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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.
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I'm going to take my sister from America.
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And she's going to be a public or we just can't.
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This is one nation.
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I'm going to go out and get this little liberty and justice for all.
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Then the artsy ruler will fall.
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Oh, I'm trying to get it.
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Pass the air machine down.
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Here.
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Pass the fire.
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Here.
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I was like, is that a pier?
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I was like, no, it didn't.
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Pass the fire.
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Here.
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Pass the air machine down.
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And it has a man's feel prior.
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here. Here. Thank you. We are going to go directly to new business for which we have
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one item,
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202670, approval of the June 9, 2026 and election results. May we have a motion
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to place this on the floor?
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So in a second, for
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two city work, Darcy, you were like, she's right.
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I'm ready.
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So yes, so our election results are in my, I just want to be really appreciative of everyone that came out yesterday to vote.
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It was probably, well, I believe it's my highest since I've been here.
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of voter turnout, 47% of voters turned out the selection.
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We had 2,699 state ballots cast with 5,784 registered voters.
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I do want to note that the registered voters didn't go down this year, and the reason
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being is because voters were purged from our voter centralized voter registration system this
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be due to the fact that if you're not right, if you have not participated in two general
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elections, then your the Secretary of State's office removes you from the roles and put you
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as an inactive. If you come back you're still in there, but if you don't, you're pulled from
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them and they just did a big update on that, because we just went to a new system, they updated
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this system, to have us better online for petitions and things like that.
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You're welcome.
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And it's a great, like, I can't say enough about elections.
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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.
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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.
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And then you're ready for that.
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Can I ask a follow-up question?
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I'm pleased with your chair.
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If people are removed from the voting file, and I believe, because I voted.
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You walk up and it's printed.
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So if you are inactive, how would a person know to react to video?
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Do you just go over to the registration?
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They do over to the registration table, and we'd be able to take care of you there.
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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.
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We have taken over doing the registration piece as the clerks office outside of the guardrail.
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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.
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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.
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There's no reason not to.
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There's no reason not to.
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There's no reason not to.
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Yes or yes.
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Thank you, Tritot.
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There was some.
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The question posted online, not necessarily from someone from Bath.
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And then there was all sorts of wild speculation and stuff.
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So I would like a proper answer to the question.
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Apparently a few people were asked to show IV.
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And are you aware of why someone would be, why someone would be asked?
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That is funny, you say that, because I just finished reading that article before I came up here, I had seen it.
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The reason why somebody's going to be asked for ID typically is when you register, especially when you do it,
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when you're not voting, sorry, my words are going to be all over the place tonight.
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When you do it at DMV, you go to renew your address or you move or you update anything
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on your DMV, your driver's license.
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What's going to happen is they're going to ask you if you want to change this for voting.
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We get notified about that automatically.
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It's called automatic voter registration.
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And what happens with that is if your license hasn't tied back to that address yet, we can't verify it here.
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So a lot of times what happens is you change your address.
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They send you a notification, but it hasn't updated in their system.
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All the systems don't all talk together at the same time.
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So sometimes it takes a little bit of time.
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What we have to do in our office is we have to send out what's called a V-Rain.
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It's a voter registration acknowledgement.
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And what you have to do when you receive that is let us know that you received it, either by coming into the office
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and showing proof of ID or registration or, I mean, residence.
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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,
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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.
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ID, but maybe your address is not the same on there.
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Maybe it's a PO box on your license.
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That always tends to be a problem because we can't take PO boxes
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as residents' addresses when we're checking people in.
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If you need any more clarification, better than that.
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Not to do.
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I can get a forehead.
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I just have one comment about elections.
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The United States Constitution 1776, the main Constitution 1820, the Vassity Charter 1847 and
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U.S.C. titled 52-1965, those are just a few of the documents that bring us as members
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of city council to our shortest meeting of the year where we perform our most important duty.
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The certification of the results tabulated by the city clerk of elections conducted in math.
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Last week, we observed the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II.
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In 1944, there were 296,400 voters in Maine.
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Today, there roughly 965,000 loud opinionated, duly registered voters, all competing to share
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their own view of the state and the nation.
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So, each of us gets to decide that roughly 50% of them are wrong all the time.
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We get to yell in our queue because of the 4,543 words of U.S. Constitution, the battles
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that were fought in its defense against fascism and authoritarian regimes for the 80 years
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ago, in the decades since and today.
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I can't think of a more important reason to vote, and there's no better reason to think
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than that to thank our student clerk, her staff, and all the volunteers.
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Can you do it without them?
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Uh, any additional council comment?
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Any public comment?
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See you then.
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Councillor Emersono?
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Councillor Marks.
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Yes.
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Councillor Gisetti?
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Yes.
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Councillor Gisetti?
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Yes.
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Councillor Lynn?
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Yes.
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Translate means you'll prior. Yes.
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I'm sure that. Yes. Thank you.
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That is the last item when we agenda.
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We have a motion to adjourn. Motion.
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Second.
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We're done.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.