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A. Information/Discussion/Action to canvass the election results contained in the Official Canvass of the Presidential Preference Election held on March,24, in Gila County, Arizona, and declare the results official. (Eric Mariscal)
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Hey, good morning, everyone. I'd like to call this special meeting to order. It's Wednesday, March 27th, 2024, 10:01 AM and in 18 00:00:01
we have 25 declines myself and then the globe. 00:00:08
Boardroom We have Supervisor Humphrey. 00:00:16
If you'd like to stand, and I'll leave this in the plague of allegiance. 00:00:20
Final Legion to the flag. 00:00:26
OK. Thank you. 00:00:41
OK, let's get started with Agenda item 2A. It's information, discussion and action to canvas the election results contained in the 00:00:43
official canvas of the Presidential Preference Election held on March 19th, 2024 in Hilo County, Arizona and declare the results 00:00:51
official. 00:00:58
Divine error. 00:01:05
Good morning, Supervisor Christensen, Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphrey, before you, you have the canvas of election results 00:01:07
for the Presidential Preference Election of March 19th. 00:01:11
2024 Opening up the first page, you'll see our contents, basically our precinct listing. 00:01:16
Voter turn out our total ballot summary, early ballot and our provisional Valerie Provisional Ballot, thus rejection summary 00:01:23
reports. 00:01:26
So in our precinct listing, we utilize the same precincts that we normally utilize for this for all of our elections. We had our 00:01:31
six vote centers that we had located in Payson and the Global Miami area along with our 1111 outstanding locations throughout the 00:01:37
county. Two of them because of this presidential preference election, the methodology where it's set up, we're allowed to certain 00:01:44
precincts that don't make a certain voter registration threshold. We're allowed to send those out all by mail and for this 00:01:50
election. 00:01:56
Or whispering Pines Precinct and our Roosevelt Sierra onshore precincts were deemed tabs. 00:02:03
A voter registration that was allowable so that we could send it out by mail. This allows us to save money by reducing the 00:02:10
equipment and the time we have to spend producing kits for those location sites. So let's save this a little bit of time and a 00:02:15
little bit of money in that regard. 00:02:20
Next section is our voter turn out. 00:02:27
And as I've kind of commented to a couple of you that have seen our post the election and when I spoke to a county manager, James 00:02:29
Menlov, it was pretty anemic turnout that we had. We were not extremely busy on Election Day. 00:02:36
Our final turn out was. 00:02:44
46.79%. 00:02:47
Voter turn out here in Gila County we had 23,920 voters that were eligible to participate in the Presidential preference election 00:02:49
and that is primarily the Republican and the Democratic Party members throughout Gila County. Quick summary here. You can see that 00:02:57
our all county ballots came out to 11,191 for a 46.79% turn out. 00:03:05
Our polling place number of ballots cast at our polling places county wide was 876. 00:03:14
So that was a very small turn out, but that has been the. 00:03:20
That we've been seeing in Gila County since 2008. Early voting, voting by mail has taken an extreme. 00:03:24
Umm command of the ways in which the voters vote in Yuma County. Our early ballots came out to about 10,309. 00:03:32
Or where the bulk of our turn out was about 43% there we had six provisional ballots that were cast and were verified and so that 00:03:39
shows how that ends Statewide, we finished #2. 00:03:45
In the total voter turn out like I said 46. 00:03:52
.79. 00:03:56
We were once again eclipsed by Yavapai County, who came in with 54.82%. We keep chasing them, we can't catch them, but we keep 00:03:58
chasing them. But we've been consistent, so we've finishing the top. 00:04:03
1-2 or two or three positions in Gila County for like the last 11-12 years now. So voters in Gila County, they don't mind, they go 00:04:08
out vote no matter what it is. So that's that's a good good thing for them. 00:04:14
The next is our next section is our Total Ballot Summary and this just breaks it down once again. 00:04:20
The number of registered voters that were allowed to participate in this election, 23,920. And then the breakdown and the 00:04:26
