WEBVTT 00:00:00.450 --> 00:00:09.039 - because it's nine o'clock. Officially it will stop if the clock dings above us. The special meeting 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:17.800 - of October 14th. The election board is called to order. We have minutes will deal with those that are 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:26.561 - next official regular meeting, I believe. So election central update from. I like. OK, so I wanted to 00:00:26.561 --> 00:00:29.310 - give a little bit of an update. 00:00:29.602 --> 00:00:36.034 - some people are aware, some people are not, but we do have a early voting dashboard on the Monroe County 00:00:36.034 --> 00:00:42.222 - website. It is actually in two different locations, might be three, I know for sure it's on the home 00:00:42.222 --> 00:00:48.471 - page of the Monroe County website, the voter registration and possibly on the election board as well. 00:00:48.471 --> 00:00:51.166 - I haven't been able to check if it's there. 00:00:51.426 --> 00:01:00.804 - But we are currently at three thousand three hundred and fifty nine voters as of the end of day yesterday 00:01:00.804 --> 00:01:08.766 - and yesterday was also our largest turnout day with six hundred and seventy three voters. 00:01:09.378 --> 00:01:17.053 - Right now, our registered voter total is the 91,488. We do still have some that are in pending and some 00:01:17.053 --> 00:01:24.728 - that are also still in incomplete. Those will be finalized, I believe it's today. Yeah, I'm pretty sure 00:01:24.728 --> 00:01:32.403 - it's today is the last day for us to finalize those. And then the last day for anyone to send a request 00:01:32.403 --> 00:01:38.750 - for an absentee ballot by mail is October 22nd. And travel board will begin tomorrow. 00:01:40.866 --> 00:01:49.082 - Thank you. I have a question. Yes. And of course it involves money. You know what that does. According 00:01:49.082 --> 00:01:57.218 - to my wife who works has worked afternoons. People at work the morning shift or do it 745 are they on 00:01:57.218 --> 00:01:58.654 - the clock at 745. 00:01:59.170 --> 00:02:05.012 - I'm not sure how they're clocking in right now on the time sheet because it's a written time sheet that 00:02:05.012 --> 00:02:10.854 - they do clock in on. We have said that you round up so it would be eight o'clock would be the time that 00:02:10.854 --> 00:02:16.584 - they would start. Some people are showing up at 745 like our leads who are there to try to get things 00:02:16.584 --> 00:02:22.201 - ready and get everything set up and ready for the day. So they would be clocking in at that earlier 00:02:22.201 --> 00:02:26.302 - time. The reason I ask is she works the afternoon shift and that overlap 00:02:26.498 --> 00:02:39.717 - I think it was yesterday. Okay yeah so I'm right now I am getting ready to look at increasing the number 00:02:39.717 --> 00:02:53.566 - of workers that are at early voting. For the remainder of the week starting tomorrow because of the amount of 00:02:53.730 --> 00:03:00.553 - back up that we have had. Our lines have been wrapping into that entryway and people are just jamming 00:03:00.553 --> 00:03:07.778 - as many people as they can into that little foyer area right there in the entrance. And so that's something 00:03:07.778 --> 00:03:14.868 - that I want to try to prevent from happening and want to just continue getting that line flowing quicker. 00:03:14.868 --> 00:03:21.558 - OK, thank you. That was just a. She asked me and I said, I don't know. OK, we have some resolutions 00:03:21.558 --> 00:03:23.230 - that we need to vote on. 00:03:25.698 --> 00:03:34.535 - I said we could just handle all of them at once. We're revisiting, correct, Mr. Chair, that we revisiting 00:03:34.535 --> 00:03:42.871 - the ones that we voted on last week. I think you're revisiting at least one because that one needed 00:03:42.871 --> 00:03:49.374 - to include a list that we did not have last week, and I think we have it now. 00:03:51.170 --> 00:03:57.092 - Yeah, so I think you're going to ratify the student election one for lack. I think it's called the Hoosier 00:03:57.092 --> 00:04:02.682 - Hall Pass Workers Resolution. It is. I think that is the one that gets ratified and the rest of them 00:04:02.682 --> 00:04:03.678 - can get approved. 