Hey, good evening. Uh, this evening at
5:00 p.m. we'll convene the regular
meeting of the GIL Township Election
Commission. I'll call the meeting to
order at 503 and we'll start with the
pledge of allegiance.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
Okay, roll call. There's only three of
us on this commission, so I see uh
Supervisor Porzelli to my left and
Treasure Flavin further to my left.
Gentlemen, are there any additions or
deletions to this agenda?
>> No.
Then I would accept a motion to
approve the agenda.
>> Motion to approve.
>> Second.
>> All in favor? I
>> I.
>> There are no presentations. There is no
public present to comment. Brian, is
there any writeins regarding the
election commission?
>> There is not.
>> Okay.
Then I would accept a uh approval of the
minutes from October 15, 2024 regular
meeting.
>> Motion to approve.
>> Second.
>> All in favor?
>> I.
>> All right. And action items. First one
is the election commission authorized
assistant. Do you want to take the first
two, Mr. Supervisor, and then the second
two, Mr. Treasurer?
>> Sure.
>> Um, the election commission of
Townsville Gill is called. Oh, no. I'm
sorry. I apologize. Commission
authorized.
Yeah.
Uh recommendations to appoint the
following assistants for August 4, 2026
primary election to be utilized as
necessary to carry out the duties of the
commission. Brian Fel, deputy clerk
Karen Karp, elections and records
clerical assistant.
>> Second.
>> All right. All in favor?
>> I I motion carries.
Next one to you, Mr. Supervisor.
Uh that would be the recommendation is
to establish the following absent
counting boards for August 4th, 2026
primary election. Uh number one, AVCB1,
AVCB2,
ABCB3.
So I'm assuming those are the
like serial numbers to the machines.
>> So that's absent voting, counting board
one, absent voting, county board two,
absent. So we have three of them.
All right. Can I get a second?
>> Second.
>> All right. No. Any further discussion?
No. All right. All in favor?
>> I motion carries and then over to you,
Treasurer Flavin.
>> Uh
>> with the appointment of Oh, you got it.
Yeah.
>> I make a mo motion to appoint
appointment of qualified and registered
election inspectors and receiving board
officials to appoint the attached
qualified and registered election
inspectors and receiving board officials
for the August 4th, 2026 primary
election as represented in the meeting
packet.
>> Second.
>> Thank you.
>> All right. Now on the next page of the
packet, you can see several individuals
that are assigned to precinct
inspectors, early voting inspectors,
absency counting board inspectors, and
then the receiving board. Any further
discussion on that?
>> No. Nope.
>> All right. All in favor?
>> I. All opposed?
>> Nay. Oh, no. No.
>> No. No.
>> All eyes.
>> And one more, please.
>> Emergency election inspectors,
chairpeople, and receiving board
officials. Recommendation to follow to
allow the clerk and or deputy clerk to
appoint qualified and registered
emergency election inspectors,
chairpeople and/or receiving board
members as needed for the August 4th,
2026 primary election.
>> Second.
>> Any discussion?
>> No, sir.
>> All in favor? I
>> I.
>> All right. Motion carries. There are no
discussion items there. I mean, does
anybody want to provide a report?
>> No.
Okay. Uh uh still no public comment.
We will move immediately after this we
will move into a study session to
conduct the August 4th 2026 primary
election public accuracy test. So at
this time I would accept a motion to
adjurnn.
>> Motion to adjourn the regular meeting.
>> Second. All in favor?
>> I I All right. The regular meeting is
closed and we are now in study session
to conduct the primary election public
accuracy test. Over to you, Mr. Freel.
» I said to run down the hall. I had the
ballots locked up in the room, so let me
go grab them.
Um,
I was going to ask you something, but
that's all right. We're good.
I didn't prepare a comedy bit or
anything to
do. You need a hand, brain.
>> All right.
>> You want us down there, correct?
>> Yes, please.
» That one working. There we go. All
right. Yes. So, I'm going to ask you
guys to come down.
>> I'm not going to scream into this.
Sorry, Mike and Lori in the control
room.
» We need pens or anything, Brian?
>> Uh, no. I've got pens.
