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WE WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN THE MEETING OF THE PRECINCT COMMITTEE OF THE BUFORD COUNTY BOARD OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES THAT WE EXPERIENCED TODAY, BUT NONETHELESS, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFICIALLY CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER AND WE WILL START BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
UM, I'D LIKE TO, UM, SORT OF SHARE SCREEN AT THIS TIME REGARDING THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING, AND WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO, UM, ACHIEVE ALL OF THESE, UM, AMBITIOUS GOALS AT THIS TIME, BUT AT LEAST WE'D LIKE TO START.
UM, THE PURPOSE OF THIS MEETING TODAY IS TO SORT OF IDENTIFY WHICH PRECINCTS WILL NEED CHANGES OR REALIGNMENT BASED ON THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS THAT EXCEED 1500, UM, MARIE GAVE A VERY DETAILED, UM, REPORT ON YESTERDAY THAT GAVE US A RUNNING START ON IDENTIFYING WHICH PRECINCTS THERE ARE THAT WE MAY NEED TO LOOK AT, BUT WE STILL NEED TO ESTABLISH SOME PRIORITIES WITHIN THOSE GIVEN AREAS TO DECIDE WHERE WE WILL START, BECAUSE IT IS A LARGE VOLUME OF WORK.
AND WE WANT TO CONSIDER THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL PRECINCTS THAT ARE SLIGHTLY MORE THAN 1500.
AND THIS SHOULDN'T SAY 15,000, IT SHOULD SAY 1500.
UM, CHANGE A LITTLE PERIOD HERE.
I THINK THAT WE HAVE A FEW THAT ARE MANAGEABLE, EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY HAVE A BIT MORE THAN 1500.
SO WE WANT TO JUST BE PRACTICAL AND LOOK AT THAT AS WELL.
WE ALSO WANT TO IDENTIFY, AND WE HAVE A CHART THAT WE WERE GIVEN ON YESTERDAY AT MEETING THE LOCATION OF THOSE LARGE.
AND I WOULD THINK THAT WE WOULD, UM, COME UP WITH A CHART THAT WOULD LIST EACH COMMISSIONER AND WHICH, UM, PRECINCTS FALL UNDER THE GUIDANCE AND THE MONITORING OF THOSE COMMISSIONERS.
SO THAT WE WOULD KNOW AT WHAT INTERVALS WE NEED TO PROBABLY CALL THAT COMMISSIONER IN TO DO SOME INDIVIDUALIZED WORK WITH THE COMMITTEE, BUT WE WOULD, UM, DO THAT.
SECONDLY, AND AS I INDICATED THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL, UM, PRECINCTS THAT NEED TO BE REVIEWED.
AND, UM, OF COURSE WE'RE GONNA PAIR THOSE WITH THE COMMISSIONERS.
AND JUST VERY BRIEFLY, MARIE IDENTIFIED 18 PRECINCTS WITH 1800 TO 2,995 REGISTERED VOTERS.
AND WE ALSO IDENTIFIED 14 PRECINCTS WERE 1500 TO 1,799 REGISTERED VOTERS.
I WOULD THINK THAT WE WOULD BE PRUDENT AND LOOK AT THOSE THAT MAYBE ARE HAVING PROBLEMS IN TERMS OF ALLOWING PEOPLE TO VOTE IN A TIMELY MANNER AND JUST MAYBE PRIORITIZING AND MAKING THOSE FIRST.
UM, AND I ASKED THAT WE ALL REMEMBER THAT ALL OF OUR RECOMMENDED CHANGES NEED TO GO THROUGH OUR LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION AND WE ARE HERE TO TACKLE A PROJECT, BUT NOT TO HAVE THE FINAL APPROVAL ON A PROJECT.
SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR LEGISLATORS DURING THIS PROCESS CAN BE OPEN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THEY MAY HAVE AND JUST BE WILLING TO SHARE INFORMATION.
UM, WE NEED TO DECIDE ON THE PROCESS AND THE PROCEDURE THAT MAY NEED TO BE UTILIZED WHILE WE NEED TO INVOLVE IN.
UM, HE IS A RESOURCE, UM, THAT BUFORD COUNTY, UM, HIRES, AND HE HAS A VAST AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE.
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NEED TO PROBABLY SCHEDULE SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH HIM TO WORK ON DESIGNATED PRECINCTS AFTER WE'VE OUTLINED THOSE.AND MOST DEFINITELY WE NEED TO INVOLVE ALL OF OUR COMMISSIONERS IN THIS PROCESS.
I WOULD HOPE THAT LATER ON DURING THE MEETING THAT MARIE WOULD OUTLINE SOME DO'S AND DON'TS, UH, RELATIVE TO PRECINCT REALIGNMENT, AND, UM, PROBABLY SOME THINGS THAT WE NEED TO JUST THINK ABOUT AND KEEPING THE FOREFRONT OF OUR DECISION MAKING PROCESS, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU DON'T CUT CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSES IN HALF.
THERE ARE SOME, THERE ARE SOME DEFINITE DO'S AND DON'TS THAT WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND.
AND I WOULD THINK THAT WE NEED TO LIST THOSE AND HAVE THOSE IN FRONT OF US AS WE MAKE DECISIONS.