00:04:04.258 --> 00:04:12.350 - Mr. Chair, Kylie, myself and the recruiters were at Bloomington High School North last week, and it 00:04:12.350 --> 00:04:21.170 - turned into a little competition between North and South, but we were successfully able to get a significant 00:04:21.170 --> 00:04:29.343 - number of high 16 and 17 year olds willing to serve on election day, incredible young people. And so 00:04:29.343 --> 00:04:32.094 - I will happily make the motion to 00:04:32.258 --> 00:04:40.678 - to adopt the Hoosier Hall Pass Workers Resolution today. I'll second. I think that's a good competition 00:04:40.678 --> 00:04:48.856 - to have. It was fabulous. So how many do we have now total? So the total number I'm not for sure on. 00:04:48.856 --> 00:04:50.718 - I have the whole list. 00:04:50.818 --> 00:04:57.181 - And we definitely have over 100 because from Bloomington North, we had 94 students register to work 00:04:57.181 --> 00:05:04.117 - on Election Day and from Bloomington South, we had 84. And then we also have Seven Oaks Lighthouse Christian 00:05:04.117 --> 00:05:10.672 - Academy, Edgewood High School, and then homeschooled students as well who have signed up. So you could 00:05:10.672 --> 00:05:13.726 - get to 200? Oh, easily. Well, that's good news. 00:05:14.018 --> 00:05:20.286 - I thought it was really cute when the principal got on the after the lunch period. He said he refers 00:05:20.286 --> 00:05:26.865 - to a school on the southern end of town and tells what numbers that they have. And then he says something 00:05:26.865 --> 00:05:33.319 - to the effect of. But because the Cougars really come out and turn out for their community, we're happy 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:39.588 - to report. And then he names the number. It was just an incredible opportunity. And they had another 00:05:39.588 --> 00:05:43.870 - thing going on at the same time. So we got lots of student attention 00:05:44.194 --> 00:05:51.990 - was amazing. Okay, that works. Um, do we have any discussion about the Hoosier Hall pass resolution 00:05:51.990 --> 00:06:00.020 - that. Those in favor I I opposed. All right, so we don't need to do anything with the other ones about 00:06:00.020 --> 00:06:08.050 - the sheriff's and the workers because we passed it and now we've got. We've got from both parties. Uh, 00:06:08.050 --> 00:06:13.118 - emails that they approve the people, correct? Yes, so I received 00:06:13.282 --> 00:06:20.711 - The email from the Republican Party yesterday and then the letter from the Democratic Party is dated 00:06:20.711 --> 00:06:28.213 - yesterday as well. Both of them did submit their letters and then they are referring to the list that 00:06:28.213 --> 00:06:34.686 - the recruiters use. I have emailed all three of you as well as Molly and Jeff the list. 00:06:35.330 --> 00:06:41.948 - of all of the workers, that's including your inspectors, judges, clerks, sheriffs, and Hoosier Hall 00:06:41.948 --> 00:06:48.632 - Pass students. They're all in one document. That way it's easier for you guys to review. We got that 00:06:48.632 --> 00:06:55.581 - this morning. Yes. That was the email that was sent out this morning. And then the list will be attached 00:06:55.581 --> 00:07:00.478 - to the resolution as well. I do think you need to approve the resolution. 00:07:00.834 --> 00:07:16.757 - the resolution that was approved the last time was the inspectors and judges to admit them to be able 00:07:16.757 --> 00:07:29.246 - to have training in the last two weeks. And then, um, this one is now including 00:07:30.434 --> 00:07:39.107 - Are you moved? Do you need a second? We need a second second. Discussion. Those in favor I I posed. 00:07:39.107 --> 00:07:47.952 - Alright. Oh, then I guess we're ready to move on to the discussion of the ballot. Mr. Chair, if I can 00:07:47.952 --> 00:07:56.625 - explain enhanced voting and then I have a letter that I'd like to read into the minutes. I think we 00:07:56.625 --> 00:08:00.094 - can clear this issue up pretty quickly. 