2026-11-06 - Board of Elections Certification

35:50Afternoon welcome Athens-Clarke County Special Meeting Certification meeting Friday, November 6, 2026, 531 p.m. 2555 Lexington Road, Athens, Georgia. First item on the agenda is to adopt. Chair will entertain a motion.

36:09A 7.

36:12Motion is to second. Miss Fambro. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay. Agenda is adopted. We have meetings from a special meeting.

36:24Be held on Monday, June 22nd. Excuse me. The floor is open for a motion. Move to approve. Move to approve. Okay. Do we have a second?

36:43I second. All right. Motion. Mr. Yarn. Second. Miss Fambro. All those in favor say aye. Aye. I am abstaining because I was not present.

36:59I was not present either. Well, I figured, yeah. Okay. Well, let's, I vote yes, just so I pass this. It doesn't matter. Everybody will hear it. All right. Next item on the agenda is public comment. Any members of the public wish to get a comment?

37:25All right. Next item on the agenda is the director's report on the November 3rd election director. You're recognized. Okay. That's the new evening.

37:44Okay. Just on the report, the provisional portion today, what we've reviewed, we've had a total of twenty four provisional ballots that were issued and out of those fifteen were accepted and nine were rejected.

38:09The majority of the ones that were accepted were the precinct voting after five PM. We actually had a very interesting one that the voter came up in the poll pad.

38:22It says she was deceased. So, you know, we counted her ballot as well, but the other ones that were rejected would either for not being registered or registered in other counties.

38:33So, I can, you know, pass this along and I also brought the work paper documentation. Yeah. So, we have some out of counties not registered. Someone tried to vote twice. Yes.

39:04And the voters are polling place or in their absentee ballot, they have voted in person and then they actually tried to go to another location like within twenty minutes or so things that are reported.

39:19I do a test in the system. Maybe no, but I'm a report it. Oh, absolutely. The board or whoever the secretary state deadline. Okay, finish the ship on a precinct.

39:51Good with that. Oh, wait till they look at it and we go through the name of the family.

40:05What this round tree, as I said, a couple of meetings ago, if you have any questions, let's just stop and make sure you understand what we're doing and intend to, like, rush through things. So please stop me and ask questions.

40:29Like, it's easy enough saying, you know, over time. Yeah. Yeah. And that's staff's recommendation. So if we wanted to throw them all out or accept them all, we're certainly able to do that.

40:46But obviously that we're going to be in trouble if we're taking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Would you like to make a motion to accept those? Okay. Do we have a second?

41:26All right. Motion with family. Second this round tree. All those in favor today? I okay. Would you is this the copy in legacy? Yes. Okay.

41:55If they need to sign the questions, well, now, they need to date to each set of family and get in on this complete to do the ones for the question, the questions where you'll take them at the end.

42:15I think is that okay? Let's do that.

42:25Were the you call this on that list? Because I see the agenda item has provisional and you cover.

42:32Oh, we're okay. So we do not have those at this table at the moment. Yes, ma'am.

42:47We skipped ahead. It looks like the number 2. Do we want to go over the 1st item there sub item, which is an official election summary? Just give a little report on this.

43:01Okay, give a summary. Okay. All right. So, for the general election, we had 50. I can't read it. We don't have to do it. I'm sorry. I don't have a glasses. Okay.

43:30But election day, we had, um, we got a volunteer pair of readers, okay. Well, on the election day, we had 13,166 voters ballots and then the same as voters that it turned out being 17.99% advance voting.

43:56We had 28,131 ballots and voters that turn out was 38.43% absentee by mail, you ask them now, you know, 1746 excuse me, 2.39%.

44:13And right now, the total for the first and complete results right now, 43,443 voters, which the turnout out of the 73,201 active registered voters is a 58.80%.

44:35And this is not right now, including the number of provisions that we have to go in and relate to this result 15. And then, like I said, this man, we don't know how many more problems does anyone have any questions on the report?

44:59So, do we just need to tell some jokes here while we wait or shall we modify the agenda? Okay. So let's do this.

45:17Let's modify the agenda to move the you a comma after the recess that way they can get to work. Just sit here. So you want to make that motion? Okay.

45:31So, we'll make that agenda item 3, and then green numbers for 5. All right. So motion and still, did you second that? Yes. Okay. Second. Mr. Yarn. All those in favor of amending the agenda say aye.

45:50Okay. All right. Next item. Well, next we're going to recess while staff processes the provisional balance.

46:02So, the chair will entertain a motion to recess. We lost our clock. So it's 541. Yeah. Let's call it a return at 630. Okay. Yeah. Do you want to make that motion? Make a motion to return at six. Third. Second, Mr. country. All those in favor of recess. All right. Okay, six thirty.