AND FINALLY, WE NEED TO DECIDE ON A TIMEFRAME FOR GETTING THE WORK DONE.
WILL THIS BE NEVER IN MY WILDEST IMAGINATION? COULD IT BE DONE BY THE MAY 31ST SPECIAL ELECTION STATE PRIMARY ELECTION ON JUNE 14TH? I DON'T THINK SO, BUT THEN THERE IS A GENERAL ELECTION THAT'S COMING UP NOVEMBER 8TH.
SHOULD THAT BE A TARGET OR SHOULD WE SAY SOMETIMES DURING 20, 22 OR EARLY 20, 23, THAT'S UP FOR THE COMMITTEE TO DECIDE UPON THE APPROVAL OF THE ENTIRE BOARD.
SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WANT IT TO LOOK AT.
AND, UM, I CAN JUST KIND OF TAKE NOTES RIGHT HERE, AS YOU MAKE SUGGESTIONS.
UM, ANYBODY WANT TO LEAD US INTO, UM, IDENTIFY PRECINCTS.
I THINK THIS BLUE SHEET THAT YOU GOT YESTERDAY, PRETTY MUCH OUTLINE WHICH ONES NEED TO BE TACKLED.
UM, I AM GOING TO SUMMARIZE THOSE ON ONE PAGE, IF YOU WANT ME TO, AND IT WILL FALL INTO THESE TWO CATEGORIES, THE 18 THAT HAVE MORE THAN 1800 AND THE 14 WITH 1500 TO 1700 REGISTERED VOTERS.
AND THEN THOSE COMMISSIONERS THAT HAVE THOSE, WE WILL, UM, CONVERSE WITH THEM AS TO WHAT THEY SEE AS PRIORITIES.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE BEVERLY I DON'T MIND MAKING THE CHART THAT LISTS ALL THE PRECINCTS AND THE COMMISSIONERS FOR YOU.
WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE THAT BY I'M GOOD WITH DUE DATES.
I WOULD THINK JUST GIVE YOURSELF ABOUT SEVEN DAYS TO DO THAT.
ANYBODY ELSE? UM, MARIE, CAN YOU SORT OF GIVE US SOME POINTERS ON SOME DO'S AND DON'TS BECAUSE I THINK WE NEED TO OUTLINE THIS BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, TO JUST KIND OF HAVE THAT CRITERIA AND OUR THOUGHTS BEFORE WE EVEN PROCEED.
UM, MARIE, UM, LET ME JUST GO BACK, UH, ONE STEP SO FAR, IDENTIFY THE COMMISSIONERS WITH THE, UM, PRECINCTS.
I THINK WE HAVE A LIST ALREADY.
THAT'S BEEN COMPILED FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, CHRIS MAY HAVE THAT.
SHE CAN GO AHEAD AND SEND OUT TO THE BOARD MEMBERS JUST AS BINDER OF THE PRECINCTS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO.
AND SO THAT MAY NOT TO BE A PROJECT JEAN NEED TO TAKE ON BECAUSE I THINK IT'S ALREADY DONE.
AND, UM, SO FAR AS DO'S AND DON'TS, UM, OF COURSE, UM, YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, MS. BELL BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE TALKING ABOUT, WHEN WE STOPPED TALKING ABOUT SPLITTING PRECINCTS OR RE PRECINCT IN A PRECINCT, WE HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND, UM, NATURAL BOUNDARIES THAT, UM, WOULD DETERMINE WHERE, HOW YOU CAN ACTUALLY SPLIT A PRECINCT, BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, WE CAN'T SPLIT A PRECINCT STRAIGHT DOWN A PERSON'S HOUSE.
WE HAVE TO USE SOME NATURAL BOUNDARIES LIKE A LAKE OR, UM, UH, SOME ROAD RIVER.
WE HAVE TO USE SOMETHING TO IDENTIFY WHERE TO DRAW THE LINES BECAUSE DOWN HALF OF THE PRECINCT TO SAY, THIS IS WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE.
SO THAT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME MANEUVERING AND
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YOU ARE CORRECT.IAN IS, HAS BEEN, UM, A RESOURCE THAT WE'VE USED OVER THE YEARS.
I'M SURE HE WILL BE WILLING TO WORK WITH US TO HELP IDENTIFY THOSE NATURAL BOUNDARIES THAT WE CAN USE TO HELP, UM, RESIZE THESE LOCATION.
UM, ONE THING THAT WE ALSO NEED TO CONSIDER IS THE TIMEFRAME THAT YOU MENTIONED.
UM, IF WE TRY TO DO THIS WITHOUT HAVING A PLACE TO MOVE THESE PRECINCTS TO THE NEW, NEWLY DEVELOPED PRECINCTS TO, CAN WE NOT GOING TO BE RESOLVING ANY OF OUR ISSUES OF WHAT THE BAR ISSUES WILL STILL BE THE SAME? I UNDERSTAND THAT ONE OF THE GOAL IS TO MINIMIZE THE, UM, THE NUMBER OF VOTERS WHO ARE, UM, POINTING TO THESE PRECINCT SO THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GET THERE, BE ABLE TO FIND, YOU KNOW, DECENT TALKING AND ACCESS THE BUILDING AND GET OUT WITHIN A REASONABLE TIMEFRAME WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT, BUT ANY LONG PERIOD OF TIME, WHICH I THINK IS EVERYBODY'S GOAL.