00:08:01.762 --> 00:08:10.363 - with your go ahead. Go ahead. Um, last week I received an email from one of the absentee board members 00:08:10.363 --> 00:08:18.714 - at election central expressing concern for the enhanced voting as the method of delivering an email 00:08:18.714 --> 00:08:27.316 - online ballot to our military and overseas as well as our voters with vision and print disability. Um, 00:08:27.316 --> 00:08:28.318 - and so, um, 00:08:28.866 --> 00:08:35.378 - It was a rather lengthy letter. I was threatened with, if you don't do this, I will do this. And so 00:08:35.378 --> 00:08:42.476 - I reached out to the Secretary of State's office, some other clerks, just to understand, is this a statewide 00:08:42.476 --> 00:08:48.988 - issue of which I was not aware? It turned out it was not. In fact, Monroe County is the only county 00:08:48.988 --> 00:08:55.500 - having an issue. But I was able to get some information that I believe I'll be able to clarify. And 00:08:55.500 --> 00:08:58.430 - I'm going to ask Kylie to help me with this. 00:08:58.594 --> 00:09:09.882 - Kylie, is it correct that the number of voters who use the enhanced voting amounts to 1% of all registered 00:09:09.882 --> 00:09:20.747 - voters in Monroe County? Yes. So the correct number of individuals who are eligible to use this is 601 00:09:20.747 --> 00:09:27.710 - as of today. Is it correct that of that 1%, 12 people had issues? 00:09:27.842 --> 00:09:35.644 - right around that number. It's an estimate of 12 individuals who had an issue. And that only amounts 00:09:35.644 --> 00:09:43.755 - to 2% of that 1%. Yes, ma'am. And we would have that with regular absentee by mail, election day voting. 00:09:43.755 --> 00:09:51.556 - There's nothing you touch that doesn't have like a 1% error rate, correct? Yes, ma'am. And then do I 00:09:51.556 --> 00:09:57.118 - also understand that all issues for those 12 people have been resolved? 00:09:57.506 --> 00:10:03.781 - Yeah, so our absentee staff has been working digitally as well as myself on ensuring that those are 00:10:03.781 --> 00:10:10.056 - getting corrected. I've been back and forth in communication with enhanced at the beginning when we 00:10:10.056 --> 00:10:16.332 - were really seeing some larger issues that were resolved very quickly. I would say, if anything, we 00:10:16.332 --> 00:10:17.022 - were aided 00:10:17.250 --> 00:10:23.533 - to be updated and it was because they were going back to their developmental team and getting answers 00:10:23.533 --> 00:10:29.938 - and making sure that they had a full answer for us before they returned to us. And in addition to that, 00:10:29.938 --> 00:10:36.098 - anything that did come back as having an error, our absentee staff has reached out to them directly 00:10:36.098 --> 00:10:42.380 - through an email to ensure that those issues were resolved so that the voters votes would be counted. 00:10:42.380 --> 00:10:46.014 - What I understood in reaching out to other clerks was that 00:10:46.274 --> 00:10:53.535 - yet they have a few people but nothing huge and they just walk those people through that, correct? And 00:10:53.535 --> 00:11:01.079 - so this is the issues that brought up this concern are unique to Monroe County. No other county in Indiana 00:11:01.079 --> 00:11:08.552 - is having this issue. So there's not a problem with the system. There's a problem with the user, correct? 00:11:08.552 --> 00:11:10.878 - Yes. So in terms of what Enhance 00:11:10.978 --> 00:11:17.705 - that voting has relayed to us is when they go in and do the research on the issues that we have seen 00:11:17.705 --> 00:11:24.432 - and reported to them, they go back and they can do a full rundown of the steps that that voter takes 00:11:24.432 --> 00:11:31.292 - and seeing where the error happens exactly. And they have said that the almost 100%, I believe there's 00:11:31.292 --> 00:11:37.086 - maybe one or two that it wasn't and they were able to fix those have been user errors. 00:11:37.826 --> 00:11:43.628 - Mr. Chair, if I could read into the minutes a letter from the Secretary of State's office that I provided 00:11:43.628 --> 00:11:49.157 - to both election board members. Please do. Monroe County, dear Monroe County election board members, 00:11:49.157 --> 00:11:55.124 - it has come to the attention of the Indiana Secretary of State's office that questions were raised regarding 00:11:55.124 --> 00:11:58.846 - the use of enhanced voting's enhanced ballot for print disabled and 00:11:58.978 --> 00:12:05.429 - UOCAVA voters. To date, we are unaware that other Indiana counties or other states utilizing this service 00:12:05.429 --> 00:12:12.002 - have reported similar issues. It is our understanding that all reported concerns were submitted to enhanced 00:12:12.002 --> 00:12:18.088 - voting and have been acknowledged and resolved within one business day. Please note that the system 00:12:18.088 --> 00:12:24.599 - was reviewed prior to this year's primary election and approved for use by the co-directors of the Indiana 00:12:24.599 --> 00:12:28.190 - Election Division. The