Republican 15,949 were eligible. The Democratic Party 7971. And between the two they cast 11,191 ballots. And you can see further 00:04:33
down the breakdown the Republicans 8088, Democrats 3103. Now you'll see that one number there. It says blank. What does that mean 00:04:41
exactly? Those are just simply people. 00:04:48
Voters from both parties they just designed. 00:04:56
They were not going to participate in the election because some of the comments that we saw come back to us, they were not exactly 00:04:58
pleased with the choices that they had. So in protest they simply did not cast a vote at all. And of course once again the voter 00:05:04
turn out and once again voter turn out by the party. 00:05:10
And as you can see here on the next page, page two of this report breaks down how many each candidate received. 00:05:17
The only one that was officially withdrawn from the race was Asha Hutchinson, but yet he still garnered 10 votes in Gila County, 00:05:24
even though it was posted on our web pages and on the polling locations on Election Day that he was an actual withdrawal in 00:05:30
Canada, officially from the Secretary of State's office. But he still did honor some votes. 00:05:36
And on the particular Republican Party, they had four over votes, 1300 votes, and referencing the Democratic Party, they also had 00:05:42
five over votes and 32 under votes on their particular race. 00:05:48
Or polling place ballot summary of the next section. As you can see, that is where we had our. 00:05:54
Or a small number of turn out there at the point of locations and once again breakdown by how they receive their votes. 00:06:00
The next section is the early ballot summary. 00:06:08
OK, and once again how they came and voted by mail? 00:06:11
The total that we received by mail were 10,331. We had 22 rejected for a verified for tabulation of 10,309 and the number rejected 00:06:17
were 22 for various reasons. 00:06:22
Two for empty affidavit envelopes and 15 were. These signatures did not match these the affidavits and the files that the voters 00:06:29
have. 00:06:33
Our provisional ballot summary, you had 31 that were received total. 00:06:39
25 were rejected and we had six that were verified for tabulation. 00:06:43
And the bulk of the ones this time we had 16 who were voted the wrong party. In other words, it was mostly. 00:06:47
Independence that showed up. 00:06:54
Now in some of our provisional detail report, we don't have a lot of information on that simply because that some of the locations 00:07:57
are provisional ballots were cast. 00:08:01
It would be able any of the individual knowing that they voted provisional in that particular precinct. It would be they would be 00:08:05
able to determine how that person voted because there were very few provisional votes cast. So we've redacted that information in 00:08:11
our report so that the secrecy of their ballot is maintained. 00:08:16
OK. So that is pretty much it, if you have any questions on any of the information? 00:08:22
Thank you, Eric Supervisor Humphrey. 00:08:30
I have no question. 00:08:34
Supervisor Klein, The only question I have, Eric, is these election results will be posted on our website to folks to see. Yes, 00:08:37
they will. We'll have them posted up once we get those final signatures. And so for everything you need, we'll have them posted on 00:08:42
our web. And we'll also be sending them off the Secretary of States office as soon as we get all the documentation that we need, 00:08:47
which is basically the signature from the chair. 00:08:52
OK. Thank you. Just have one thing to say on this. 00:08:58
We were. I kind of had a little bit of a problem early on in this election where we lost one of our key personnel in my 00:09:03
department. We're normally 4 strong, but we've lost a couple of people last year, went to a better position, which, no problem 00:09:09
there. We had hired somebody in, but they're brand new, my elections administrator, one of my assistants. 00:09:15
She was not able to continue on with the county for HIPAA reasons. I don't really can't say too much, but she was a significant 00:09:23
part of our operation and it was a pretty difficult blow. 00:09:28
To try and make up that ground, it's hard to train. Somebody usually takes a couple of election cycles to get an election 00:09:34
administrator that knows what they're doing and can run with a ball on their own. 00:09:38
We had somebody come in right in the middle of this election and I'm very, very grateful that she's still with us because. 00:09:44