All right. So, basically what we're
going to do here today is we're going to
test our early voting tabulator and our
one of our precinct tabulators. This is
a precinct 3. I grabbed um our ballot on
demand system and our uh voter assist
terminal. Okay. Um basically what we're
going to do um we'll print a test ballot
out of the voter assist terminal. We'll
print one ballot out of each precinct
for the ballot on demand to prove that
it is testing or it is printing properly
and doing what it's functioning the way
it's supposed to. And then we will run
predetermined ballots through these two
tabulators to make sure that the test
comes out accurate. Okay. Um I've
obviously pre-ested them and it came out
accurate, but we will do it now for the
public. Um there is a testing procedure
created by the state of Michigan um that
we have to follow for every election to
uh make sure that the they all not only
do they just function properly, you
know, buttons working, sound working, um
but to make sure that they're marking
the ballots correctly. All right. So we
predetermine
what candidates going to get how many
votes and they all have a different
number of votes so that when we run
these and print it off it comes out
exactly the way we pred predetermined
it. Okay. Um so let me get these open
and we can start doing that. I'm going
to have you guys actually start running
these.
» This is new equipment this year, right?
>> No, not yet.
No, we can get down there after this.
» All right. So, I did have the tabulators
uh already plugged in, so we didn't have
to go through the whole uploading
process because it does take a second.
Um, so what I'll do is I will open the
poles on each of them, start running the
zero tapes.
Once these zero tapes are run, the
election commission is going to review
them to make sure uh, one, there's no
votes on them already. They should all
be zero. Um, and two, that all the
candidates match the candidates that are
on the ballot. So, I'll give you each a
ballot and you can go through it.
So you can see there's essentially out
of a
so you can see governor candidate well
actually you can see the uh totals and
then governor candidates United States
senator and it go it'll go through the
democratic representatives and then it
will go to the pump representatives
and then other
all
So, we're looking to make sure there are
no votes,
>> right? And then I'm then I'm going to
hand you guys a ballot and I will have
you just make sure that all candidates
listed on this ballot also are listed on
that tape.
>> They don't have to be in the same order,
but they all have to be
>> because they do flip around the order
depending on what precinct you're in.
All right. All zeros, which is correct,
right?
>> That is you have precinct 3, I believe.
Is that correct?
>> Yes, that's precinct three.
>> Okay.
>> And this is
tabular 191.
Here's a present. does have marks on
sign. Don't worry about that.
» So now we got to compare
>> and then
>> we got
so
» EV12
governor. We got one,
>> right? So uh so this is the early voting
tabulator. So it literally is all three
precincts in one. Um, so we're just
going to look at the ballot for precinct
one to make sure everybody's on there.
» Govern
United States Senator Democrats, we got
Moral Stevens.
And then sixth district uh
representative we got Dingle. That's it.
>> State senator. Fourth district we got
Camelary.
>> These are just Democrats.
>> Representative state legislature. 27th
district. We got churches only.
>> All right. County Executive. We got
Evans
John
Sigma.
That's it. Got two for
Republican.
>> Oh, no. They're down here.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah, they're down here.
» County Executive Evans
Sigma
» uh delegates county convention growil. I
got uh Domino, Leon, or Banny.
>> Only three, right?
>> Yes.
Now for the Republican electoral groups
that James
United States Senator Rogers only
>> uh six district
>> you need
precinct one
>> this is precinct two that's precinct
three so you'll skip past those go to
that
only
>> county executive. We got
executive. Is this Michael Evans?
Republican. This is correct. Michael
Evans and Warren. Warren is a Democrat,
right?
>> So, the one running against them is
Michael Evans. Warren Evans.
>> I don't Yeah. Okay. I don't know who.
I'm sure they're
>> the names correct, right?
>> Yes. Yeah, there is a Michael Evans on
there.
>> No idea.
» There are no votes cast.
>> That's not right.
>> Okay, this matches the ballots and there
are no votes cast.
» Do we need to sign these tickets?
>> Um,
yes, we can. Uh so we can sign when
we're done. Okay. Um that way we get
through the bulk in this first and then
we'll
» Evan.
» All right. We reviewed and came out with
>> this is good.
>> Everything's good. Okay. So, both
>> reviewing it.
>> So, precinct one, precinct 3 went
through them. Everything's good. Um, now
we'll start running ballots. Um,
basically the way this works, um, with
the predetermined test, um,
it's going to have scenarios. The first
12 ballots are a full scenario. So,
you're going to have um a blank ballot.