system is designed for ease of use, 00:12:28.450 --> 00:12:35.421 - has undergone accessibility testing and is fully integrated with the statewide voter registration system, 00:12:35.421 --> 00:12:42.261 - also known as SVRS, for election compatibility. We understand that the vendor provided several training 00:12:42.261 --> 00:12:43.774 - opportunities detailed 00:12:43.906 --> 00:12:49.616 - We will continue to provide user manuals and continue to provide user support. Indiana counties have 00:12:49.616 --> 00:12:55.325 - other options to administer accessible and overseas ballots and comply with federal requirements. We 00:12:55.325 --> 00:13:01.035 - are interested in hearing about your concerns and will be happy to follow up with enhanced voting if 00:13:01.035 --> 00:13:04.766 - you do not believe your concerns are being heard or responded to. 00:13:04.994 --> 00:13:13.933 - I would recommend changing accessible ballot vendors or discontinuing use of the enhanced voting application 00:13:13.933 --> 00:13:22.297 - at this time, less than three weeks from the general election, and that is signed by the Secretary of 00:13:22.297 --> 00:13:30.826 - State's attorney. Thank you, thank you. I have some questions about some of this also, and I I had sent 00:13:30.826 --> 00:13:34.270 - this to Molly and. I lay unto Mr Branham. 00:13:35.170 --> 00:13:42.622 - First of all, I wanted to know what training local workers had with enhanced voting. 00:13:43.202 --> 00:13:49.593 - So enhanced voting held a online virtual training that everybody was eligible to partake in anybody 00:13:49.593 --> 00:13:56.175 - who had access to SVRS at the time which all of our staff members did would have received a invitation 00:13:56.175 --> 00:14:02.566 - to this to join that training as well as that is recorded and they can go back at any time to watch 00:14:02.566 --> 00:14:08.126 - it but in addition to that in the primary when we used it for the first time they sent 00:14:08.194 --> 00:14:14.490 - training manuals that are a step by step guide. And in my opinion, I believe this step by step guide 00:14:14.490 --> 00:14:20.911 - is more user friendly than the video training that they had held. And that's the source that I go back 00:14:20.911 --> 00:14:27.207 - to. If I have a question, I go back to that manual and just look for it. It's very well laid out and 00:14:27.207 --> 00:14:29.950 - easy to use. So how many received training? 00:14:30.434 --> 00:14:37.190 - I know I for sure received the training as well as my two full time staff members. And then I'm not 00:14:37.190 --> 00:14:43.947 - sure of anybody else who logged in during that training. OK, so that would include the two that are 00:14:43.947 --> 00:14:50.703 - overseeing the absentee ballots. You don't know if they see it and then they work below and they do 00:14:50.703 --> 00:14:57.459 - the hands on mostly, but I'm the one that does the setup of the entire system itself. And there was 00:14:57.459 --> 00:15:00.094 - an issue about the signatures that are 00:15:00.194 --> 00:15:03.518 - required, has that been fully resolved? 00:15:05.026 --> 00:15:11.606 - That is one of the things that we reached out to them about to see what was going wrong with the signatures 00:15:11.606 --> 00:15:18.064 - not appearing on our end, but voters saying that they did know that they had signed it. This is something 00:15:18.064 --> 00:15:24.217 - that we are both looking at on the county level, but also in the enhanced level. Enhanced has looked 00:15:24.217 --> 00:15:30.310 - at it and seen that there are no signatures on their side of the document, so they believe that the 00:15:30.310 --> 00:15:34.270 - signature got missed when they were clicking through to do that. 00:15:34.914 --> 00:15:41.475 - does that doesn't invalidate the ballot then that we don't have the signatures if we don't have the 00:15:41.475 --> 00:15:48.298 - signatures currently the absentee staff is emailing them a copy of that affidavit affidavit and they're 00:15:48.298 --> 00:15:54.858 - signing and sending it back to us through an email so it maintains the okay yes then the email that 00:15:54.858 --> 00:16:01.615 - was forwarded to me from my party chair indicated that a few of the i don't know if they were military 00:16:01.615 --> 00:16:03.518 - overseas voters had actually 00:16:03.906 --> 00:16:10.177 - mailed instead of emailed back their ballot that's a concern because they're not in the correct kind 00:16:10.177 --> 00:16:16.448 - of sign envelopes what again what does that do to the validity of the ballot so we've asked enhanced 00:16:16.448 --> 00:16:22.905 - about that that was an option that the secretary of state's office chose to leave as an option for them 00:16:22.905 --> 00:16:29.114 - to have that ability to print it and send it back to us it doesn't change anything we still process 00:16:29.114 --> 00:16:32.094 - it the same way so those ballots that are being 00:16:32.450 --> 00:16:38.971 - done inside of enhanced ballot have to be remade with a official ballot by a bipartisan team for election 00:16:38.971 --> 00:16:45.308 - day for it to be scanned through our system through heart. So it's not going to change the system that 00:16:45.308 --> 00:16:51.891 - we're using currently. It just comes back, goes into an envelope for us to keep it secure. It's a separate 00:16:51.891 --> 00:16:54.782 - envelope than what they're mailing it back in. 00:16:54.914 --> 00:17:01.821 - and we put it into a envelope in our office that's being used for all military and overseas and VPD 00:17:01.821 --> 00:17:08.935 - ballots, and then they will be remade on election day. You indicated that Monroe County started to use 00:17:08.935 --> 00:17:16.049 - this in the primary. Was that just for the print challenged voters or was it also for the overseas and 00:17:16.049 --> 00:17:23.646 - military? We were supposed to use it for military and overseas, but in the primary it was used for VPDs only. 00:17:28.610 --> 00:17:35.381 - I had reached out to Kylie first with these questions. These were not just hitting her. No, you're fine. 00:17:35.381 --> 00:17:41.959 - I seen them and I wanted to wait until the meeting that away that it was public so that everybody had 00:17:41.959 --> 00:17:48.408 - them and not just in an email. Appreciate that very much. Thank you. But I think that also that. If 00:17:48.408 --> 00:17:55.051 - there's a problem and I'm not saying this isn't directed toward you, but if there's a problem with any 00:17:55.051 --> 00:17:57.566 - ballot that it's our responsibility to 00:17:58.050 --> 00:18:07.230 - make sure that that voters. Intention is honored, whether it's 1% or half of 1% or not. Then also. And 00:18:07.230 --> 00:18:16.410 - I'm not sure whether or not to direct this to Jeff or not, but it's my understanding that the election 00:18:16.410 --> 00:18:25.857 - board is supposed to approve any any kind of. Process. Of this kind of software and I don't recall having 00:18:25.857 --> 00:18:27.550 - this go before us. 00:18:28.930 --> 00:18:35.380 - And clearly, I don't know if it did go before you. But I do think that this is an option. I mean, it's 00:18:35.380 --> 00:18:41.643 - not the required. So I would assume that there would be a decision point with the election board on 00:18:41.643 --> 00:18:48.156 - utilizing this or not. And again, I don't know if it went through a meeting and it got approved or not. 00:18:48.156 --> 00:18:54.606 - I do think that it's clearly a state program. And the state has some confidence in it and went through 00:18:54.606 --> 00:18:58.238 - a nice, robust process to choose it. I'm just saying that 00:18:58.434 --> 00:19:06.521 - that this election board was not made aware of this until there was a problem. And I feel that it's 00:19:06.521 --> 00:19:15.417 - our responsibility to actually approve anything like this. When this was presented to the Clerks Association, 00:19:15.417 --> 00:19:23.747 - my understanding was that it had already been approved for use. I did not realize that it was optional 00:19:23.747 --> 00:19:24.798 - and that the 00:19:25.794 --> 00:19:35.046 - have to approve it. It was as you heard me say it was approved by the co directors of the Indiana Election 00:19:35.046 --> 00:19:43.951 - Division. It was passed on to us at conferences. We are the only county that is having an issue. Other 00:19:43.951 --> 00:19:50.782 - counties love this. Um and so. You have options after my understanding is, um. 00:19:51.234 --> 00:19:58.226 - elections and then the next secretary of state will have an option as to whether to continue with enhanced 00:19:58.226 --> 00:20:04.172 - voting. Again, every type of voting has some type of error rate. Yes, I agree with you. It 00:20:04.172 --> 00:20:11.164 - is our responsibility to help that voter. But you and I both know that all three of us will be reconciling 00:20:11.164 --> 00:20:17.699 - ballot ballots even on elect. I'm sorry up to Election Day for people who we're trying to ascertain 00:20:17.699 --> 00:20:19.006 - their voter intent. 