1 00:01:33,390 --> 00:01:44,390 Welcome to the Wednesday, June 10, 2026, post election day special edition of the best day council. Please join the council and stand as you are able for the pledge. 2 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,920 I'm going to take my sister from America. 3 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:53,880 And she's going to be a public or we just can't. 4 00:01:54,460 --> 00:01:55,160 This is one nation. 5 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,980 I'm going to go out and get this little liberty and justice for all. 6 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,160 Then the artsy ruler will fall. 7 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,160 Oh, I'm trying to get it. 8 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:09,560 Pass the air machine down. 9 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:10,360 Here. 10 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:10,960 Pass the fire. 11 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:11,360 Here. 12 00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:12,940 I was like, is that a pier? 13 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:14,220 I was like, no, it didn't. 14 00:02:15,060 --> 00:02:15,740 Pass the fire. 15 00:02:15,940 --> 00:02:16,140 Here. 16 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,460 Pass the air machine down. 17 00:02:19,580 --> 00:02:22,020 And it has a man's feel prior. 18 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:30,560 here. Here. Thank you. We are going to go directly to new business for which we have 19 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:32,260 one item, 20 00:02:34,460 --> 00:02:41,140 202670, approval of the June 9, 2026 and election results. May we have a motion 21 00:02:41,140 --> 00:02:42,540 to place this on the floor? 22 00:02:42,540 --> 00:02:44,420 So in a second, for 23 00:02:47,070 --> 00:02:50,390 two city work, Darcy, you were like, she's right. 24 00:02:51,810 --> 00:02:52,190 I'm ready. 25 00:02:53,030 --> 00:03:04,630 So yes, so our election results are in my, I just want to be really appreciative of everyone that came out yesterday to vote. 26 00:03:05,210 --> 00:03:09,490 It was probably, well, I believe it's my highest since I've been here. 27 00:03:09,490 --> 00:03:14,710 of voter turnout, 47% of voters turned out the selection. 28 00:03:16,250 --> 00:03:25,370 We had 2,699 state ballots cast with 5,784 registered voters. 29 00:03:25,710 --> 00:03:30,790 I do want to note that the registered voters didn't go down this year, and the reason 30 00:03:30,790 --> 00:03:36,530 being is because voters were purged from our voter centralized voter registration system this 31 00:03:36,530 --> 00:03:41,630 be due to the fact that if you're not right, if you have not participated in two general 32 00:03:41,630 --> 00:03:47,390 elections, then your the Secretary of State's office removes you from the roles and put you 33 00:03:47,390 --> 00:03:53,230 as an inactive. If you come back you're still in there, but if you don't, you're pulled from 34 00:03:53,230 --> 00:03:58,370 them and they just did a big update on that, because we just went to a new system, they updated 35 00:03:58,370 --> 00:04:04,130 this system, to have us better online for petitions and things like that. 36 00:04:07,070 --> 00:04:07,570 You're welcome. 37 00:04:07,570 --> 00:04:11,930 And it's a great, like, I can't say enough about elections. 38 00:04:12,390 --> 00:04:19,790 I know, like, today, if it's a little stressful and you're going around and you never know what the issue is going to be or anything like that. 39 00:04:20,050 --> 00:04:33,290 But for an extrovert, like me, I'm really, I know that you love it, you love the hair, and I like to be in out there, and you don't come down off of that high till about 20 minutes you go. 40 00:04:34,930 --> 00:04:36,290 And then you're ready for that. 41 00:04:38,110 --> 00:04:39,970 Can I ask a follow-up question? 42 00:04:40,250 --> 00:04:41,110 I'm pleased with your chair. 43 00:04:41,810 --> 00:04:47,310 If people are removed from the voting file, and I believe, because I voted. 44 00:04:48,230 --> 00:04:49,550 You walk up and it's printed. 45 00:04:50,230 --> 00:04:54,530 So if you are inactive, how would a person know to react to video? 46 00:04:54,910 --> 00:04:57,430 Do you just go over to the registration? 47 00:04:57,830 --> 00:05:01,330 They do over to the registration table, and we'd be able to take care of you there. 48 00:05:01,330 --> 00:05:11,110 So that's it without hassle, you still are crazy, just exactly, exactly, you come over, if you've already been a registered voter in Maine, we can see that. 49 00:05:11,830 --> 00:05:17,630 We have taken over doing the registration piece as the clerks office outside of the guardrail. 50 00:05:17,910 --> 00:05:26,490 So we're very knowledgeable about what the things that you need and what you have and how this how to let people know that. 51 00:05:26,490 --> 00:05:31,410 I just want to make sure people knew that if they were haven't done it for a while there's no reason not to come. 52 00:05:31,410 --> 00:05:33,330 There's no reason not to. 53 00:05:33,410 --> 00:05:33,530 There's no reason not to. 54 00:05:33,530 --> 00:05:34,670 There's no reason not to. 55 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:37,130 Yes or yes. 56 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:38,250 Thank you, Tritot. 57 00:05:39,770 --> 00:05:40,650 There was some. 58 00:05:41,410 --> 00:05:45,430 The question posted online, not necessarily from someone from Bath. 59 00:05:46,450 --> 00:05:49,070 And then there was all sorts of wild speculation and stuff. 60 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:52,710 So I would like a proper answer to the question. 61 00:05:53,210 --> 00:05:55,770 Apparently a few people were asked to show IV. 62 00:05:56,790 --> 00:06:01,890 And are you aware of why someone would be, why someone would be asked? 