YOU KNOW, NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO THE PRECINCT ON ELECTION DAY AND STAND IN LINE TWO AND THREE HOURS BECAUSE WE GOT 3000 PEOPLE REPORTING TO FACILITY.
AND THAT HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE IN OUR COUNTY.
AND I KNOW I'M NOT SURE HOW TO RESOLVE THAT ISSUE.
THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF IS IF WE CAN SOLICIT, LET OUR LEGISLATORS TO MAYBE CHANGE THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF, UM, VOTERS, THAT'S ACCEPTABLE IN A PRECINCT FROM MAYBE THE 1500 TO 2,500 OR MAYBE EVEN 3000, UM, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE FACILITIES TO HOUSE THEM.
AND THAT'S BEEN A CHALLENGE RIGHT NOW.
WE JUST LEARNED TODAY THAT WE WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO USE A PRECINCT ON HILTON HEAD LOCATION ON HILTON HEAD.
AND SO NOW WE ARE, AGAIN, LOOKING FOR SOMEPLACE ON HILTON THEN TO MOVE THESE VOTERS TO, AND NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO USE IT AGAIN.
THEN NOW THEY TOLD US NO, NOT, NOT, NO.
UM, WHAT, WHAT WAS THE SIZE OF THAT? WHAT WAS, I'M JUST CURIOUS, WHAT WAS THE SIZE OF THAT PARTICULAR PRECINCT? UM, I'LL TELL YOU IN A SECOND, I'LL LOOK IT UP WHILE YOU OKAY.
I APOLOGIZE IF I DO THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, THE IDEA IDENTITY AND I DON'T YEAH.
IT'S THIS HELPS THEM HAVE 10 AND THEY HAVE 1800 PEOPLE IN THERE.
WE GOT TO MOVE THE WHOLE PRISON.
AND THAT NUMBER IS ONLY, ONLY GOING TO GO UP.
I SUSPECT AS THE, AS THE VOTING AGE POPULATION GOES UP.
WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN END OF THE ISLAND.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S MAYBE ONE OF THE FEW AREAS THAT STILL HAVE SOME DEVELOPMENT ON CAPABILITIES.
SO, UM, YEAH, THE POSSIBILITY OF IT INCREASING FROM 18 TO 20 IS, IS, IS VERY POSSIBLE.
SO, UM, MR. CLIFFORD, WHO IS THE BOARD MEMBER THAT'S ASSIGNED TO THIS PRECINCT IS AWARE OF THIS AND HE IS ALREADY LOOKING FOR A NEW FACILITY NOW.
SO, AND WE, WE WILL NEED TO IDENTIFY SOME PLACE FOR THESE PEOPLE TO GO BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE THERE IN THE UPCOMING, UM, JUNE PRIMARIES.
SO, UM, ANYWAY, UM, UM, WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO IS PUT OURSELVES IN A, IN A, IN A BOX OR IN A MINE WHERE WE SET GOALS THAT WE CAN'T ACHIEVE, BECAUSE WHATEVER WE DO, THAT'S INVOLVING OUR VOTERS.
WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM AMPLE TIME TO KNOW WHERE THEY DO POLLING PLACES AND FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT THEY KNOW WHERE THEIR NEW POLLING PLACES.
AND SO RIGHT BEFORE A MAJOR ELECTION, I ALWAYS ADVISE IF WE DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE A PRECINCT OR LOCATION LAST NIGHT, NOW WE KNOW OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS BECAUSE OF COLBERT, WE WERE CHANGING INCREASINGS TWO WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION PEOPLE WERE TURNING US DOWN AFTER THEY HAD SAID YES, AND THIS IS NOT IDEAL FOR ANY OF US.
SO, UM, LET'S JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND
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AS WELL.WHEN WE START DECIDING ON IF WE'RE TRYING TO DO THIS BEFORE THE NOVEMBER ELECTION OR THE JUNE PRIMARIES, OR AT LEAST FOR SURE, HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET ALL OF THIS DONE BEFORE THE 20, 24 ELECTION.
BUT, UM, THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION WILL END SOMETIME IN MAY.
AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT TIME IS.
IT'S USED TO LIKE, I THINK AROUND THE SECOND WEEK IN MAY.
UM, BUT WE WOULD NEED TO GET WHATEVER WE ARE DOING TO THEM IF WE WANT TO MAKE THIS EFFECTIVE BEFORE THE, UM, NOVEMBER ELECTION.
SO LET ME, LET ME, IF I COULD GO BACK TO THE, UH, TO THE TWO CATEGORIES THEY 18, UH, PRECINCTS IN 14 PRECINCTS.
UM, I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, THANK YOU.
THEY, UM, SO WE HAVE ONE THIRD OF OUR PRECINCTS, NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW AT THE MOMENT, RIGHT? YES.