00:20:19.234 --> 00:20:26.849 - This is no different. So to to blow this up like it is something like something nefarious is going on 00:20:26.849 --> 00:20:34.612 - was simply unnecessary at a time where we are trying to get through a very better than expected turnout 00:20:34.612 --> 00:20:40.734 - election. Thank you. I also want to add that at the state conference in December, 00:20:40.834 --> 00:20:47.560 - They the way that it was printed presented for the enhanced ballot was that this is what we're using 00:20:47.560 --> 00:20:54.286 - and it wasn't necessarily brought across as an option while at that conference because I had stopped 00:20:54.286 --> 00:20:57.150 - and talked to both Angie and Matthew about 00:20:57.378 --> 00:21:03.034 - the enhanced because we had used we hadn't used it yet because it was the primary was coming up. That 00:21:03.034 --> 00:21:08.690 - would have been the first time that we used it. And I asked them some questions at that time. And the 00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:14.290 - way that it was presented to me was definitely more so of this is what we're using and less of a you 00:21:14.290 --> 00:21:20.001 - have an option to use this. So that's why I want to have thought that it would have came across to the 00:21:20.001 --> 00:21:24.382 - election board as a vote. But then again, I. I'm just the election supervisor. 00:21:24.642 --> 00:21:31.254 - And I when I actually read the contract between the Secretary of State's office and enhanced voting 00:21:31.254 --> 00:21:38.263 - LLC, it said that it would be made available. It did not. The contract did not say that this is something 00:21:38.263 --> 00:21:44.874 - that would be used statewide. In presentation is everything the presentation and you were there was 00:21:44.874 --> 00:21:51.486 - indicative that it did not. It appeared that it was a done deal to me and and I it sounds like more 00:21:51.486 --> 00:21:53.470 - than one person thought that. 00:21:53.986 --> 00:22:00.896 - Yeah, I'll just add that I've not received a copy of the contract. That generally is something that 00:22:00.896 --> 00:22:07.876 - would go to the clerk and. Yeah, I mean, I've not seen contract and I've not been able to get access 00:22:07.876 --> 00:22:14.786 - to a contract either, so and I don't have a contract because obviously a contract would have had to 00:22:14.786 --> 00:22:20.798 - have some review and so I think the contract that the state had, which I found online. 00:22:21.314 --> 00:22:26.826 - I just want to clarify there is no local contract here this is a contract with the with the state of 00:22:26.826 --> 00:22:32.284 - Indiana with the vendor and the state of Indiana has made that available for us to use we would not 00:22:32.284 --> 00:22:37.850 - review that contract because it's not ours we're not paying anybody for it's a free service to us for 00:22:37.850 --> 00:22:43.308 - this so we wouldn't we wouldn't review that contract because that has been reviewed by the attorney 00:22:43.308 --> 00:22:45.982 - general's office and and done at the state level 00:22:46.338 --> 00:22:52.987 - I totally agree. I just didn't saying that there's nothing in the contract that's that specifies that 00:22:52.987 --> 00:22:59.700 - this is to be used throughout the state. That's all. So we get this from the state. Are we paying them 00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:06.414 - for this? My understanding is that it is provided to all the counties free of charge is being paid for 00:23:06.414 --> 00:23:13.258 - by the state. We chose to use something else from somebody else. Would we have to pay for that? Probably 00:23:13.258 --> 00:23:16.126 - assuming there's a cost associated with it. 00:23:16.258 --> 00:23:24.528 - Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chair, just in terms of trying to close this loop again, all reported concerns 00:23:24.528 --> 00:23:32.482 - worse that were submitted to enhance voting have been acknowledged and have been resolved within one 00:23:32.482 --> 00:23:40.909 - business day. I haven't been into early voting a lot, but sitting in there, there are people that struggle 00:23:40.909 --> 00:23:45.950 - with. Filling in a box. I mean, it just. Nothing is going to be 00:23:46.722 --> 00:23:55.742 - that nobody has an issue with it. Correct. And if those issues are resolved, it's fine with me. 00:23:56.450 --> 00:24:03.616 - I believe that a competitor of enhanced voting would be democracy live. That is also available free 00:24:03.616 --> 00:24:10.997 - for use of counties. I spoke with the Marion County clerk the other night, and I believe that they use 00:24:10.997 --> 00:24:18.306 - democracy live. So there is no payment. It is just designed to make it easier. And how many voters do 00:24:18.306 --> 00:24:25.758 - we have at this time, Kylie? Overall, yes, like registered voters. Yes, 91,000 91,000 of 91,012 people. 