2026-11-03 - Board of Elections

02:02Mhm.

04:05>> Mhm.

06:07>> Mhm.

08:10>> Mhm.

10:12>> Mhm.

11:09>> Here we go.

11:10All right.

11:12Afternoon, welcome Athens-Clarke County

11:14Board of Elections special called

11:16meeting

11:17election day, November 3rd, 2026.

11:21The meeting is held at 2555 Lexington

11:24Road. First order on the agenda is to

11:26adopt. Chair.

11:27>> did you call this to order?

11:29>> I did not call the time, but the time is

11:324:53.

11:33>> Thank you.

11:34>> You're welcome.

11:35Chair will entertain a motion to adopt.

11:38>> I'll so move.

11:39>> I second.

11:40>> Okay. Motion by Ms. Hambros, seconded by

11:42Ms. Till. All those in favor of adopting

11:44the agenda say I.

11:45>> I.

11:46>> Okay.

11:47Um

11:49Oh.

11:50I'm not sure that we typically approve

11:52minutes at a special called meeting, but

11:54>> This is also your regular meeting for

11:56this month.

11:57>> Oh, it is?

11:57>> Yes, sir.

11:58>> Okay. I missed that memo.

12:01Anyway,

12:02on that note, you have a set of minutes

12:04in your packet from the October 13th

12:09meeting, regular meeting.

12:12The the is open for a motion to approve

12:14or we can make some edits if we need to.

12:43>> I move that we accept the minutes as

12:45printed.

12:46>> Okay.

12:47Do we have a second?

12:49>> Second the motion.

12:50>> All right.

12:51Uh motion by Ms. Fairbrother, second by

12:54Ms. Rountree.

12:55Uh all those in favor say I.

12:57>> I.

12:59>> Okay. Minutes are approved. Next item on

13:01the agenda is public comments.

13:05Here's this no members of the public

13:07wish to give comment. Next item on the

13:09agenda is a director report. Board

13:11chair recognizes director Mont.

13:15>> Thank you, chair. Welcome to the

13:16meeting, new board. We have

13:18And I will start with our um October

13:21October activity report. Um as you can

13:25see um we have a total of about um

13:28voters of 82,033,

13:31of which 73,294

13:34are active, 8,739

13:37are inactive. We had a total of 473

13:41cancellations, of which 19 were moved

13:44out of state, one requested, 59

13:47deceased, 394 felon removals, and we had

13:52eight that was

13:54um submitted through the Jarvis portal.

13:56And then as you can see as far as

13:58absentee ballots, we had um

14:012,245

14:03that were mailed out, and we so far when

14:06we did this report, we have 1,438

14:11that have been returned.

14:13And then open records requests for this

14:15month, we have that three, year to date

14:17five, no challenges, and seven voter IDs

14:22with year to date as 11.

14:24So, that completes that for us all

14:27activities for the month of October. Um

14:31election day activity updates, um you've

14:33been getting the emails all day. I'll

14:35just reiterate what we went through so

14:37far. Um

14:39advance in person, we had a total of

14:4128,000 130 votes. We

14:46as of like I say, weeks I've said that

14:48about the absentee ballots accepted. Um

14:51total in advance, um we've had 29,568

14:57voters that came out during advance

14:59voting, which was a whopping 36%

15:03turnout just for advance in person.

15:06Um

15:07As of now, as of 2:00 today, we've had a

15:11total ballot of 37,009

15:15voters. And we're in our um

15:18percentage right now is at 45% voter

15:21turnout. So, we believe that we will

15:24probably reach up to maybe up to like

15:2660% of voter turnout cuz people are

15:30really getting out to vote today. We've

15:33had no issues um as far as, you know,

15:35the polling locations opening on time,

15:38you know,

15:39no major issues, you know, that the

15:41normal things that you have to face

15:43day-to-day in an election polling

15:45location. So, they've been great. Um I

15:48sent the email out to you guys about the

15:50minor incident that happened over at um

15:52Miller Chapel AME Baptist Church

15:54yesterday where the driver hit the

15:56awning. So,

15:58you know, [clears throat] no one was

15:59injured. Um

16:01a little dent on the um U-Haul truck. We

16:03called risk management. We reported it

16:06there. Um

16:07we um talked to U-Haul. Fortunately, we

16:09did get the um safe move insurance. So,

16:12thank God, everything is covered and

16:14taken care of. We'll just continue to

16:16follow up with whatever the process that

16:17they're going to do, you know, as far as

16:20they are.

16:22And that's all I have for today. Thank

16:24you.

16:25>> All right.

16:27Do any board members have any questions

16:29on the director's report?

16:32All right.

16:35Our next agenda item is old business.

16:37There is no old business to follow up

16:40on.

