[0:01] All right. We will call this meeting of the election board

[0:06] to do several things including but not limited to the certification of the

[0:11] recent election.

[0:14] We have some old business to start with. Approval of minutes.

[0:21] And

[0:26] I found one error on the

[0:33] February 24th meeting one on the third page

[0:37] and Jack confirmed that that

[0:42] I did make a motion to accept but there was no indication after that was there a

[0:46] second? Was it passed? Was it died? Jack, you you just looked that up and

[0:51] what did you find out? >> Um

[0:53] So the second to that motion was made by Gretchen and Atling and then that motion

[0:58] passed unanimously. >> Okay.

[1:00] » Um So the two of us were having a

[1:02] discussion. I wrote that in on the one that you're going to sign. So

[1:07] he just advised that you read that just into the record

[1:11] and then when you approve those, you make your motion to approve them with

[1:14] that amendment. >> Okay.

[1:17] What should we add in this?

[1:23] Just from the I imagine just from here

[1:26] » Mhm. >> to there.

[1:28] » Okay.

[1:31] I will make a motion that we approve

[1:36] I will make a motion that we approve the amendment

[1:40] on the February 24th

[1:46] minutes. >> Okay. It's been moved. Do we have a

[1:49] second? >> Second.

[1:50] » Moved and seconded. All in favor? >> I.

[1:52] » I. >> Okay. Passed unanimously.

[1:56] Otherwise, I think that one is okay.

[2:04] Okay.

[2:06] What you tell people about the second

[2:11] It's the January 30th meeting.

[2:15] » Those minutes just went along with um since they were included in your

[2:20] packet from February. >> Mhm.

[2:22] » And then you have the order and then your next minutes are approved or behind

[2:26] that order from March 20th. >> Okay.

[2:34] » So, what is the one for January 30th that says

[2:37] » They were included in your packet, so I just put them in.

[2:40] » Okay. >> from February 24th.

[2:42] » Okay. But hadn't that been approved yet?

[2:44] » They have already been approved. >> Oh, they have. Okay.

[2:46] » They were approved at the previous meeting.

[2:47] » Got you. Okay. >> Yeah.

[2:49] » Okay. And

[2:51] All right. >> And then your order from February uh

[2:55] 24th and then behind that is your minutes

[2:58] from March that need to be approved.

[3:01] » Okay.

[3:04] That'll work. All right.

[3:17] » This says

[3:20] January 30th.

[3:25] I don't see one >> Behind that.

[3:28] » The March 20th one? >> Yeah.

[3:33] » Keep going. That's the one. >> Oh, I see.

[3:40] » Okay.

[4:02] » I believe it was the March 20th. Main thing was to uh

[4:05] » Yes. >> deal with the court order planning.

[4:09] » Yes.

[4:12] It looks like it's good. >> Okay.

[4:17] I'm going to see a motion to accept the written

[4:20] » I will enter a motion to accept the

[4:25] minutes for the meeting on March 20th, 2026.

[4:30] » Second. It's moved and seconded. All in favor?

[4:32] » Aye. >> Aye.

[4:37] » And that's all for the minutes, isn't it, Jack?

[4:39] » Yes. >> Okay.

[4:41] All right. Now,

[4:46] of course, we are here to do the certification on

[4:51] the election of 10 days ago. It is now 12:06 p.m. We have waited the

[4:57] statutory time till noon and a few minutes after.

[5:01] And I understand we did receive one ballot.

[5:05] Has it been checked for legality? And it is

[5:08] Okay. Okay.

[5:14] I would entertain a motion to accept the ballot and enter with the count.

[5:19] » Um I will uh I will enter a motion to accept the ballot.

[5:24] » Okay. >> Second.

[5:25] » Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor?

[5:26] » Aye. >> Okay.

[5:28] Take that. All right. Now, for the main work of the day.

[5:34] Gear up. >> Um this is for certification of the 2026

[5:41] primary election.

[5:48] The Vigo County Election Board having met on Do I need to read this on May

[5:52] 15th to determine eligibility

[6:00] Is this all I need? >> Yeah.

[6:03] » Okay. Okay. So, I don't need to read all this

[6:07] stuff. >> No, ma'am.

[6:07] » Okay. That's for after.

[6:10] » Okay. >> Okay, I got it.

[6:12] All right. Um we are going to We have Um let's see.

[6:20] five, six

[6:24] Um >> We have five minutes.

[6:30] provisional >> yeah, that we are going to address.

[6:32] » Right. >> Do we have those?