You're going to have a ballot with um uh
stray marks. You're going to have a
ballot that's from a different precinct
to show that precinct 3 can't take a
ballot from another precinct. Obviously,
the early voting one can take a ballot
from all of them. So, we'll have to skip
that one when we do that one because
early voting is all three precincts in
one. Um it will have um overvoting
the partisan section Democrat. It'll
have over voting the Republican section
Dem uh it'll have over voting the um
what are they called? The the uh the
millages or the proposals. Um, so it's
gonna go the first 12 are scenarios and
then after that it's all about having no
candidate within a section having the
same amount of votes so that we know
exactly how it's going to turn out. So
if two people had
>> So if two people had eight votes, you
wouldn't be able to tell for sure if the
tabulator did it correctly or not. So at
that point, we're just trying to line
them up so they're all getting a
different number of votes so that we
know exactly how this is going to turn
out. Um,
» okay. So,
>> I'll just move this over here. Whoever
you two are going to run those. So, what
we're going to do, the first page, it's
just directions, and I'm going to walk
you through it. So, you can skip that
one. So, your tablet is going to move
way faster than mine. I'm just going to
let you know it's a newer version of the
um
All right. So, mine says, I don't want
any more copies. Does yours ask you if
you want more copies?
>> All right, perfect. So, system ready.
So, we're going to take our first
ballot. I can tell on this one, the
first ballot is a complete overvote of
the Democratic partisan section and the
uh proposals. Okay. So, every single
oval in those two are are filled in.
>> Yeah, it's every single oval in those
two sections. So,
>> we're going to put that in.
>> Where's the answer?
>> Tabler's going to beep at you. Yours is
beeping a lot faster than mine and it's
going to tell you that you have we have
an overvote found. Okay. All right. So,
we are just going to make it. We're
going to have it cast that ballot. Yeah.
Yours actually is a little
>> Yep. So, we'll hit cast. It's going to
take it. All right. Now, the next ballot
I can see is a complete overvote of the
Republican section.
>> So,
>> right at the polls, if you were to walk
up in the tab BPA, you said overvote, we
would then give you the option, would
you like to get that ballot back?
>> Get a new ballot.
>> Fix your fix it. All right. get right.
It would be right. Or you could look at
it and say, "Well, it's maybe it's only
one little section. I don't care about
that section, so I'm just going to let
it be because everything else will
count."
>> You know, so there there are
>> All right.
>> This one is a
>> that's an over.
>> It's going to be over vote of Republican
and the proposals. So, we're going to
cast that.
» All right. The next one is going to be
the stray marks one. I know it looks
kind of funny.
But it should tell me it's a blank
ballot
>> once it goes in.
Blank ballot detected. Okay. Because it
just has has stray marks on it. Nothing
none of the ovals were actually filled
in.
>> Right.
>> And we're going to cast that.
>> Everything will be cast, just so you
know.
>> I got confused.
>> All right. Ballot number four is
literally a it is a blank ballot. No
votes cast on it.
>> Nothing.
>> So it should beep at us and let us know
that we have a blank ballot. ballot
detected.
>> Correct.
>> Yep.
>> And then we cast them.
» Got two there.
>> All right. Ballot number five. Looks
like we have an overvote in the
Republican partisan section and the
proposals are correct.
» You have chose two. You are allowed one.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> So, we have an over vote. I could hit
more and it'll give me way more
information, but um for our purposes, we
know it is detecting overvote, which is
what it is.
All right, ballot number six. I have an
overvote in just the partisan section
and or I'm sorry, in the proposal
section. Republican
>> section is correct. I know you guys are
going to get way ahead of me.
>> We'll stay We'll stay with you so you
can
>> Yeah.
>> And we have an over vote. We know where
it's going to be. the number behind the
>> So, it's going to tell you how many how
many of those
>> areas are overvolted,
>> right? That's what I mean. You could
turn the ballot.
>> So, your last one should have said just two,
>> right?
>> At the pre,
>> right? Because it was just the proposal,
so it should have just shown two.
>> Mine I would have to hit a bunch of
buttons to get to that. Um, so this
one's going to be an overvote in the
Democratic partisan section with the
proposals being voted correctly.
And you're going to cast it.
>> We're going to cast it. You want to cast
it?
>> I'll cast it.
>> Hold on. Let it It's gonna There it is.
>> Over vote.
>> Would you hold this up so people can
see? Oh, yeah. These are test.
>> These are test ballot. It says test at
the top. All right. Not not real ballots
here.
>> I mean, they are real in the sense that
the table does take them, but they are
test. All right. Next ballot. Um, we
have correct in the Democratic partisan
section and overvote in the proposal
section.
over voted in this twice or two times.
>> So, it been
>> okay, you are good.
» All right. I will say this. Just when
you get to 12, don't put number 12 in
for you because it's it's supposed to be
a different precinct. It'll take yours.
>> This is nine.
>> I know. When you get to 12, just getting
ahead because you guys sometimes feed
before me. Uh number nine. Um this one's
going to be a complete crossover vote.