HAVING SAID THAT AND MARRYING THAT TO, TO SOMETHING THAT WAS COVERED AT THE END, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS LAST OR MEETING MARIE, BUT IT WAS, IT MIGHT'VE BEEN THE LAST ONE, NOT, NOT YESTERDAY, BUT THE ONE BEFORE THAT I'VE TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, DISPERSAL OF NEW, UH, CARDS, UH, REGISTRATION CARDS WHERE EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTY, WELL, YOU, YOU PUSH THAT UP AGAINST THESE 32 PRECINCTS, NOT TO MENTION.
I MEAN, THAT'S, WE KNOW THAT THAT HAS TO HAPPEN FOR 32 OF OUR PRECINCTS, ACCORDING TO THE LAW.
ANYWAY, AT THIS, AT THIS MOMENT, CARDS OR CARDS ARE GOING TO BE GOING OUT TO PEOPLE WHO MAY GET A SECOND ROUND OF CARDS.
I MEAN, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT ACTS AS A, AS A, AS A MAKE-UP CALL, UM, FOR THOSE THAT ARE EXCEEDING 8, 8, 15, 1500, I MEAN, IT JUST, IT'S A FACT OF THE FACT OF LIFE WE HAVE TO, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S 147,000 LAST TIME I CHECKED CARDS, IS THAT ACCURATE? WELL, I DIDN'T DO THE MATH APPROXIMATELY DON'T ANSWER THE DIFFERENCE.
BUT, UM, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MINUTE.
WE NECESSARILY HAVE TO SEND OUT CARDS WHEN THEY ARE DISTRICT CHANGES.
SO PEOPLE WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT THEIR DISTRICTS ARE, BUT DON'T NECESSARILY, WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO, WE ARE REQUIRED TO SEND OUT CARDS, EXCUSE ME, WHEN THERE IS A POLLING LOCATION CHANGE.
WELL, THAT'S ONE ANOTHER, WE NEED TO DO THAT UNLESS IT'S A TEMPORARY MOVE.
ALL WE NEED TO DO IS SEND SOME KIND OF NOTIFICATION.
BUT FOR THOSE PRECINCTS THAT ARE MOVING, UM, PERMANENTLY, WE DO, WE DO HAVE TO SEND OUT CARDS RIGHT NOW.
WE KNOW IF WE MOVE, UM, HILTON HEAD 10 TO WHERE THE PLACE IS, WE WILL HAVE TO SEND OUT CARDS TO THESE 1800 PEOPLE.
YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE NOT REQUIRED TO SEND OUT CARDS FROM PRECINCT CHANGES MOVING PERMANENTLY.
WHEN ARE YOU NOT REQUIRED TO SEND OUT CARDS? I SAID, WHEN, WHEN WE ARE MAKING DISTRICT CHANGES, DISTRICT DISTRICTS, WE JUST, DON'T DOING NOW MAKING A LOT OF DISTRICT CHANGES.
AND SOME PEOPLE ARE MOVING TO NEW DISTRICTS, BUT WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO SEND OUT CARDS.
IT WOULD BE A NICE THING TO DO.
AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU ALL CAN DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO STILL DO THAT, BUT, BUT THAT AGAIN WILL, UM, WE WILL, OF COURSE, WHAT'S GOING TO COST AND THAT'S OKAY.
AND THEN WHEN WE MAKE ALL THE PRECINCT CHANGES IN 2023, LET'S JUST SAY, YOU DECIDE TO MAKE THE LOCATION CHANGES.
UM, WE CAN SET OUT CARDS AGAIN, ACCURATE.
AND, UM, AND SOMETIMES WE DON'T NECESSARILY, IF THERE IS NOT A PRECINCT CHANGE, SAY SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT MOVING ONLY FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE MOVING.
SO IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE A CATCHER MAIL OUT ONLY FOR THE ONES THAT ARE AFFECTED BY IT.
AND LIKE IN THIS ONE, UM, UH, WE HAVE 47 PRECINCT INSTEAD OF 95 PRECINCTS.
IF YOU WANT TO JUST SEND OUT NEW CARDS TO THE 47 PRECINCTS WHERE THEY ARE DISTRICT CHANGES, THAT'S A POSSIBILITY THIS MAKES IT CORRECT.
SEND OUT CARDS ONLY TO THOSE AFFECTED.
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THE INFORMATION IS UPDATED AND THE SYSTEM THAT'S BEING WORKED ON RIGHT NOW, TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY UPDATED, ANYTHING ELSE FROM MARIE? UM, UNLESS YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT MAYBE THERE ARE OTHER QUESTIONS.WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR US TO START? UM, YOU SAID THAT ONCE WE GET THIS IN WRITING THE 18 PRECINCTS WITH REGISTERED VOTERS, UM, I GUESS WE NEED TO MEET WITH THAT OR THOSE COMMISSIONERS THAT FALL.
I WOULD THINK WE SHOULD START HERE.
THE 18, I WOULD START WITH 18 PRECINCTS.
AND YOU THINK MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, JIM.
YEAH, THAT SOUNDS, I THINK DEALING WITH THE RAW NUMBERS THAT WE SEE AS FOUR REGISTERED VOTERS, JUST ADD NUMBERS TO THOSE BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE OUT THERE.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE A VOTING AGE.
UH, THEY'RE GOING TO ENCUMBER THE, UH, SPOTS IN THE, IN EACH OF THE PRIESTS PRECINCTS.