Allowed us to be successful in our efforts. So for those department Sherry, Paul, Carroll and Denise without them with the last 00:10:20
minute kind of stepping up and helping us get that final clearance on that hurdle, we were able to provide the citizens view 00:10:26
accounting successful in the election. So just want to make sure that those people got the proper. 00:10:32
Combinations for the help that they've provided, and that's legitimate. 00:10:39
Thank you. Thank you. 00:10:44
And thank all those. 00:10:47
Myself too. That job. 00:10:50
The volunteers and people involved, it's just. 00:10:55
Very necessary to have them, and I know that. 00:10:59
You spend a lot of time training, a lot of time taking care to make sure. 00:11:03
Are done well, and so I. 00:11:08
I was impressed that no one the deceased voted. 00:11:11
Because everyone thinks that happens a lot and so. 00:11:19
I need one here that the signature does not match. 00:11:23
Did they? Did they try and? 00:11:28
Verify those signatures or yes. 00:11:32
The Recorder's office had it, you know. 00:11:36
Notified them and so they had that cure period. 00:11:38
Have them working on the weekends on this particular election due to A. 00:11:42
Issue with the recount and sort of movement of the primary election, as you all know, one of the things down there necessitated 00:11:47
the the recorders offices to be open on the weekends to go ahead and facilitate those people to hear those ballots that they had 00:11:52
issues with. 00:11:56
So they had the opportunity, but. 00:12:02
Very seldom at the end and with this particular election since it was very low turn out and it was not necessarily. 00:12:04
I don't know. It just didn't seem like a lot of people were overly interested in it. So those individuals, that may have been a 00:12:10
reason why they just didn't come in and cure those ballots like they probably should. 00:12:14
There's no way of knowing. 00:12:19
Thank you, Eric. And with that I will ask for a motion to declare the revoke official. 00:12:22
It's all moved. 00:12:31
And I will second that. OK, we have a motion in effect. 00:12:33
Aye, aye. 00:12:37
I. 00:12:40
Thank you. Thank you, Eric. Thank you very much supervisor. 00:12:44
Open Passes. 00:12:47
So call to the public. We have no one here in Payson. 00:12:50
Cathandra. 00:12:55
No, we don't have any. 00:12:57
Anyone in Globe? 00:13:00
OK I. 00:13:04
County manager report. 00:13:08
Chairman, this is Michael O'Driscoll, Deputy County Manager. The county manager, James Menlov isn't here right now, so I will wait 00:13:13
till the next meeting. Let him give the update. 00:13:18
OK, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:13:25
Yeah, I I just current events I I noticed that I got an e-mail from. 00:13:30
Representative Dave Marshall on Fossil Creek. 00:13:37
Today and it, you know, it goes on to say, well it's a two page letter and part of it is I encourage you to do all you can to 00:13:42
assist HEAL accounting to solving the public safety crisis by first advocating that the Yavapai Apache Nation in Eagle County to 00:13:49
begin negotiations to complete the project immediately. And it was my assumption that we're doing everything we can to solve that. 00:13:56
And so I'm going to be getting with him to see where he got the impression that we are not. 00:14:04
Doing all we can or that I'm not doing all that I can as a county supervisor and so that is the current event that I have for 00:14:12
today. 00:14:17
OK. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. 00:14:24
I had that same e-mail but other than that that is all I guess I would have. 00:14:28
OK, I think the origins of that e-mail, although not from myself, was from likely Gary Morris. 00:14:33
Who has? 00:14:43
F Double legislature legislators. 00:14:46
To offer a letter of support, so I need to review that letter myself. 00:14:51
As to why it's addressed necessarily to us. 00:14:57
I believe it's just intended to be a letter of support. 00:15:01
So that's all I have. And if there's nothing else, then I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you. 00:15:05
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Hey, good morning, everyone. I'd like to call this special meeting to order. It's Wednesday, March 27th, 2024, 10:01 AM and in 18 00:00:01
we have 25 declines myself and then the globe. 00:00:08
Boardroom We have Supervisor Humphrey. 00:00:16
If you'd like to stand, and I'll leave this in the plague of allegiance. 00:00:20