[6:35] This is >> No.

[6:38] » Okay.

[6:46] » Okay.

[6:59] » Okay.

[7:13] » Um both of those were If you have

[7:17] mailing ballots that did not have signatures on them and they came back.

[7:21] » Mhm. >> And so, we had to send an affidavit to

[7:23] those voters to sign and we just turned had one to put it

[7:27] back.

[7:31] » But the other one did not? >> The other one did

[7:34] Okay.

[7:43] It's the second um

[7:45] voter voter

[7:47] um did not come to the second voter.

[7:52] » Voters number one and two on the list here?

[7:55] » I'm actually I'm sorry, on the list in front of you guys

[7:58] » Yeah. >> they are voters number four and five.

[8:01] » Okay. >> So, number four

[8:02] » Number four is number four is Brenda and they are good

[8:06] to go. Number five is >> Okay.

[8:12] » And then I apologize we didn't know what orders they were going in.

[8:14] » Yeah. >> That's under control. As long as we can

[8:16] identify them. >> Yep.

[8:21] That's fine.

[8:25] » All right, so that leaves voters one, two, and three.

[8:29] » and three. >> Okay.

[8:30] » And are they in the other black folder?

[8:42] » So, the first one in the black folder is our voter number three.

[8:46] » Yeah. >> Okay.

[8:50] » Voter did fill out his petition at the only state

[8:54] of this What is the address and the

[8:58] 2024. However, he's rejected by address

[9:03] not in the register. Checked by name

[9:06] and the name that comes up um for this

[9:10] the closest in the county in another county in the area.

[9:14] And um Here is the

[9:17] cancel of that county but it's never a registered voter here.

[9:25] » Any discussion on this one? >> No.

[9:28] » Okay. Okay.

[9:31] So, I'll make a motion on this.

[9:39] » Okay.

[9:44] » Well, at this point they're not registered anymore.

[9:47] They didn't even get the notice. >> Okay.

[9:50] I'll make a motion to deny. >> Second.

[9:56] Moving second to deny voter number one.

[10:00] » Number three. >> me. Excuse me. Number three. I got it

[10:03] backwards. Yes.

[10:04] Uh all in favor? I I. Opposed?

[10:08] Unanimous on that. Okay.

[10:19] » And that is number one. >> Okay.

[10:23] Okay.

[10:29] » On the fourth page of the list, it would be the ones right after the affidavit.

[10:34] Mhm. And the fourth chapter prior to that

[10:37] address and this is supposed to be in here, but

[10:41] also the status is showing on which could be rejected.

[10:46] » Mhm. >> On the next page you can see

[10:49] where they come into it. They get registered to vote prior to the

[10:54] 2004 election. How do we handle the age

[10:58] limit at that time? Uh you would have been born before 2006

[11:04] back in 2004. Okay, and then they registered

[11:07] and they were born before 2007. Same person later.

[11:12] Same one that was rejected for ballot and was re-registered.

[11:16] Which is the first See the rejected letter

[11:21] located in there with the notice of disqualification file

[11:25] on page number four. And they never

[11:28] registered again. At this point the filing is still

[11:33] rejected and not registered to vote.

[11:39] » Break that and dry as far as I want to concern.

[11:41] » Yep.

[11:45] I will motion that we deny this ballot.

[11:49] » Second. >> Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye.

[11:54] Can you hear that one? >> I will follow up with that voter then to

[11:59] tell them that they can vote twice.

[12:03] » If they feel like going out and explaining again, explaining to get the

[12:06] next registration. >> Okay.

[12:07] » Same same thing as the other ones that we got back from the polls that came in.

[12:12] Where they could do their updates to their name or their

[12:15] address. And that's the only place that that comes back to us.

[12:19] We also received probably similar to the other ones. And there's

[12:23] 12 of those that we could not

[12:27] do anything with.

[12:30] The signing or

[12:32] the people in that address, and we tried to send something to all those folks

[12:37] and let them know what they did to help.

[12:41] And then we do with that particular most of the

[12:44] letters were wrong. >> Very good.

[12:47] Okay. >> The last one on there

[12:50] is you turn to

[12:52] page three.

[12:56] Which they did. Two push two pages to be

[12:59] to the day. >> What about

[13:01] » Even though this building is showing that it's canceled here, we still keep

[13:06] all the canceled registrations, the hard copies of them.

[13:11] » The hard copies of them. >> Uh we keep those for five years just in

[13:15] the case of this instance. Uh

[13:18] turn to the next page and you can see the form. These counties

[13:22] online filed today. This particular one came

[13:25] from Bay Allen.

