867 - if we set the 19th, that's the following week. Look at your calendars. Do you have any? I'd rather do 00:06:18.867 --> 00:06:24.830 - sooner than later. I'd rather not push up against that. 00:06:25.090 --> 00:06:32.227 - So could we talk? The only thing that, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. Go ahead, I thought 00:06:32.227 --> 00:06:39.364 - you were done. Did we talk about Wednesday the 14th or Thursday the 15th? I'd prefer the Wednesday if 00:06:39.364 --> 00:06:46.361 - possible. Wednesday, I have an 1130 appointment. How long should this take? I would think not very. 00:06:46.361 --> 00:06:52.798 - No, it shouldn't. But we're also discussing about having them be appointed before training. 00:06:53.442 --> 00:07:01.060 - So one thing that I could do is discuss with the chairs to see if they could get us there and vectors 00:07:01.060 --> 00:07:08.828 - and judges. And we still hold the meeting on the 5th to approve those since training begins on the 6th. 00:07:08.828 --> 00:07:14.878 - And then we'll come back that week later to approve the clerks and the sheriffs. 00:07:15.490 --> 00:07:21.628 - since their training won't begin until the last two weeks of October. We can't do the fifth or can we 00:07:21.628 --> 00:07:28.007 - do the fifth for this? Well, we the sixth would be what we have to do. Sorry. Yeah. OK. Oh, and nine a.m. 00:07:28.007 --> 00:07:34.145 - would be fine because training doesn't start till one thirty. If we met on the sixth at nine o'clock, 00:07:34.145 --> 00:07:40.283 - we could get some business that needs to be done. Done. Correct. Inspectors and judges. OK, with you. 00:07:40.283 --> 00:07:45.278 - You too. OK, so the sixth meeting will be six to nine o'clock. Excuse us while we. 00:07:46.114 --> 00:07:57.854 - this in, folks. Do we know if this room is free? I am still waiting on confirmation. It might just be 00:07:57.854 --> 00:08:10.054 - quicker if I run into the office and ask. We will tentatively set. Oh, she took off. Okay. She's checking 00:08:10.054 --> 00:08:11.550 - on the room. 00:08:13.506 --> 00:08:33.694 - It was great awareness of me. She took off and I was typing and had no clue. Probably not a good sign. 00:10:09.090 --> 00:10:16.129 - get the thumbs up from Molly. So our meeting will be October 6th at 9 a.m. right here to approve those 00:10:16.129 --> 00:10:23.168 - people. Thank you, ma'am. I also checked on the 14th if you wanted to schedule that second meeting and 00:10:23.168 --> 00:10:30.002 - the 14th is available all day. We're going to have to meet the things we may as well. Okay. Are you 00:10:30.002 --> 00:10:36.905 - folks okay with morning? I have an 1130 appointment. I'm always okay with morning. Are you okay with 00:10:36.905 --> 00:10:38.750 - with nine o'clock on that? 00:10:40.034 --> 00:10:54.629 - We will also set that on a night. And just go ahead and post them all now. Yep. Oh, yes, absolutely. 00:10:54.629 --> 00:11:06.622 - All right, so that takes care of what we need to from your office, correct, ma'am? 00:11:12.706 --> 00:11:19.312 - We good then? We're okay. We've got those two. It's okay. All right. We move on to any public comment. 00:11:19.312 --> 00:11:25.791 - I'm sorry. That was all together, wasn't it? Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that was all together. We have 00:11:25.791 --> 00:11:32.205 - to do it those individually. So that was scheduling the meeting for those three following items. So 00:11:32.205 --> 00:11:38.683 - that's going to be approving the Election Day workers doing the Hoosier Hall pass resolution and the 00:11:38.683 --> 00:11:40.222 - resolution for sheriff. 00:11:40.354 --> 00:11:47.860 - Those are those meetings. That's what I thought. OK, but that was a good catch. Go ahead. Ask questions. 00:11:47.860 --> 00:11:55.438 - My chair wanted me to ask this. I don't know where this came from, but supposedly there were some updates 00:11:55.438 --> 00:12:02.801 - to SVRS that showed voters. Been registered in Greene County, now in Monroe County, and again, I don't 00:12:02.801 --> 00:12:08.734 - know what where this originated, but I was asked to find out if that has occurred. 00:12:09.346 --> 00:12:16.078 - Yes. So the state did send out a list of addresses that were showing that they were in other counties. 00:12:16.078 --> 00:12:22.745 - They were registered in other counties. But when going in and looking at the addresses, they actually 00:12:22.745 --> 00:12:29.281 - should have been in a different county. So it wasn't just here. We didn't bring in just voters from 00:12:29.281 --> 00:12:35.294 - Greene County. We also pulled in from Lawrence and I want to say Brown as well and Owen. So 00:12:35.394 --> 00:12:42.314 - Every single county received a list of registered voters who were registered in one location, but that 00:12:42.314 --> 00:12:49.235 - address had showed up in another county. We went through and did the voter cleanup to ensure that they 00:12:49.235 --> 00:12:55.954 - were registered in the correct counties. Do you have any sense of how many additional voters Monroe 00:12:55.954 --> 00:12:58.238 - captured versus how many we lost? 00:12:58.338 --> 00:13:05.769 - I will say we didn't lose very many and majority of them were registered in other counties that should 00:13:05.769 --> 00:13:12.479 - have been registered here. So we did increase a little bit. But I want to say our total list 00:13:12.479 --> 00:13:19.767 - was approximately 15 to 20 names. So OK. Yeah. And then also with early voting starting next Tuesday 00:13:19.767 --> 00:13:27.198 - in the past there's been the clerk has been in ads and stuff. Is that going to be happening this year? 00:13:27.554 --> 00:13:41.578 - What's going on with the advertising? We have a radio advertisement. When we worked out the radio, we 00:13:41.578 --> 00:13:56.702 - did it for both the primary and the general. Okay. Thank you. Now I guess we're ready for any public comment. 00:13:56.930 --> 00:14:04.397 - Motion to adjourn. Second. Those in favor, aye. Aye. Motion. We will see you on the 6th, which is not 00:14:04.397 --> 00:14:07.838 - very far from now, so. Yeah. Thank you, folks.