They voted Democratic and Republican. So
this ballot would not count except the
proposals would count.
>> Okay? So if you if you cross over vote
in a primary election, which means
voting in the Democratic and Republican
sections, your ballot for the partisan
section will not count at all, but your
proposal still would. Just so that All
right.
>> So if you were at home and you've and
you all of a sudden watching this and
you're like, "Oh, wait. I can't vote for
people on both sides, both uh both. You
cannot. All right. You can come in and
visit us with your absentee ballout. Go
ahead and hit that. You can come in and
we can spoil that absentee bout and give
you a new one. Um if that's the case,
just letting you know. All right. So,
that one. Do you really want to? Yes.
That one's special because it's a
crossover. It really wants to ask. Are
you sure you want to do this? Because
it's not going to count.
>> Okay.
>> All right. Um, so ballot number 10 on
our test is
>> uh all writeins for the Democratic side.
Just writeins.
» Do any of the writings count?
>> This should count. Yes, this will take
it. Um, the the tabulator itself just so
we all understand like when you write in
a write in oval, obviously there's no
nothing next to it. You have to write
something next to it and it has to be a
correct valid write in for it to count.
We get a lot of people at elections,
they put in Mickey Mouse and stuff like
that, you know, obviously they don't
count. It has to be someone who's
actually put in and run for a write in
um and that would count,
>> right? So it there is a um a bin inside
this we'll look at after when we open it
up. Um they holds all the writeins from
falling into the bottom. So at the end
of the night, our inspectors can pull
out the bottom ballots without writeins,
then open up the write in so they can go
through them to make sure should any of
these count. All right. So it does keep
them aside to to make their night a
little bit easier instead of going
through every single ballot looking for
writeins.
>> Uh that one would have gone because it
was voted correctly just like this will
be voted correctly too in the Republican
writins.
» So your 12 you skipped right.
All right. So, R12
is wrong precinct. It's preync number
one. All right. So, it should
I'm waiting. There we go. It should spit
it back at us
and tell us invalid ballot detected.
Please ensure you receive the correct
ballot. Okay. Um,
>> how could somebody get
wrong? So, uh, a lot harder now unless
we literally hand we give the wrong
boxes to
>> All right. Because now they're in
different buildings.
>> It was a little bit easier when we had
two precincts in a building.
>> So, you'd have one and two at
Presbyterian, three and four, and then
we had five and six where maybe an
inspector because those were tight
areas, ballots could be kept in the
middle of the room, they were supposed
to be on different sides of the tables.
inspector went over, grabbed the next
batch of but it was the wrong the wrong
precinct. So all a sudden all the voters
are coming back going none of these
work. All right.
>> Um so now uh we're going to skip the
next one. We're just going to run right
into um part two number one. All these
where all these ballots are just trying
to get different numbers of people who
voted. All right. So we're trying to get
two to one three. So
Yes. So, all this is going to be now
just correct. I actually Kevin, I'll let
you feed some ballots. It's just going
to take a second. Wait till
>> Do you want us to keep feeding them?
>> You can just go. Yes.
>> And wait till it says uh ready. Your
system ready. And now you can put the
next one in.
» Ours is just the old old 10year-old
style. That's really slow.
>> I see. So if somebody just has two they
want to vote for, it's still a good
ballot,
>> right?
>> Break the rules.
>> I mean, you can vote for one.
>> Yeah, you could walk if you just wanted
to vote governor and vote nothing else
on the ballot. It still counts. It's
just that that's the only thing you're
going to get.
>> Yeah,
>> you could come in and just vote
proposals and walk out. I mean, however
you
>> successful.
So one of these pop back
successful. Yeah, we at this point, none
of the rest of them should beep, do
anything. Everything should be a clean a
clean feed.
And just a reminder, while they're
running these ballots, um we do have
absentee ballots available right now. Um
ballots, uh we've had it for a couple
weeks now, um if you'd like a ballot,
you can contact our office, either come
in, fill out an application, contact us,
uh via phone, we can email you, or uh
mail you an application. you do have to
fill an application um always before we
can give you a ballot. Um so um that is
the law. Um but once you fill out that
application, we can give you a ballot.
Um early voting is going to start on um
July 25th. All right? So Saturday, July
25th, and that will run for nine
consecutive days from 8:00 am to 400 pm
every day. Um,
so if you want to
uh if you want to come in, um, if you
can't come on election day, but you want
to come in and vote early, um, it's it
it's literally like what we're doing
right now. You fill out a ballot like
you're in the precinct, inspectors, you
know, shuffle you around. You go to your
voting booth, um, and then you go and
you feed your ballot into the tabulator.