00:24:25.954 --> 00:24:34.733 - that has been resolved. We can hold the hands of 12 people and get them through this like we do any 00:24:34.733 --> 00:24:43.600 - other voter that we have an issue and we're trying to reconcile. So that they can successfully vote. 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:52.554 - Thank you, Mr Chair. Thank you, Claire Brown. I have a question. When we used Omni ballot in 2024, do 00:24:52.554 --> 00:24:54.398 - you know if that was 00:24:54.562 --> 00:25:02.017 - the same situation of where it wasn't approved but used, or was it one that was brought to the election 00:25:02.017 --> 00:25:09.185 - board for approval beforehand? I am not aware of Omni Ballot being brought to the election board. I 00:25:09.185 --> 00:25:16.354 - was just curious because I was wondering how that transition would have looked if it was one of the 00:25:16.354 --> 00:25:22.590 - ones that we did have approved by the election board prior. Yeah, just curious, sorry. 00:25:23.810 --> 00:25:31.101 - but 12 people out of 91,000, correct? Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. Do we have any public comment 00:25:31.101 --> 00:25:38.249 - from anyone? Oh, I'm sorry. Just a couple of things I'd like to ask about. Is there already a local 00:25:38.249 --> 00:25:45.397 - judge who we know will be working on Election Day? Yes, there is, and I have him in my phone. Spoke 00:25:45.397 --> 00:25:51.902 - to him yesterday. Thank you. And is that possible for us to know who that is? Judge Dikof. 00:25:53.794 --> 00:26:03.639 - Also, I was looking. Last evening at the form that gets filled out of somebody casts a provisional ballot 00:26:03.639 --> 00:26:13.205 - and at least what was available at the state website and maybe this is in not current on the back, but 00:26:13.205 --> 00:26:20.542 - it says that the voter has until 3 PM. 10 days after election day. Not noon on 00:26:20.802 --> 00:26:28.978 - 10 days after election day to cure their provisional ballot. The election board has to have all of them 00:26:28.978 --> 00:26:36.918 - cured by 3 p.m. The voter has until noon 10 days after, which is why we begin the provisional ballot 00:26:36.918 --> 00:26:45.094 - hearing at 1201. Right, right, right. The election board has election board has to have all provisional 00:26:45.094 --> 00:26:49.182 - ballots cured by 3 p.m. 10 days after the election. 00:26:49.346 --> 00:26:58.209 - I do appreciate that. I just want to make sure that there was no confusion about that. Yeah, thank you. 00:26:58.209 --> 00:27:06.731 - Are we going to start fixing that? Go ahead. Okay. So are we also going to set up our first meeting 00:27:06.731 --> 00:27:16.190 - for January, sir? I would assume that the first Thursday is January 7th and that would be our January meeting. 00:27:20.290 --> 00:27:26.657 - So is there not plans to have other meetings? Well, we do have our professionals and we have some required 00:27:26.657 --> 00:27:32.726 - so we can have specials. But I have little interest in meeting two days after the election, right? So 00:27:32.726 --> 00:27:38.735 - we normally don't meet two days after the election, but we will meet in December because we have the 00:27:38.735 --> 00:27:44.745 - post election audit in December. And so the election board will have to come together after that to. 00:27:44.745 --> 00:27:47.006 - Formally, does that happen? Well, OK. 00:27:51.266 --> 00:28:01.085 - I mean, just so we don't forget. I'm with you. That first Thursday of December is an issue for me. OK, 00:28:01.085 --> 00:28:05.470 - yeah, that's an issue from the weekend. So I. 00:28:06.050 --> 00:28:12.866 - I'm not 100% sure, but I'm almost positive that the 2nd of December is when our post election audit 00:28:12.866 --> 00:28:19.750 - is. I'll have to go back and verify that. I know I sent that awhile back in an email, so it might be 00:28:19.750 --> 00:28:26.771 - one that's just been lost. I'll make sure that I send that again to update everybody. So we're looking 00:28:26.771 --> 00:28:31.678 - at January 7th for the next. That's the first Thursday in January, yes. 00:28:34.722 --> 00:28:41.164 - And then we're still wanting to do the 1.30 PM on first Thursday of every month. As we have a better 00:28:41.164 --> 00:28:47.989 - I mean there are better times for me, but it's not that big of a deal. I was going to say in my experience 00:28:47.989 --> 00:28:54.367 - from other groups like this that generally if we're because that we know that there's going to be a 00:28:54.367 --> 00:29:01.192 - change in the membership. If we set up the first meeting of the month, then we can set up the the meetings 00:29:01.192 --> 00:29:04.254 - for the rest of the year at that first meeting. 00:29:04.610 --> 00:29:10.057 - I mean, that's typically how I will handle most of the boards and commissions that I oversee is that 00:29:10.057 --> 00:29:15.558 - we keep the schedule for the first meeting in January. We go ahead and make sure reserve the room for 00:29:15.558 --> 00:29:21.059 - the rest of the year because 90% of them want to continue that schedule. But then we always have that 00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:26.775 - conversation at the first meeting. Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I was making sure because whenever 00:29:26.775 --> 00:29:32.384 - I reach out to TSD to schedule the that first meeting of the year, they generally ask me when we expect 00:29:32.384 --> 00:29:34.110 - the rest of the meetings to be. 00:29:34.914 --> 00:29:47.878 - That's fine until we have a better idea. I'd like to move that we. That January the 7th at 1.30 here 00:29:47.878 --> 00:29:56.734 - in the net you Hill room. That's fine. Just. Well, second. Hi hi hi. 00:30:01.954 --> 00:30:11.489 - of the public notice for election day as well as the night before. They were already in the annual notice 00:30:11.489 --> 00:30:20.484 - for the whole year, but I'm going to send out a reminder one for those two days. And then I'll send 00:30:20.484 --> 00:30:29.569 - out a reminder for the provisional ballot hearing as well. Yeah, that's the 13th at noon. Yes. Okay. 00:30:29.569 --> 00:30:30.558 - All right. 00:30:33.026 --> 00:30:40.823 - anything else we need to do. Kylie do we have any building update? I actually just got an email this 00:30:40.823 --> 00:30:48.620 - morning that we will be getting contacted soon for having the additional cameras installed in to the 00:30:48.620 --> 00:30:56.339 - space that have been requested. This is in the hallway of where the ballot room server room and ABS 00:30:56.339 --> 00:31:00.894 - office are. I've requested that that one be added from the 00:31:01.122 --> 00:31:07.833 - report that we got back from CISA. And then our speaker and microphone should be getting installed soon. 00:31:07.833 --> 00:31:14.544 - I know it was supposed to happen late last week, early this week. So I'll reach out to Richard to ensure 00:31:14.544 --> 00:31:20.999 - that that gets taken care of. And then we did have an incident yesterday that has been issued to the 00:31:20.999 --> 00:31:27.454 - maintenance department as well as a few others, and they are already taking care of that. Thank you. 00:31:29.538 --> 00:31:36.544 - I would just say as a public comment that I early voted yesterday and it was very efficient. The people 00:31:36.544 --> 00:31:43.415 - were very friendly and it was a good experience. Thank you so much. That's just Tuesday for us. Yeah. 00:31:43.415 --> 00:31:49.950 - Yeah, so yesterday, like I said, was a record high for us for this election so far and I will be 00:31:50.114 --> 00:31:56.306 - reaching out to the leads to see about increasing staffing for the remainder of this week because we 00:31:56.306 --> 00:32:02.560 - have been every day this week so far there has been a line multiple times during the day. And a bunch 00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:08.752 - of people show up anywhere there's going to be a line. Yes. Unless you woefully overstaff, it's just 00:32:08.752 --> 00:32:15.128 - it's going to happen. There was not a line at 830. Good. It was great. Good. First thing in the morning 00:32:15.128 --> 00:32:19.358 - is perfect. Yep. All right, then move to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. 00:32:19.778 --> 00:32:22.526 - Second. Those in favor aye. Aye.