UH, THEY GO FROM OBVIOUSLY FROM UNREGISTERED TO REGISTERED AND THAT, THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO JUST KEEP GOING UP, WHETHER IT'S ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THAT EQUATION OR THE SECOND OR THE LEFT HAND SIDE.
I WOULD THINK STARTING WITH THE 18 PRECINCTS, UH, SEEMS TO MAKES THE MOST SENSE TO ME, BEVERLY.
AND THEN I'LL TACKLE THAT ONE.
I'LL GO DOWN NATION THAT WE HAVE, AND I'LL DO THE 1800.
ANYBODY WANTS TO DO JUST FOR THE SAKE OF US BEING THOROUGH.
ANYBODY WANT TO DO THE 14 CASE? SOMEBODY ASKS LIKE, WHY WASN'T MINE CONSIDERED ANYBODY? I CAN, I CAN DO THAT.
I LOOK AT THAT AND I SAY, YEAH, I THINK I HAVE TWO OR TWO OR THREE, UH, CULPRITS.
SO I'LL, I'LL TRY TO TRY TO WORK WITH THEM.
SO WE WILL HAVE THAT AT THE NEXT MEETING WHEN WE MEET AND, UM, TO, TO IF POSSIBLE, UM, IS TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE PLACE OR LOCATION, UM, TO MOVE THEM TO, OH, WAIT, WELL, WHAT MARIE, WHEN YOU SAY THAT, THAT THE HILTON HAD 10 IS SAYING, NO, WE DON'T HAVE, NO, WE DON'T HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO AWAY.
WE NEVER SAW YOU PEOPLE, UM, OR WHATEVER.
UM, DOES THAT, IS THAT THE SAME AS, AS HILTON HAD 10 AND THOSE PEOPLE HAVE TO FIND SOMEPLACE TO VOTE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WITHIN REASONABLE DISTANCE AND, UH, WHICH IS ANOTHER THING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT, I SUSPECT TRAVEL TIME DISTANCES, BUT IN TERMS OF THE PRECINCTS THEMSELVES, UM, IT WOULD SEEM IF WE CAN'T FIND, UH, IF, IF WE COME UP AGAINST A PRECINCT THAT SAYS WE NO LONGER CAN OR WANT TO DO THIS, YOUR EFFORTS TO TRY TO FIND PLACES WHICH, WHICH IS, I UNDERSTAND 24, 7, 4 DEAL FOR YOU ALL.
UM, IT, IT, IT REALLY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THOSE PRECINCTS IS NOT EVEN GOING TO ONE OF THE 18 PRECINCTS WITH 1800 TO 22 TO 29, 95.
BUT THAT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT I CAN SEE THAT THE PRECINCT DOESN'T GO AWAY.
THIS, THIS, WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU? UH, PRECINCT THAT'S ESTABLISHED IN ALL STATE LAWS.
AND SO, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT WHEN WE FIND, WHEN WE TAKE IT BACK TO THE, TO THE LEGISLATORS, TO AUTHORIZE APPROVAL, TO CHANGE THEM, WE NEED TO TELL THEM WHERE THOSE CREEKS, WHERE THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE VOTING, BECAUSE THAT'S ALSO INCORPORATED, UM, UH, IN THE LAWS IS THE POLLING LOCATION.
UM, HOW MANY, HOW MANY VOTING LOCATIONS ARE THERE IN HILTON HEAD 10 BEFORE THEY LEAVE, BEFORE THEY SAY NO.
HOW MANY PEOPLE, HOW MANY POLLING LOCATIONS? JUST THE ONE.
LET ME MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AT THE FACILITY IS SPANISH WELLS.
WELL, HILTON HEAD 10 IS THE ONLY PRECINCT.
I FORGET HOW MANY THAT IS, BUT IT'S IT IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE.
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AND IF YOU THINK THAT'S A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE, OH GOD.I TURNED TO BEVERLY DOOR AS THAT, AS THAT STATEMENT IS MADE.
BOY, PRECINCT NEW RIVER PRECINCT NUMBER THREE 20.
WELL, THERE'S, I MEAN, THEY'RE JUST BLUFF BLUFFED AND FORESEE.
I MEAN, THEY'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE AND YOU KNOW, W WE ALL UNDERSTAND, I THINK, WELL, WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS IF WE, IF, IF, IF ONE HAS BEEN AROUND ANY LENGTH OF TIME HAS BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THESE NUMBERS THAT GO UP DAY BY DAY, MONTH BY MONTH, YEAR BY YEAR, THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T FOLLOW ANY SORT OF ELECTION PATTERN.
AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, 3000, SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING AFFECTED, I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT, YOU KNOW, APPROXIMATE, UH, AND HOW, HOW WE'RE GOING TO FIND PLACES JUST BECAUSE WE NEED PLACES.
IT'S GOING TO BE SOME INTERESTING.
WELL, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT KIND OF TIMEFRAME WE, WE SET FOR THIS.
ALSO, OBVIOUSLY, OBVIOUSLY, I DON'T KNOW.
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE ALWAYS ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR POLLING PLACES.
WE UNDERSTAND GO RIDING ON THE WEEKENDS.
I HAVE STAFF EVERY TIME THEY GO RIDING ON THE WEEKEND, THEY GO TO AREA, ESPECIALLY THE BLUFFTON AREA TO SEE WHAT'S NEW THERE.