Um, if you have an absentee ballot and
you'd like to actually feed your
absentee ballot into a tabulator, you
can bring your absentee ballot to early
voting and vote it there. You can bring
it on election day and vote it on
election day in a tabulator.
Um, if you did receive an abs ball and
you've decided you want to um, not use
it and go vote in person or uh, you
know, in person either at early voting
or on election day, um, you can come in
and surrender that ballot to us um, and
then you can do whatever you'd like.
If you have a situation where a
candidate dies,
>> if a candidate uh passes away or
candidate um pulls out um of the
election, which we did just have someone
um in that case, if that's someone you
had already cast a vote for, you can
come in and we can spoil that ballot and
we can get you a new ballot.
Right.
The biggest thing in this election,
also, if you do have an FC ball out
there, please
um sign your absentee ballot um on the
envelope on the outside when you before
you return it. Uh we've got a whole
stack already that are unsigned and
we're trying to contact people to come
in. Um so that'd be really helpful.
» All right. All of them were taken.
You want this too, Brian? Somewhere in
the
>> Um, you could just leave it there for
right now. That's fine. Um, you're all going to sign it um before
this is over. What we'll do is um we'll
get everything tested. We'll make sure
everything was correct and then we can
do all the paperwork stuff off camera.
We don't have they don't need to watch
us sign things and seal things up. At
that at that point, it'll be no one
talking. It's going to be probably
pretty boring for them. So, uh, but what
we will do is we will, um, run the tapes
on these, make sure it came out
correctly, um, like it was supposed to
So a long time ago you went in, you gave
your ballot and people had to actually
>> correct.
» Yeah. Now we we only have to tally on um
writeins.
>> Yeah. Which usually isn't a huge number.
So, um,
» yeah, that
>> you know when the township started with
these machines,
>> these particular ones or
>> um I you know what that I don't know. I mean I w I
obviously haven't been around long
enough to vote in one of the booths with
the curtain. I did never got to do that.
So,
» um, okay. Um, so ballots have been run.
Now, we're going to close our polls. Um,
so I I will have Jameson grabbed. There
should be Do you have a key over there?
>> Did I steal your key? Maybe.
» All right. So, you're gonna
You're going to take your key and you're
going to put it over this security key
flat. No, the You're gonna take There
you go. Yep. This round. It's then going
to bring up an administrative menu on
your other side.
>> And I'm going to close the polls.
>> Password.
is
I don't want to say that.
>> Not gonna say it out loud. So,
Am I certain I want to close the polls?
Yes. This is the same process our
election inspectors would go through at
the end of the night. Um and then what
it's going to do is it's going to
generate that uh yep results tape for
us.
Now, it's programmed to print five tapes
total. We're gonna cancel this after the
first one. Uh Jameson, you'll be able to
pick how many you do. So, you're in a
better shot than me. You having some
issues over there.
Sorry.
The two don't do the exact same.
» So these are the actual tapes that you
hang up at the end of
>> correct
>> voting.
>> All right. So I'm going to
>> I'm going to cancel that where it's at.
Um, I think we ran over the first one,
which is fine.
Make sure there are no ballads in the
auxiliary of the box.
All right.
Okay. All right. So, now we're going to
um we have our simulated tapes that
we're going to compare this to.
Um, and they should come out exactly the
same. So, I'll give you yours. Um,
yours is going to be a little bit
different because you have
the
other tabulator.
All right. So, yours should Did you have
30?
>> 36.
>> Yes. All right. So, you're gonna take
that and you and Joe can review that
tape. Um,
and then we're going to
>> This is all pretty.
>> All right. So, we're going to review
our tape here.
Um,
so we've got
let's see. So you should be starting
with as we scroll through here a little
bit
>> our first candidate down there. So we
had 34 ballots cast.
>> That's what this says it should have had
is 34.
>> All right. So then we're going to start
with looks like the Democratic side with
governor.
>> Okay.
>> All right. So um looks like uh Benson
four
>> Swanson five or six I mean sorry
>> and write in one.
>> Yes. Okay. And then um Senator Well,
actually yours is probably going to go
the other governor. So let me
>> Okay,
>> let me jump over here. So we've got Cox
with four.
>> Yes.
>> James with six.
>> Yes.
>> Johnson with two.
>> Yes.
>> Nesbbit with three.
>> Yes.
>> One writen.
>> Correct.
>> Okay. Then we're going to jump back to
US Senator
um Els
>> correct.
>> Um McMorro three.