63 00:06:02,830 --> 00:06:07,950 That is funny, you say that, because I just finished reading that article before I came up here, I had seen it. 64 00:06:08,790 --> 00:06:15,010 The reason why somebody's going to be asked for ID typically is when you register, especially when you do it, 65 00:06:15,490 --> 00:06:19,890 when you're not voting, sorry, my words are going to be all over the place tonight. 66 00:06:19,890 --> 00:06:27,150 When you do it at DMV, you go to renew your address or you move or you update anything 67 00:06:27,150 --> 00:06:30,970 on your DMV, your driver's license. 68 00:06:31,510 --> 00:06:36,750 What's going to happen is they're going to ask you if you want to change this for voting. 69 00:06:37,410 --> 00:06:41,050 We get notified about that automatically. 70 00:06:41,190 --> 00:06:43,230 It's called automatic voter registration. 71 00:06:43,230 --> 00:06:53,310 And what happens with that is if your license hasn't tied back to that address yet, we can't verify it here. 72 00:06:54,470 --> 00:06:57,790 So a lot of times what happens is you change your address. 73 00:06:57,950 --> 00:07:01,450 They send you a notification, but it hasn't updated in their system. 74 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:05,030 All the systems don't all talk together at the same time. 75 00:07:05,110 --> 00:07:06,910 So sometimes it takes a little bit of time. 76 00:07:06,910 --> 00:07:12,090 What we have to do in our office is we have to send out what's called a V-Rain. 77 00:07:12,370 --> 00:07:14,710 It's a voter registration acknowledgement. 78 00:07:15,850 --> 00:07:22,770 And what you have to do when you receive that is let us know that you received it, either by coming into the office 79 00:07:22,770 --> 00:07:28,450 and showing proof of ID or registration or, I mean, residence. 80 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:47,500 The idea of residents, then what you can do is, it wouldn't be marked that way. And that's what they're doing. That's why they were asked for IDs, because there was just a couple people in that book that's got a wide extra their name, and it's because in some situations, 81 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:59,980 your identification wasn't sent in. And a lot of times what can happen is, your identification sent in, because it's connected with your right, with your right. 82 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,880 ID, but maybe your address is not the same on there. 83 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,980 Maybe it's a PO box on your license. 84 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,000 That always tends to be a problem because we can't take PO boxes 85 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,860 as residents' addresses when we're checking people in. 86 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,760 If you need any more clarification, better than that. 87 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:20,460 Not to do. 88 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:22,500 I can get a forehead. 89 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,980 I just have one comment about elections. 90 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:39,920 The United States Constitution 1776, the main Constitution 1820, the Vassity Charter 1847 and 91 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:48,160 U.S.C. titled 52-1965, those are just a few of the documents that bring us as members 92 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:54,940 of city council to our shortest meeting of the year where we perform our most important duty. 93 00:08:54,940 --> 00:09:01,180 The certification of the results tabulated by the city clerk of elections conducted in math. 94 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:11,320 Last week, we observed the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II. 95 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:19,420 In 1944, there were 296,400 voters in Maine. 96 00:09:19,420 --> 00:09:31,500 Today, there roughly 965,000 loud opinionated, duly registered voters, all competing to share 97 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:34,180 their own view of the state and the nation. 98 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:42,000 So, each of us gets to decide that roughly 50% of them are wrong all the time. 99 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:51,960 We get to yell in our queue because of the 4,543 words of U.S. Constitution, the battles 100 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,140 that were fought in its defense against fascism and authoritarian regimes for the 80 years 101 00:09:57,140 --> 00:10:00,780 ago, in the decades since and today. 102 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:08,720 I can't think of a more important reason to vote, and there's no better reason to think 103 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:13,300 than that to thank our student clerk, her staff, and all the volunteers. 104 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,300 Can you do it without them? 105 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,720 Uh, any additional council comment? 106 00:10:23,940 --> 00:10:24,940 Any public comment? 107 00:10:28,060 --> 00:10:28,820 See you then. 108 00:10:32,470 --> 00:10:33,410 Councillor Emersono? 109 00:10:34,410 --> 00:10:35,130 Councillor Marks. 110 00:10:35,170 --> 00:10:35,470 Yes. 111 00:10:35,710 --> 00:10:36,370 Councillor Gisetti? 112 00:10:36,650 --> 00:10:37,010 Yes. 113 00:10:37,270 --> 00:10:37,770 Councillor Gisetti? 114 00:10:37,990 --> 00:10:38,350 Yes. 115 00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:39,730 Councillor Lynn? 116 00:10:42,110 --> 00:10:42,470 Yes. 117 00:10:42,470 --> 00:10:44,790 Translate means you'll prior. Yes. 118 00:10:44,790 --> 00:10:46,470 I'm sure that. Yes. Thank you. 119 00:10:47,330 --> 00:10:49,150 That is the last item when we agenda. 120 00:10:49,750 --> 00:10:51,410 We have a motion to adjourn. Motion. 121 00:10:51,910 --> 00:10:52,250 Second. 122 00:10:56,910 --> 00:10:57,650 We're done. 123 00:10:58,650 --> 00:10:59,050 Thank you. 124 00:10:59,390 --> 00:11:01,390 Thank you.