SO THAT MAYBE THAT'S A FACILITY WE CAN USE.
WE, WE ALWAYS KEEP THAT QUESTION IN THE BACK OF OUR HEADS, WHEN WE ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, TRYING TO FIND SOMEPLACE TO HOUSE OUR POLL, OUR PRECINCTS, TO SERVE AS A POLLING PLACE.
OH, YOU MENTIONED WHAT WAS THE NEW PRECINCT NUMBER THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED THREE 20, BUT YOU WANT THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS, RIGHT? THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS RIGHT NOW IS 29 95, NO, THREE 20 IS THE PRECINCT NUMBER 29 95 IS THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTER TO 9, 9, 5? NOT, NO, NOT ZERO.
TAKE ONE OF THOSE NINES OUT AND MOVE THE CAR.
THAT'S A TERRIBLE, OKAY, WELL, IT'S TOO CRAZY.
CAN EXPLAIN TO ME HOW SO THE, THE GOOD THING THAT THIS IS A GLIMMER OF, OF, OF GOOD NEWS WITH OUR NEW VOTING EQUIPMENT, WITH THE ABILITY TO SCAN THE ABILITY TO PROCESS VOTERS QUICKER, THE ABILITY TO USE MORE THAN ONE CHECK-IN STATION HELPS THE PROCESS MOVE ALONG QUICKER.
SO THAT'S BEEN, UM, FOR THE LAST TWO, THREE ELECTIONS, MAYBE I THINK NOW AT LEAST TWO, WE WERE ABLE TO SET UP MORE THAN ONE REGISTRATION TABLE, WHICH HELPS ALLEVIATE THE LINES.
AND THE TIME OF BUDDHA WOULD NEED TO SPAN AT THE PRECINCT.
I HAVE A QUESTION WITH ALL THESE NEW PRECINCTS THAT POP UP.
HE HAS, I UNDERSTAND THAT SOME OF THEM ARE JUST GOING TO BE A MATTER OF ADDING ANOTHER PRECINCT PRECINCT TO AN ALREADY EXISTING LOCATION, BUT IDEALLY THERE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW LOCATIONS.
DO WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE THE EQUAL BOOKS AND THE EQUIPMENT TOO FOR THAT? OR ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO BUY THOSE ONCE WE FIGURE OUT HOW MANY WE NEED? YES.
UM, WE MAY HAVE ONE OR TWO EXTRAS IN FRONT OF ME, PROBABLY SPEAK TO THAT BETTER THAN I CAN, BUT EVENTUALLY WE GOING TO NEED ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT.
UM, CAN THIS GROUP DECIDE, OKAY.
IF WE ARE ABLE TO DO THE PRELIMINARY THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO BASED ON INFLAMMATION THAT WE ALREADY, HOW OFTEN SHOULD WE TRY TO MEET WITH IAN? AND I WAS THINKING AFTER WE HAVE AN INITIAL, INITIAL MEETING WITH HIM, THEN WE WOULD HAVE SEVERAL MEETINGS WITHIN, TO WORK ON DESIGNATED PRECINCTS.
OR IS THAT SOMETHING YOUR STAFF DOES? MARIE,
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WE CAN GET THE PRELIMINARY INFORMATION FROM IAN, AND IF WE NEED, HE CAN COME TO THE COMMITTEE AND, AND MAYBE GO OVER HOW HE DID WHAT HE DID.I DON'T WANT TO PUT WORDS IN HIS MOUTH, BUT, UM, WE CAN PUT, YOU KNOW, BROACH THAT SUBJECT WITH HIM AND, AND SEE IF HE'S GOT TIME OR NOT WITH HIM, BUT THROUGH, UM, HIS DEPARTMENT HEAD AND SEE IF THEY WOULD HAVE TIME TO WORK ON THIS PROJECT FOR US.
SO WHAT IS THAT TIMEFRAME LET'S JUST SAY IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, IS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, OH, I CAN CALL HIM TODAY.
WELL, DEPENDS ON WHAT TIME WE GET OFF THE CALL OR WE ONLY HAVE ONE FOR THE MEETING TOO, BUT I'M DEFINITELY THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK.
IF I DON'T GET AHOLD OF HIM TODAY, UM, I WILL MAKE SURE WE PUT THE REQUEST IN.
I WAS THINKING THAT, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD HAVE A WEEK TO KIND OF PUT IT ON HIS CALENDAR AND THEN WE WOULD BE MEETING WITH HIM TWO WEEKS.
YOU THINK THAT'S, I DON'T WANT TO ASSUME.
UM, AGAIN, THAT'S ANOTHER DEPARTMENT, SO I CAN'T ASSUME WHAT ALREADY BEEN ASSIGNED TO HIM.
THEY'VE BEEN GREAT WORKING WITH US SO FAR, AND I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WILL CHANGE, BUT, UM, I'M SURE THEY HAVE TO SET PRIORITIES, RIGHT.
IT'S JUST A FRAME WITHIN WHICH YOU WORK.
IT'S NOT SAYING THAT WE WILL OR WILL, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO.