>> Correct.
>> Stevens five.
>> Correct.
>> Wrighten one. Correct.
>> And now uh Mike Rogers 11.
>> Correct.
>> Right in one.
>> Correct.
>> Okay. Uh rep in Congress 6th district,
we've got Dingle five. Right in one.
>> Correct.
>> And
Smiley 12, right in one.
>> Correct.
>> State senator fourth district came six
right in one.
>> Correct.
>> And uh Marcy 13, right in one.
>> Correct.
Rep in 27th district uh churches seven
right in one
>> correct
>> linting 14 right in one
>> corrective
>> county executive uh Warren Evans three
>> yes
>> Sigma seven
>> correct
>> and right in one
>> yes
>> and then on the other side we've got um
Evans with 15 and right in one
>> correct
>> county delegate delegate to the county
convention we've Got uh Domino 10, Leon
7, Urbani 8, and right in eight.
>> Correct.
>> And then
on the other side,
right here. So, we have no one. Oh,
wait. No one
>> says write in 14.
>> Where am I at?
>> For the Republican convention.
>> Oh,
how am I missing that page? Hold on.
Oh, right
>> here. Yes. 14. Sorry. Yes. County
convention 14. Correct. All right. And
then we would be on the two
>> transportation.
>> Sorry. Transport transit 1511.
>> Correct.
>> I'm sorry. Yes. 15. No. 11. Correct. And
then the uh police mill. Yes. 16. No.
10.
>> Correct.
>> Okay.
>> So, that came out absolutely correct.
>> All right. So, um
All right. So, next up for us,
>> we are going to hit utilities and we are
going to
>> zero this back out. Take these 34 votes
out. So, it's ready for election day.
Okay.
>> Hit zero.
» That is not the right code.
All right, ballots cast zero. We are
back to zero. It is ready
>> for election day.
>> Correct.
>> All right. Excellent.
>> Excellent.
>> We can shut this one down.
» Nice work.
>> Thank you very much. All right. And then
we will move on to these two
>> once they're ready to go. These will be
really fast and we'll be done.
>> 19 9 28 44. Okay. Uh
27
28 44. Okay. Uh That's it.
That's all that I had on that tape.
>> Everything came out correct.
>> No. So, the number of undervotes, the
machine is reporting a higher number of
under votes than this. This Well, the
machine's reporting less actually. So,
this is saying this should have 20 under
votes. We had zero,
right? This one, nine, eight. So, there seems to be a 20.
Oh, that's cuz our I'm sorry. Our um
we don't program it to do under votes.
>> Okay.
>> Some states do so that it does get
programmed that way, but or the their
tape there will come out that way, but
we don't program it to keep track of
under votes. That's why ours are all
zero.
>> Yeah. I once you said it, I thought,
"Oh, wait. Are we actually is it
tracking something?" Like it had votes.
I'm like, "If it had things, then I was
going to have a problem." But they're
all zero.
>> Yes. Okay, that's that is perfect and it
came out correct.
>> Okay.
>> All right. Um, so all right, if you're
done, then we can zero out your
uh we'll zero out yours and be done with
it. We are not going to print again.
» It's going to do it.
>> Oh, the right.
>> It's doing the right in. Yeah.
>> Um, yeah, with this tabulator, it does
ask you if you'd like a write in report.
Um,
>> so
they don't they get a head start on
writeins because they can actually it'll
print off and take a snapshot picture of
whatever you wrote. So this tabular is
more sophisticated than the old ones.
Um, so they can start with the tape and
know if any of the writeins are even
valid without even having to look at the
ballot. All right. But once they do see
that there are, then they'll start
comparing them to make sure it is.
Okay.
All right. So, we're just going to
quickly zero this one back out.
go through it and then
>> open it up.
» I do not press these very well.
» I guarantee I'll get it wrong.
Do you read that one as a treasure?
>> I feel good when I get it right.
>> We're not going to print that.
» Yes.
>> Okay. So, at this point, our ballot
counter says zero. So, we're back to,
you know, ready to go for uh election
day now. Everything tested perfect. We
know it works. We put it at zero. We
lock it up. This now will be ready uh
delivered to the precinct or actually
this is early voting. So on the 25th
it'll be delivered downstairs um and
ready to go for the inspectors.
We'll shut that down. All right. And
then we just have two other quick items
to do. Um we are going to
quickly log into our ballot on demand.
This is how we do ballots in the um
early voting. Um we don't actually hand
you ballots like you do in the precinct.
We you come in and we print your ballot
there. Um
so let's go.