[13:28] Bay Allen. They never had this people voting

[13:33] the same name, same social security number, same date

[13:37] of birth. And the state requested us to

[13:40] make sure that we can't put both of them in because they had changed.

[13:45] You know, the outcome. As it turns out,

[13:49] he had to vote. So, he could vote for

[13:53] the same last name, the same address. address.

[13:57] We explained to him we would check into it.

[14:00] And when we checked into it the following day, they were

[14:03] They didn't need the office, driver's license, or date of birth, which is

[14:06] unfortunate. From the branch perspective, they never

[14:09] used the driver's license. They just used the social security number.

[14:13] And I was able to look online at this one that is in

[14:18] Fayette County. But they didn't check the driver's

[14:20] license number on there. That's the issue.

[14:23] And both of these voters are

[14:27] and

[14:29] gentleman that I met in Fayette County. Uh

[14:32] unfortunately, they did have the same date of birth and they had the last four

[14:36] numbers of the social security number. And the exact same name.

[14:40] So, um in our opinion, this is two people.

[14:44] He still lives here. He knows he lives here. He knows it.

[14:47] Um

[14:49] Unfortunately, we couldn't do anything but on election day to change anything.

[14:55] We couldn't change anything. The system's locked down, obviously, for

[14:58] the next 50 minutes. It couldn't change it anyway.

[15:02] And if we were to change it, then we would have also messed up that voter in

[15:05] Fayette County. So, it will all be taken care of.

[15:10] We won't be able to register him again. He'll be on the registered voters

[15:14] list. >> So, he'll be okay for the general

[15:17] election in the west. >> all of that will be fine.

[15:21] We had another situation where we had actually

[15:53] Right. >> Right.

[16:08] » And he was okay with that? >> Well, he didn't

[16:11] » Had he responded? Okay.

[16:15] I will motion that we accept this ballot as given to us, the explanation by voter

[16:23] registration. >> Second.

[16:25] » Moved and seconded. All in favor? >> I.

[16:28] » And that one is accepted. >> And that's all we have.

[16:32] » That's it. >> That's great.

[16:34] » And then >> Weren't they pretty?

[16:35] » We did get one

[16:39] one military. And you said that the

[16:43] the postmark was okay on the military? >> So, for clarification on voters numbered

[16:49] four and five on our list, did we need to approve or deny either

[16:55] one of those because we did not take any action?

[16:58] » We did. We did approve it. And we have we denied

[17:04] the number five. >> Okay. I'm sorry, I didn't hear the

[17:06] motion made.

[17:12] » All righty. So, now >> Do we need to pause? Okay. We just need

[17:17] to pause while we uh do the military.

[17:23] » Yeah, that one ballot asked. >> Okay.

[17:26] » And two provisionals and one >> Okay.

[17:29] » All right. All right, we are in recess until

[17:34] Jen does that long job. >> Okay.

[17:41] » Okay, we are reconvened after the brief but necessary delay.

[17:47] And the delay added three more ballots to the count. Is that correct?

[17:54] And this is the official results of the election.

[17:58] And I will entertain a motion to accept them as published.

[18:02] » I make the motion to accept the results as we received those today.

[18:07] » I second. >> Okay.

[18:10] Moved and seconded. All in favor? >> Aye.

[18:13] » And so moved. Is there any other new business we need to take care of?

[18:18] We We will find out, of course. >> Okay, the Vigo County Election Board

[18:23] having met on May 15th, 2026 to determine eligibility of any provisional

[18:29] votes and to review a final canvas of election results hereby certifies the

[18:34] 2026 primary election results. The board hereby instructs the Vigo County Clerk's

[18:40] office to transmit any necessary reports to the Indiana Election Division.

[18:45] So ordered this the 15th day of May,

[18:49] 2026. >> Okay.

[19:00] I'd like to add personal note on this. I want to thank all the people of the

[19:04] courthouse and at the various voting centers for the hard work

[19:07] they put in to make this election come off as smoothly as it did.

[19:12] Uh we didn't have to chase anybody out due to the 50-ft rule or anything like

[19:16] that. It It was a good election with a fairly good

[19:20] turnout.

[19:25] I need a motion to adjourn. >> I motion that we adjourn.

[19:29] » Second. >> Who will second? All in favor?

[19:31] » I. >> I. We stand adjourned at 1:07.

Vigo County Election Board Meeting 5/15/26

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