[0:00] We will
[0:01] call the Cache County Council Board of
[0:04] Canvassers meeting to order.
[0:06] Um I Sandy's
[0:09] we will note it that
[0:11] Council Chair Sandy Goodlander is absent
[0:14] as well as Council member David
[0:17] Erickson.
[0:18] Um
[0:20] opening remarks. I will go ahead and
[0:22] share some opening remarks. Um
[0:24] my my opening remarks are brief. I am
[0:27] particularly thankful that we live in a
[0:31] a nation that has free and fair
[0:33] elections and that we
[0:36] live in a democratic republic and that
[0:38] we can participate in this process. And
[0:40] I would like to express my gratitude to
[0:42] staff for all that they do to keep us
[0:44] compliant with the laws that are
[0:46] established by our state and thank you
[0:49] very much. We appreciate all that you do
[0:51] for for us in representing Cache County.
[0:54] So thank you. Um on we will also uh
[0:57] do the pledge of allegiance. So please
[0:58] stand.
[1:03] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
[1:06] United States of America and to the
[1:09] republic for which it stands, one nation
[1:13] under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[1:17] justice for all.
[1:20] » Okay.
[1:22] Um
[1:23] » [clears throat]
[1:25] » Do we need to pass this agenda or motion
[1:29] to pass this agenda? Approve this
[1:30] agenda.
[1:31] Okay.
[1:32] » Second.
[1:32] » Any discussion on the
[1:34] Okay. All those in favor say I.
[1:35] » I. I.
[1:37] » I'm going to go ahead and turn the time
[1:38] over to our county clerk
[1:40] to go ahead and present the election
[1:43] results for the Republican primary.
[1:53] » Twice every year I got to come up here
[1:54] and
[1:57] Uh thank you for having me. My name's
[1:58] Bryson Baughman. I am the county clerk.
[2:00] Today I'm here to present um the general
[2:02] canvas for the
[2:04] primary canvas of the 2026 Republican
[2:06] primary.
[2:07] Um you have a packet in front of you
[2:10] um that is our uh
[2:12] blank
[2:13] stat sheet, our audit information, and
[2:16] our results.
[2:17] We do not have a precinct by precinct
[2:19] view for you. You can request it by me,
[2:21] but we also have it on our website.
[2:24] I assume you guys don't want 90 pages of
[2:26] reading. So,
[2:28] or 90 pages worth of trees getting cut
[2:30] down.
[2:31] So,
[2:32] we had [clears throat] a
[2:33] successful audit. We audited 200 ballots
[2:36] um out of
[2:38] um oh jeez, I have the stat page. I
[2:40] should just read ahead. 14,636
[2:43] that were
[2:44] uh ballots that were counted. Um our
[2:47] audit team consisted of uh Mark Hurd,
[2:51] our county auditor uh Matt Funk, and
[2:55] staff Kyla Doyle, Michelle Stenger,
[2:57] Jennifer Zang, and then uh Chad
[2:59] Clements, and Talon Bigelow
[3:01] were there. Um everything went
[3:03] swimmingly.
[3:04] Um we even made Mark and Matt
[3:08] uh audit a batch that they didn't need
[3:10] to. That's how good we did.
[3:11] » [laughter]
[3:13] » Um
[3:15] any questions about the audit?
[3:18] Okay, sweet. We'll move on
[3:20] um to our stats. So, we had a 36.2%
[3:25] turnout. Um that is out of 40,465
[3:29] active Republican voters. So, only
[3:32] registered Republicans received
[3:33] » Okay.
[3:34] » Um 14,636
[3:37] ballots were counted. 14,427
[3:40] of those were mailed in.
[3:41] Um we had 43 vote in person. We changed
[3:44] our hours thinking more people would
[3:46] show up,
[3:48] and we got less. So, our hours were from
[3:51] noon to 6:00 p.m. thinking we can get
[3:52] people coming off after
[3:54] work and
[3:55] » So,
[3:56] that's in-person early voting?
[3:58] » And what were the hours day of?
[3:59] » Uh day of was 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
[4:02] » So, the normal, okay.
[4:03] » And we have 147 in-person election day
[4:06] voters.
[4:08] If you guys want to know, it's about $70
[4:09] a voter.
[4:11] » Yeah, [laughter]
[4:12] just to pay this staff sitting there.
[4:13] » Staff there, yeah.
[4:14] » Yeah,
[4:14] » [clears throat]
[4:14] » Okay.
[4:15] » So, did you ever um
[4:17] um
[4:18] What was I going to ask?
[4:20] Um do you have a record of how many
[4:22] people mailed their ballots back?
[4:25] » Uh like undeliverables?
[4:27] » Or versus boxes?
[4:29] » Rather than drop boxes.
[4:31] » Um I don't have that on this sheet.
[4:34] But we have But we have that number.
[4:35] » Was it more than half?
[4:37] » Um no.
[4:39] » No, it's it's always about
[4:41] 75% of mail-in ballots come from drop
[4:44] boxes and then the others are from I was
[4:46] at 60?
[4:47] » Well, I think we're about 60/40 on this.
[4:49] » Yeah, 60/40 and usually the 40% usually
[4:52] comes from communities like Paradise,
[4:53] Cornish, Clarkston, Newton.
[4:56] Um they have drop boxes out there, but
[4:58] sometimes I mean, they're just used to
[4:59] putting in the mail.
[5:01] » Mhm.
[5:02] » Um it is state code requirement that
[5:04] every city does have a drop box, so
[5:06] every city and town does have a drop box
[5:08] available to them. So, from Cornish to
[5:10] Paradise, Wellsville to Lewiston, they
[5:12] got something.