3:13:38Calling this meeting back to order at 8/10 instead of 6/30. But here we are. We did amend the agenda to talk about the UACAVA. So how many UACAVA ballots did we receive and put in? Is that?

3:13:5866, is that what you said today? Yes, I can do that because I have both numbers. The one that just scanned in there was 18. Well, yeah, 18, 17 and 1 was a regular domestic ballot.

3:14:16Cause that was $18 a year.

3:14:18All right, so you're doing good. All right, next item on the agenda is the updated unofficial election summary, which I have a copy. Did you bring us all copies? I didn't pay attention before. Okay.

3:14:41All right, I'm going to read out the top section at least. So, on election day, there were 13,166 ballots passed 13,166 voters, advanced voting had 28,131 ballots cast absentee by mail, 1,764 with 15 provisionals, which we previously approved.

3:15:14And then we can take a vote for a total of 43,076 voters and our 73,201 registered voters for a 58.85% total turnout. All right, board members look over this, ask you any questions, and then we can take a vote to certify.

3:16:31We'll need to make 2 motions. We'll need it to the questions and then the rest of the rest of the general election. So we all talked at once.

3:16:46Were you making a motion or still still made the motion. I'll second the motion. Okay. Certification. Yeah. Will you repeat the motion again? I'm sorry I didn't hear yours.

3:16:57I don't know if I got it right. I make a motion to approve and accept the election results election results as presented in the election summary. Okay. That's good enough. Okay.

3:17:12I'll second that. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. The election results are certified and then we will go on to.

3:17:27Excuse you the questions and there were 2 questions, which was a 1% floating local option sales and use tax and the 2nd question was the renewal of the 1% educational sales tax.

3:17:45If anyone wants to look at this form before we call for a vote, the floor is open. What's the, what's our role in terms of this? What's the question? I'm trying to understand our role as the board of elections with respect to these questions.

3:18:23So, go ahead. We're certifying that these voters votes are correct and accurate for those 2 items for those 2 items we're certifying and are based based on the base for the reported.

3:18:43Yes. Yes. Yeah. Which why don't I go ahead and read those out for the 1% floating local option sales and use tax.

3:18:55There were a total of 21,648 votes for yes. 20,108 votes for no. That's a total votes. 41,756 and then 56, maybe I'm looking at 41,756.

3:19:17That's the last last page. You got a 8 on yours too. You do. Are you on the current 1? Are you on the older 1? I thought it was on the completed.

3:19:36So this is apparently, I have a new printed 253 PM. Okay. There we go. Thank you. Official and completed the top 2 official. Okay. Yeah. All right. Let's try that again. 1% floating local option.

3:20:01Sales tax. Yes. Vote 21,665. No, vote. 20,121. Total votes. 41,786 renewal of the educational sales tax. Yes. Votes of 30,281. No votes. 11,584 for total votes.

3:20:2941,865 the floor is open if this family wants to review. No, I'm good. We don't make a motion to accept.

3:20:54We don't make a motion to accept. I'm going to accept. Okay. Anyone want to 2nd that? I said, I did. Okay. Motion. Mr. Yarn second. Miss. All those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. The motion passes.

3:21:18We'll need to sign both papers. Yes. Good. Okay.

3:21:39I'll presume we sign this where it says assistant. Yeah. And we'll sign on the hold on. Yes. And then panel side. All right. Well, then the signatures are going around announcements next regular scheduled meeting board of elections will be Tuesday, December 1st at this location.

3:22:14For 30 PM 2555 Lexington road on November 13 at 10 a.m. the risk limiting audit will be held here to 25, 55 Lexington road. If it is not complete by 5.

3:22:30P. M. yeah, they will continue the next day, November 14th at 10 a.m. at the same location until done.

3:22:39And then on November 17th, the ballot image on it will happen also at 10 a.m. at this location 2555 that's in 10 road with that. I have 1 thing to say. I want to thank the staff for making my request the reality for the November 3rd.

3:23:012016 election. I had an accident to break it down. Right? Thank you all so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Anything else? Well, I generally want to congratulate the staff for a job extremely well done.

3:23:18And I haven't worked as a coworker this time for a while. It's extremely light and surprising amounts.

3:23:31Appreciate you letting us do that. Thank you for the help. Yes. Yes, I enjoyed myself immensely. And I want to say that I met Adams mother in law didn't know who I was talking to and she started talking.

3:23:54And I realized who she was. I said, oh, you're talking about Adam. He used to be on our board. We love Adam.

3:24:04So that was that was that was one of the highlights of my day. All right. With that, anyone want to give a motion to adjourn? I so move.

3:24:16We have a second second. All right. All those in favor say aye.

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