» Oops. And let's see if I can get the
password right and we'll be all set.
Okay.
Oh,
I'm putting in the number like I'm doing
the tabulator.
Okay,
so here's our ballot on demand system.
Um just like I know for you show at home
um it shows three ballot styles uh for
precinct one, precinct two, and precinct
3. Um so what we will do, we're going to
print one ballot for each precinct to
show that it's working correctly
>> for the early voting.
>> For the this is Yep. for the early
voting.
>> All right.
And print
There you go.
>> All right. You want to take a look at
that?
>> It should say precinct one at the top. I
hope
that was correct.
>> All right. And then we'll do a precinct
two.
Yeah, if you want you can compare.
» Oh, this is
» it. It's It is really nice. I mean, I
will I say it's made my life worse
during elections. Yes, because I'm here
for, you know, 19 straight days now. Um,
but I do agree with the fact that it is
very nice feature. I mean, it's
>> going to the polls and voting on
>> but a lot of people can. So, I mean,
it's a tradition.
>> Precinct two.
Yes.
>> Um,
But I think for a lot of people this is
going to become a new tradition. Like we
go on the second Saturday of early
voting and we vote that every that's
where we go every time, you know. Like I
think that'll become a new a new thing.
>> Correct. Correct.
>> Uh yeah. So you're looking at uh nine
straight days from the 25th of July
through the 2nd of August, 8 to 4 every
day.
>> Yep.
>> Thank you for being here.
>> My pleasure. All right. This should be
>> precinct three.
>> Precinct.
>> Oh, my inspectors love early voting.
>> It's a shorter day like compared to, you
know, the election day is obviously like
an 18hour day. It's awful. Uh, you know,
this is just a 9h hour day.
All right. So, all three printed
correctly. All right. So, now we will
test real quick the um
uh voter assist terminal. So, basically
what the voter assist terminal is, every
precinct has one. All right. Um
it's a ballot marking device. Okay. So,
um if you
um need us, it's not even for anyone who
needs it. Anyone can use it. All right.
Let me just state it that way. All
right. It it's it's made for anyone. I
know they always talk about it being um
you know, like a handicap machine, but
that's that's not really correct. Anyone
could walk, sit down at this and mark
their ballot electronically. You don't
have to fill in circles yourself. Okay.
And it'll print your ballot out here.
And then you take this print, you put it
through the tabulator.
>> Okay.
>> You're talking about using this,
>> correct?
>> Okay.
>> Yep. So, and and I will show you that
here in a second. Um,
>> so, uh, for some people, I know our
inspectors have started pushing it a
little bit more during primaries because
it will not allow you to cross over
vote. You can't. All right. You have to
pick a party and you that's it. You
can't there you don't see the other
party. You pick it before you start. All
right. So there's no way to try to cross
over and mess up your ballot. Your
ballot can't be messed up. Okay. Um so I
know for my inspectors, they do really
like it. Um
so it it like I said, it's for anybody.
Um it does have the functions of um you
know headphones if you need you know to
listen to it. It has braille if you know
for you to actually be able to you do
your device that way. Um there is you
know it pretty much can do all. So um
>> now you have to have is that just to
test it your key you put in or do you
get one when you go there?
>> Um so every person who votes we'll have
to we use the same card for everybody
though. But if you're going to use it
then they'll take you over.
>> I got you.
>> Yep. I'm just going to put this code in
without the camera maybe catching me.
Sorry, Kevin, if I shot you there.
» I get you. So, it's one key, but it can
only be used once at a time.
>> One time.
>> Correct. Yep.
All right. So, this would be when our
election inspectors would turn it on in
the morning. Um, they'd put in their
code. Um, they'd confirm the time, date,
and time, and then they'd open the
polls.
Okay. So, now now it's ready to go.
Okay. So, I'm a voter. I get my card. I
sit down. Um, it's going to ask me the
activation code. So, the activation code
is there's a different code for each
ballot style. So, precinct one, precinct
two, or precinct 3. So, depending on
what precinct you are, or obviously, if
you're at early voting, you have to be
able to put in the correct code to vote
your correct ballot. So, the inspectors
would give you the code that you need to
put in. Um, I'll just pick
uh precinct one for right now.
All right. So, here's where my
selection. So, it's going to give me I
have to pick either Democrat,
Republican, or a nonpartisan ballot. So,
I could just pick to vote just the two
mill, you know, two proposals and that's
it.
>> All right. Um, let's say I just pick a
Democrat. It's the top one. Um, I didn't
turn that on, so you're not going to
hear that right now, but but yeah,
they're headphones.