16:41Next agenda item is new business,

16:43election day updates. The floor is open

16:45for anyone that has questions, comments,

16:48wants to report on something they

16:49observed or

16:51saw or

16:54You can Director can elaborate a little

16:56more on

16:57what you hear or otherwise we're good.

17:01>> Um like I said, it's been a good day. We

17:03haven't, like I said, no major anything,

17:06no accidents but you [laughter] know, at

17:08the polling location, you know,

17:10>> 2 hours and a few hours.

17:12>> We're still receiving absentee ballots,

17:14you know, as I was leaving they were

17:15like three or four people coming in. I

17:17think I had processed almost 20 myself,

17:20you know, just trying to get them in.

17:22So, we're still receiving absentee by

17:24mail. So, like I said, I think our

17:27turnout is going to be big, you know,

17:28it's going to be real high.

17:29>> And isn't the post office usually walk

17:31them over?

17:31>> And we had them to

17:34bid before I left, I believe it was

17:36about seven.

17:38And so, they would do another one round

17:40like 15 till, you know, close of the

17:43polling location. And we have had um

17:45postal services come from other counties

17:47delivering ballots that are ours as

17:50well.

17:50>> That's good.

17:51>> We've had um

17:52about how many Oh God, about six or

17:54seven I think overnight

17:57ballots that have been mailed in. So,

17:59people are bringing them in. They're

18:01bringing them in and we're processing

18:03them as we get them. So,

18:05you know, yeah. So, but no nothing

18:08major.

18:09>> Did anyone visit anywhere

18:11today?

18:12>> The airport was moving smoothly, they

18:14said that.

18:16A slow but constant.

18:19For audio.

18:21I'm missing Julia. Howle Shrout and

18:25Miriam Moore.

18:26Everything was going really well.

18:29And from my observation, people were

18:31coming in and going out and

18:33pretty much a steady stream of people.

18:36>> Okay, so you said

18:37>> I visited Cleveland Road and the

18:40Cooperative Extension office. It was

18:43very smooth.

18:45No lines, no problems.

18:48Everything was very good.

18:50>> Great. And I second that. I think

18:52everything well, there's nothing been

18:53happening at the command center, which

18:55is good news.

18:57>> [laughter]

18:58>> It's been quiet there, you know, and I

19:01think I was quite impressed Ms. Wheeler

19:02with the turnout for Miriam Moore even

19:05for advanced voting cuz they had over

19:07800 voters, you know, by themselves and

19:09that's you know, a large turnout just

19:11for Miriam Moore doing advanced voting

19:13other days been a different story, but

19:17>> [laughter]

19:18>> I mean, what? Two or three years? It's

19:20going to get bigger and bigger because

19:21>> Yeah.

19:22>> people that pass by them don't even know

19:24that they can stop.

19:26>> Yeah.

19:26>> So, next time we have an election, maybe

19:28we should go all the way down to the

19:30bypass and put some voter signs out.

19:32>> Yeah, we did put out more signage, too.

19:34You know.

19:34>> Yeah, I saw more signage. Yeah. Mhm.

19:37Yeah.

19:39Yeah, that's it.

19:40>> All right.

19:40Well,

19:42if there's nothing else, we can move on

19:44to announcements.

19:46The next regular scheduled meeting will

19:49be December 1st at 4:30 at this

19:51location, which is 2555 Lexington Road.

19:56Uh

19:57Remaining dates related to this

19:59election,

20:01computation and canvassing of ballots

20:03will continue

20:05Wednesday, November 4th through October

20:076th each day until completion at

20:10downtown at 155 East Washington.

20:13The certification meeting will happen

20:17here at uh the same location on Friday,

20:21November 6th at 5:30.

20:23Um

20:25Do we have a pre-meeting?

20:27>> 3:00.

20:28>> What's the pre-meeting for?

20:29>> 3:00.

20:30>> On the

20:30certification

20:31>> So we're going to do that here as well.

20:33Okay.

20:35And the reason the meeting is at 5:30

20:37because the UOCAVA voters have until

20:395:00 p.m.

20:40on Friday

20:41to return their ballots.

20:44And the risk-limiting audit will be held

20:46on February November 13th and Sunday

20:49November 14th

20:50from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each day

20:55until completion or 5:00 p.m. each day,

20:58whichever is

21:00earlier. Earlier.

21:03And there shouldn't I can't see a

21:05scenario with a runoff election, but I

21:07guess if there were one, it would be

21:08Tuesday, December 1st.

21:10>> Mhm.

21:12>> All right. With that, unless there's any

21:14other comments, Chair entertains a

21:16motion to adjourn.

21:17>> I'll so move.

21:18>> I made it.

21:19>> I'll second.

21:19>> All right. Motion was Gambrell, second

21:22was Hill.

21:23Meeting adjourned 5:00 oh

21:262:00 p.m.

21:27>> You can say I made it. I didn't really.

21:29>> You did.

21:31>> [laughter]

21:33>> Yeah.

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