IT'S JUST WHAT WE PROJECT, AS WE WERE JUST TRY TO DO WITHIN WHAT, WHAT I CAN DO IS I CAN, UM, SEND THE REQUEST IN AND GET A TIMEFRAME FROM HIM AND GET BACK TO THE COMMITTEE AS TO WHEN HE THINKS THAT PROJECT COULD BE, UM, THREATS.
I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR ANOTHER DEPARTMENT, RIGHT? BEVERLY GETTING BEAR FOR JUST A SECOND TO, TO, UH, THE NOTE OR NOTIFICATION OF OUR FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, UH, THOSE THAT ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THE, AS, AS, AS, AS, UH, REGISTERED VOTING COUNTS, UH, SHOW, UM, DO, HOW DO WE WANT TO HANDLE THAT? CAUSE I THINK, I THINK, I THINK INFORMATION SHARED AT THIS POINT IS, IS VALUABLE FOR THEM.
AND, UH, AND US, I MEAN, JUST TO BE ABLE TO SAY, HEY, LET ME KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO.
OR, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M PLANNING TO GO TO THE MOON FOR THAT, FOR THAT, FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME, WE NEED TO FIND THAT OUR OWN PEOPLE, WHEN ARE THEY, WHEN, WHEN WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO BE PULLED IN, INTO MEETING, UH, WITH OUR, WITH OUR COMMITTEE AND ENN WHOMEVER OFF, OFF, UH, OFF THE STAFF, UH, IS DETERMINED TO BE THE APPROPRIATE NUMBER.
SO I JUST DO WE, DO WE GET TO OUR FOLKS QUICKLY? DO WE, WHAT DO WE DO? SO, BUT WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED SOMEBODY TO VOLUNTEER AGAIN.
WE'VE GOT OUR CHAIRPERSON IN JIM, YOU AND I ARE THE ONLY TWO COMMITTEE MEMBERS OTHER THAN THE CHAIR.
UM, I THINK MR. WEDGWORTH IS A COMMITTEE MEMBER, AS WELL AS ALLENE, SHE'S NOT HERE AND I'M SORT OF WRITING, I I'M DELIBERATELY WRITING ON THIS SHEET SO THAT I CAN JUST SHOOT IT OUT TO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T SHOW UP AND IT JUST KIND OF SERVES AS TO NOTES.
THAT'S GOING TO BE GOOD FOR ME MOVING ON.
AS WE REFERENCED, WHENEVER YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING TO HAVE IT THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE, GOOD MADAM CHAIR, DO YOU THINK MAYBE YOU COULD, UM, CONTACT THOSE, UH, COMMISSIONERS FROM SOUTH OF THE BROAD, SINCE MOST OF THOSE REALLY, REALLY LARGE PRECINCTS ARE DOWN THERE AND SORT OF, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF UPDATE THEM ON, UM, THIS INFORMATION THAT I VOLUNTEERED FOR, THE INFORMATION THAT KIM VOLUNTEERED FOR, LET'S GIVE OURSELVES A WEEK JAM.
AND THEN, AND WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU GUYS GOING TO DO WITH THAT INFORMATION? ARE YOU JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH COMMISSIONERS ARE AFFECTED BY THOSE OR ANY LOCATIONS THAT ARE THERE? YEAH.
AND MARIA SAID THAT SHE HAS A COMPILED LIST OF WHAT COMMISSIONERS WOULD FALL WITHIN THIS CATEGORY, 18 PRECINCTS.
AND WHAT COMMISSIONERS WOULD FALL WITHIN THE 14 PRECINCT? EXCUSE ME.
I HAVE A LIST OF BOARD MEMBERS, UM, THE PRECINCTS THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO BOARD MEMBERS.
SO LIST OF, SO IF YOU WILL GET THAT, IT'S MATCHED
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THOSE WITH, UH, THE, UM, INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE.AND BEVERLY CHRIS SENT THAT TO US.
COMMISSIONERS, UM, LISTED, UM, INFORMATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN A THIRD BULLET RATHER THAN THAT'S OKAY.
WE KNOW, WE KNOW YOU HAVE THIS RIGHT.
I'M JUST PUTTING IT DOWN HERE.
CAUSE I'M NOT GOING TO TRY TO GO BACK AND GET ANYTHING FROM THIS MEETING.
I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THE FLOW OF THE MEETING.
SO, SO CHRIS HAS ALREADY SENT THAT SO WHAT I WILL DO MISS BEVERLY IS GO AHEAD AND, UM, PUT THE NUMBERS, THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS, UM, WITH THE PRIESTS, WITH THE BOARD MEMBERS AND THE PRECINCTS IN A SEPARATE TABLE.
AND THEN, UM, SINCE WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHEN IAN IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO MEET WITH US WHEN HE MEETS WITH US, SO WE WILL HAVE THAT INFORMATION.
SO HE WILL KNOW, AND THE COMMISSIONERS WILL KNOW OUT OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO YOU AS A COMMISSIONER, WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO START? WHICH PRECINCT DO YOU THINK YOU CAN MOVE THEM METRICS A LITTLE BIT ON? UM, DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD JUST LET THEM DECIDE OR SHOULD THAT BE A COMMITTEE DECISION? I THINK IT'S A COMMITTEE DECISION WITH A RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD.