[5:14] Um there was a five-year UOCAVA ballots
[5:17] counted. So, UOCAVA is uniform overseas.
[5:21] Um so, military.
[5:24] So
[5:25] » Say the number again.
[5:26] » Four uh f-
[5:27] Five.
[5:28] » Five.
[5:28] » Yeah, five. Um we
[5:30] » This page.
[5:31] » Oh, sorry.
[5:33] Um
[5:34] um 14 [clears throat] provisional
[5:35] ballots were counted.
[5:37] And we had zero emergency ballots. And
[5:39] the fun part, 14,636
[5:42] vote histories were given, so we were we
[5:45] reconciled the entire election.
[5:47] So, there was no discrepancies.
[5:51] » [snorts]
[5:51] » Um 15 provisional ballots were issued
[5:54] and 14 provisional ballots were counted.
[5:56] One provisional ballot was not counted
[5:58] because the provisional ballot voter
[6:00] affiliated as unaffiliated.
[6:03] So, we cannot open up that provisional
[6:05] ballot. Only a Republican can open that.
[6:08] Well, it will be counted.
[6:09] » So, how did they get a ballot?
[6:11] » It's provisional. So, they had to come
[6:12] in and vote in person. So, provisional
[6:14] is very similar to same-day voting.
[6:16] So, it's for voters of who recently
[6:18] moved and they didn't receive their
[6:20] ballots, they had to come in. Or, um
[6:22] under state code, unaffiliated voters
[6:24] can affiliate in person by voting
[6:26] provisionally. So,
[6:28] this person was unaffiliated and stayed
[6:30] in state unaffiliated. So, we did not
[6:32] count that. We didn't open that ballot.
[6:36] Um so, we had a 93.3% provisional
[6:39] acceptance rate.
[6:41] Uh we had 307
[6:43] challenged ballots, which means they
[6:45] either had signature issues. Uh this
[6:48] year, the last four digits so all those
[6:50] last four digits weren't provided for
[6:52] us.
[6:53] And um
[6:55] 48 of those were rejected. So, our uh
[6:58] percentage of curable ballots that were
[7:00] not curable were only 15%, which is
[7:03] really, really low.
[7:05] So, we we were be able we were able to
[7:07] count most of the ballots that were had
[7:10] signature issues or number issues.
[7:12] » In that case, you're calling people or
[7:14] emailing them and
[7:15] » Call, text, email, carrier pigeon.
[7:18] We try all forms of communication to
[7:20] » Send out smoke signals?
[7:21] » [laughter]
[7:21] » I saw them.
[7:24] » You did a good job this morning, I
[7:26] guess.
[7:26] » [laughter]
[7:27] » There were a lot of them.
[7:28] » One.
[7:30] » Any questions with our stats?
[7:33] Okay. On to the next page.
[7:35] Um I guess the page after.
[7:37] Um these are the results
[7:39] for Cache County. So,
[7:41] Blake Moore received 8,650
[7:44] compared to Carrie Ann Lewis B 5,807.
[7:49] Uh for the county attorney's race, uh J.
[7:51] Brett Chambers received 8,381
[7:54] and Dane Murray received 6,035.
[7:59] Okay.
[8:00] And that's all we have
[8:02] to present to you guys. If you have any
[8:04] questions for me
[8:11] » No questions, just a big thank you.
[8:13] » Yeah. Oh, I want to give a shout out to
[8:16] Michelle and Kyla. There's They were the
[8:18] ones who did most of all the work. They
[8:20] did a great job.
[8:21] » Thank you.
[8:22] » Bravo.
[8:22] » Very much. We were down one full-time
[8:24] staff member this election and
[8:27] somehow we got to bed by 9:30.
[8:28] » I heard Matt's going to buy you a drink.
[8:30] » [laughter]
[8:32] » Thank you for your expertise and for
[8:34] everything that you do. I really
[8:35] appreciate that.
[8:36] » So, who's going to show up on the
[8:38] general ballot?
[8:39] » The general ballot, Blake and Brett
[8:41] Chambers.
[8:42] » Brett Chambers.
[8:42] » Yeah.
[8:42] » And I don't think there's any other
[8:44] » A Democrat challenger?
[8:45] » Say.
[8:46] » Brett doesn't have a Democrat
[8:47] challenger, but he will Yeah.
[8:50] And Blake does have a Democrat
[8:51] challenger.
[8:52] » Yeah, he does have a Democrat
[8:52] challenger.
[8:54] » We still are in the writing period.
[8:56] » Yeah.
[8:56] » Oh, okay.
[9:05] » Okay. So, I will accept a motion to
[9:08] certify the 2026 Cache County primary
[9:10] election.
[9:11] » I'll make a motion that we certify the
[9:13] 2026 Republican primary
[9:16] election.
[9:17] » I'll second.
[9:19] » JoAnn can have it.
[9:20] » Now, seconded by JoAnn. Are any
[9:23] discussion on the motion?
[9:25] Seeing none, we'll vote. All those in
[9:26] favor say aye.
[9:28] Any opposed?
[9:29] Okay. Thank you. It's unanimous. Thank
[9:31] you very much. Okay.
[9:33] » And then I have a signature sheet that
[9:34] Catherine has.
[9:35] » We'll sign the signature sheet of all
[9:37] those that that are certifying the
[9:38] election. Um I'll accept a motion to
[9:40] adjourn.
[9:41] » So moved.
[9:42] » Second?
[9:43] » Second.
[9:43] » Okay. All those in favor say "Aye." Aye.
[9:46] Okay, we stand adjourned.