>> Yeah, that's that's great.
>> So, it's it's as easy as here's your
ballot.
All right. Governor, you just pick. All
right, I'm I'm actually gonna unmark
things, but it won't let you overvote
anything. You have to unselect to go to
the next person. So,
>> um can't make a mistake.
>> You can't mess up on this.
>> All right. And then as you click next,
it's just going to show you each one.
>> Yeah.
>> All right.
>> And we're going to just print uh you
scroll down, you get your yes and no. It
won't let you pick them both. You have
to undo. And this is for
>> So that would be if you needed um
braille.
>> All right. Um it's also the sound um how
fast it talks
>> and how the volume of it.
>> So you would have these on.
>> Correct.
>> And
>> Yep.
>> That's correct.
>> Yep. Um and then you can use these
controls instead of touching the screen.
>> Okay.
>> Excellent. Thank you.
>> Um all right. So then same thing. We're
just going to get through here. We're
going to print a nice zero. It says um
your ballot is blank. All right. And
it's as simple as then hitting print
your ballot.
That's it. All right. Then you would
you'd put that into your secrecy sleeve.
You'd go to the last table like you
always do at the precinct and then you
would feed this in. So it it's going to
look a little obviously I have a test in
here so it's going to look a lot
different but basically what you're
going to have is you have everything
that you voted is listed
>> and then you have a QR code which is
what that is actually going to read.
>> Is that the actual size?
>> That's it.
Okay. There's no front and
back on this. Everything will be on the
front front page. Um and then it's as
simple as that. So
>> all right. So we tested that and just
make sure someone wants to look. Just
make sure they're all blank.
>> I didn't I didn't vote anything, so
everything should just say blank next to
it. I know it's a little hard to read,
but
>> all blank.
» You wish
for me, not Kevin.
>> All good. All right. So, that will uh
conclude our testing of our voting
equipment for the public. Um,
obviously we have, you know, three other
of these vats,
nine other tabulators,
um, that we are testing and going
through that process with. Same exact
thing you just watched here. Um, and I
think that's about it. So, uh, what
we're going to do now is we will seal up
everything, sign all the paperwork. All
right, people at home, I'm sure that
would be super boring to watch us do all
that. So, um, we will sign off on this
and, uh, hopefully everybody goes out
and votes on August 4th or or before
then.
>> Can you just repeat the times of
>> So, go ahead.
>> Yep. Uh, so obviously absentee voting,
uh, will start with that's Monday
through Friday. Um, 8 to 4:30 you can
get a ballot. Um, early voting will
start July 25th and run every single day
through August Sunday, August 2nd.
That's so that's Saturday the 25th
through August 2nd. It's a Sunday. Um,
and that's 8 to 4 every day.
>> Do you have to bring ID to vote?
>> Yes, you have to have an ID. Um, if you
I I say yes, but if you forgot your ID,
you can sign an affidavit swearing that
you didn't bring your ID. You didn't
have your ID with you on that day. Um,
and you have to sign off on that. Um,
but yeah, ID makes it much easier and
much faster for our election inspectors.
Um I will say but um you can also if you
have happen to forget it you now I will
say if you walk in and say I refuse to
show it to you you cannot vote that is a
no have a good day um you've forfeited
the right if you refuse to show
>> ID driver's license
>> passport uh government IDs there is a
list tribal um but um I'm not going to
go through every single one here but
>> it's more than just your driver's
license
>> just some yes you have other options
correct uh school ID does work.
>> Um,
>> so,
>> okay, good.
>> And even high school ID now works. It
didn't used to, but now they've added
that to the list.
>> Um, so, okay. So, uh, we're going to
sign off and
>> like to
>> Oh, yeah.
>> Uh, clerk Jagger and Deputy Clerk
and all those folks. I think there are
about 50 54 people that are helping
behind the scenes.
>> Yeah, we've got a lot of people and
we're still looking for a couple more to
fill it out. So, if anybody out there is
willing to work an election, we'd love
to have you. Uh, training's probably a
good hour, hour and a half, maybe two
hours at the most. Um, and, uh,
>> and you'll get some donuts and some
pizza. Uh, yeah, that pizza's big. All
right. Donuts, pizza, coffee all day,
and water. So, you know, that's, you
know, it's a big day.
>> So, and it's not just volunteer. You do
actually get paid for it. So, um, but
all right. So,
>> thank you. Thank you for tuning in and
watching this. Uh if you have any
questions, you can always contact my
office and we uh will guide you through
whatever you have.
>> Thank you.
guys.
>> Good work, Brian.