CAN YOU ADD ONE MORE BULLET ABOUT TALKING TO THE LEGISLATORS ABOUT MAYBE CHANGING THAT 1500, UM, UM, REQUIREMENT AS IS WHERE THE LAW IS? BECAUSE THAT'S A PART OF THE LAW.
ANYTIME WE GO OUTSIDE THAT WE COULD BE VIOLATED OR WE ALL VIOLATING, BUT IT'S OKAY.
MAY CONSIDER ASKING LEGISLATORS TO CHANGE THE LAWS GOVERNING MAXIMUM NUMBER OF BROKERS.
SO DO WE WANT TO TAKE OFF MAY OR JUST CONSIDER, OR JUST ASK, I SAY, ASK THIS NEED.
IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT JUST BUFORD COUNTY THAT EXPERIENCING THIS ISSUE IT'S BEING EXPERIENCED ACROSS THE STATE.
UM, MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING WE ADD TO THE AGENDA WHEN WE MEET WITH THE, WHEN WE HAVE THE CONVERSATION WITH THE LEGISLATORS, RIGHT, RIGHT.
AT THIS SCARE MEETING, MAYBE WE COULD DO IT AT AIR MEETING AND, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD HAVE THE SUPPORT OF OTHER COLLEAGUES.
THAT'S NOT, UH, THAT, THAT WOULDN'T BE AT THE SCARE ON LESS SKILL SET AS A PRIORITY.
WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE WANTED TO DO WAS TO HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH THE LEGISLATORS.
CAROLINE DID TALK TO SHANNON, ERICSSON, AND SHANNON ERICKSON SAID, SHE'D BE HAPPY TO GET TOGETHER SOME OF THE LEGISLATORS AND TALK TO US, BUT THEY WANTED AN AGENDA BEFOREHAND.
SO, AND SHE WAS SAYING WE COULD MEET IN MAYBE THREE WEEKS AFTER ALL OF THE ELECTORAL BILLS HIT THE FLOOR.
UM, AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD ASK WITHIN THAT COMMITTEE TO ADD IT TO THE AGENDA, TO DISCUSS WITH THEM.
SO DISCUSS WITH LEGISLATORS, WHAT THE CHAIN, THE 1500 MAXIMUM, UM, REGISTERED VOTER PER PRECINCT.
ISN'T THAT WHAT WE SHE'S GOT IT UP THERE ALREADY, BUT YEAH, THIS IS GOING TO BE AN AGENDA ITEM THAT NEEDS TO GO TO BERNADETTE RECOMMENDED MAXIMUM OR PRE SPANKED DURING THE UPCOMING
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WHAT'S THE DATE OF THAT MEETING? UM, GENE, THE DATE HAS NOT BEEN SENT YET.UM, THE DATE HAS NOT BEEN SET.
UM, THERE'S JUST A TIMEFRAME SHANNON SAID WITHIN MAYBE IN THREE WEEKS OR SO GIVE OR TAKE.
SO THAT'S KIND OF THE TIMEFRAME WE'RE WORKING WITH RIGHT NOW.
I CANNOT INTERRUPT AT MY SENTENCE.
JUST A, JUST A TECHNICAL POINT.
ART, IS THERE A TIME LIMIT ON THIS CALL? UM, NO, BUT I LIKE TO ALWAYS TRY TO END WITHIN AN HOUR.
WELL, NO, I ONLY RAISE IT IN CASE I'M BEVERLY I WAS THE ONLY REASON IT MAKES SURE THAT THERE IS, WE HAVE WE ONLY HAVE TO LIVE FOR ONE HOUR, ONE HOUR.
I THINK WE'VE PRETTY MUCH COVERED EVERYTHING ON THE AGENDA AND MARIE IS GOING TO NOTIFY US WHEN IN CAN, UM, CAN MEET WITH US.
AND I WILL GIVE MARIE PROBABLY A COUPLE OF DAYS THAT I WILL BE OUT OF TOWN.
I KNOW ONE IS THE 26 THAT'S, UH, UM, UM, THE 17TH AND THE 26 ARE TWO DATES THAT I CANNOT MEET.
BUT, UM, ANYWAY, WE WILL ALL AGREE.
WE WILL MAKE IT A TIME THAT WE HAVE CONSENSUS ON THIS IS CONVENIENT FOR THE COMMITTEE.
I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR PARTICIPATING.
UM, IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED TO ADD TO OUR NOTES, UM, LET ME KNOW.
SO, UM, WE WILL BE NOTIFYING YOU AS TO WHEN THE NEXT MEETING IS GOING TO BE.
WE WILL BE SCHEDULING THAT AROUND WHEN MARIE AND IAN CAN MEET WITH US.
AND AFTER WE'VE HAD ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH OTHER COMMISSIONERS, THE NOTES FROM DAY'S MEETING.
SO AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR COMING AND, UM, I KINDA LIKED THE ZOOM PLATFORM, UM, PERHAPS NEXT TIME.
I KNOW HOW TO SHARE THE SCREEN, YOU KNOW, USING THIS PLATFORM.
AND I THINK IT'S AN EXCELLENT WAY TO TAKE NOTES AND THAT WE'RE ALL IN A CONSENSUS AS TO AN AGREEMENT AS TO WHAT IS SAID AGAIN.