Final Legion to the flag. 00:00:26
OK. Thank you. 00:00:41
OK, let's get started with Agenda item 2A. It's information, discussion and action to canvas the election results contained in the 00:00:43
official canvas of the Presidential Preference Election held on March 19th, 2024 in Hilo County, Arizona and declare the results 00:00:51
official. 00:00:58
Divine error. 00:01:05
Good morning, Supervisor Christensen, Supervisor, Client, Supervisor Humphrey, before you, you have the canvas of election results 00:01:07
for the Presidential Preference Election of March 19th. 00:01:11
2024 Opening up the first page, you'll see our contents, basically our precinct listing. 00:01:16
Voter turn out our total ballot summary, early ballot and our provisional Valerie Provisional Ballot, thus rejection summary 00:01:23
reports. 00:01:26
So in our precinct listing, we utilize the same precincts that we normally utilize for this for all of our elections. We had our 00:01:31
six vote centers that we had located in Payson and the Global Miami area along with our 1111 outstanding locations throughout the 00:01:37
county. Two of them because of this presidential preference election, the methodology where it's set up, we're allowed to certain 00:01:44
precincts that don't make a certain voter registration threshold. We're allowed to send those out all by mail and for this 00:01:50
election. 00:01:56
Or whispering Pines Precinct and our Roosevelt Sierra onshore precincts were deemed tabs. 00:02:03
A voter registration that was allowable so that we could send it out by mail. This allows us to save money by reducing the 00:02:10
equipment and the time we have to spend producing kits for those location sites. So let's save this a little bit of time and a 00:02:15
little bit of money in that regard. 00:02:20
Next section is our voter turn out. 00:02:27
And as I've kind of commented to a couple of you that have seen our post the election and when I spoke to a county manager, James 00:02:29
Menlov, it was pretty anemic turnout that we had. We were not extremely busy on Election Day. 00:02:36
Our final turn out was. 00:02:44
46.79%. 00:02:47
Voter turn out here in Gila County we had 23,920 voters that were eligible to participate in the Presidential preference election 00:02:49
and that is primarily the Republican and the Democratic Party members throughout Gila County. Quick summary here. You can see that 00:02:57
our all county ballots came out to 11,191 for a 46.79% turn out. 00:03:05
Our polling place number of ballots cast at our polling places county wide was 876. 00:03:14
So that was a very small turn out, but that has been the. 00:03:20
That we've been seeing in Gila County since 2008. Early voting, voting by mail has taken an extreme. 00:03:24
Umm command of the ways in which the voters vote in Yuma County. Our early ballots came out to about 10,309. 00:03:32
Or where the bulk of our turn out was about 43% there we had six provisional ballots that were cast and were verified and so that 00:03:39
shows how that ends Statewide, we finished #2. 00:03:45
In the total voter turn out like I said 46. 00:03:52
.79. 00:03:56
We were once again eclipsed by Yavapai County, who came in with 54.82%. We keep chasing them, we can't catch them, but we keep 00:03:58
chasing them. But we've been consistent, so we've finishing the top. 00:04:03
1-2 or two or three positions in Gila County for like the last 11-12 years now. So voters in Gila County, they don't mind, they go 00:04:08
out vote no matter what it is. So that's that's a good good thing for them. 00:04:14
The next is our next section is our Total Ballot Summary and this just breaks it down once again. 00:04:20
The number of registered voters that were allowed to participate in this election, 23,920. And then the breakdown and the 00:04:26
Republican 15,949 were eligible. The Democratic Party 7971. And between the two they cast 11,191 ballots. And you can see further 00:04:33
down the breakdown the Republicans 8088, Democrats 3103. Now you'll see that one number there. It says blank. What does that mean 00:04:41
exactly? Those are just simply people. 00:04:48
Voters from both parties they just designed. 00:04:56
They were not going to participate in the election because some of the comments that we saw come back to us, they were not exactly 00:04:58
pleased with the choices that they had. So in protest they simply did not cast a vote at all. And of course once again the voter 00:05:04
turn out and once again voter turn out by the party. 00:05:10
And as you can see here on the next page, page two of this report breaks down how many each candidate received. 00:05:17
The only one that was officially withdrawn from the race was Asha Hutchinson, but yet he still garnered 10 votes in Gila County, 00:05:24
even though it was posted on our web pages and on the polling locations on Election Day that he was an actual withdrawal in 00:05:30
Canada, officially from the Secretary of State's office. But he still did honor some votes. 00:05:36
And on the particular Republican Party, they had four over votes, 1300 votes, and referencing the Democratic Party, they also had 00:05:42
five over votes and 32 under votes on their particular race. 00:05:48
Or polling place ballot summary of the next section. As you can see, that is where we had our. 00:05:54
Or a small number of turn out there at the point of locations and once again breakdown by how they receive their votes. 00:06:00
The next section is the early ballot summary. 00:06:08
OK, and once again how they came and voted by mail? 00:06:11
The total that we received by mail were 10,331. We had 22 rejected for a verified for tabulation of 10,309 and the number rejected 00:06:17
were 22 for various reasons. 00:06:22
Two for empty affidavit envelopes and 15 were. These signatures did not match these the affidavits and the files that the voters 00:06:29
have. 00:06:33
Our provisional ballot summary, you had 31 that were received total. 00:06:39
25 were rejected and we had six that were verified for tabulation. 00:06:43
And the bulk of the ones this time we had 16 who were voted the wrong party. In other words, it was mostly. 00:06:47
Independence that showed up. 00:06:54
Now in some of our provisional detail report, we don't have a lot of information on that simply because that some of the locations 00:07:57
are provisional ballots were cast. 00:08:01
It would be able any of the individual knowing that they voted provisional in that particular precinct. It would be they would be 00:08:05
able to determine how that person voted because there were very few provisional votes cast. So we've redacted that information in 00:08:11
our report so that the secrecy of their ballot is maintained. 00:08:16
OK. So that is pretty much it, if you have any questions on any of the information? 00:08:22
Thank you, Eric Supervisor Humphrey. 00:08:30
I have no question. 00:08:34
Supervisor Klein, The only question I have, Eric, is these election results will be posted on our website to folks to see. Yes, 00:08:37
they will. We'll have them posted up once we get those final signatures. And so for everything you need, we'll have them posted on 00:08:42
our web. And we'll also be sending them off the Secretary of States office as soon as we get all the documentation that we need, 00:08:47
which is basically the signature from the chair. 00:08:52
OK. Thank you. Just have one thing to say on this. 00:08:58
We were. I kind of had a little bit of a problem early on in this election where we lost one of our key personnel in my 00:09:03
department. We're normally 4 strong, but we've lost a couple of people last year, went to a better position, which, no problem 00:09:09
there. We had hired somebody in, but they're brand new, my elections administrator, one of my assistants. 00:09:15
She was not able to continue on with the county for HIPAA reasons. I don't really can't say too much, but she was a significant 00:09:23
part of our operation and it was a pretty difficult blow. 00:09:28
To try and make up that ground, it's hard to train. Somebody usually takes a couple of election cycles to get an election 00:09:34
administrator that knows what they're doing and can run with a ball on their own. 00:09:38
We had somebody come in right in the middle of this election and I'm very, very grateful that she's still with us because. 00:09:44
Allowed us to be successful in our efforts. So for those department Sherry, Paul, Carroll and Denise without them with the last 00:10:20
minute kind of stepping up and helping us get that final clearance on that hurdle, we were able to provide the citizens view 00:10:26
accounting successful in the election. So just want to make sure that those people got the proper. 00:10:32
Combinations for the help that they've provided, and that's legitimate. 00:10:39
Thank you. Thank you. 00:10:44
And thank all those. 00:10:47
Myself too. That job. 00:10:50
The volunteers and people involved, it's just. 00:10:55
Very necessary to have them, and I know that. 00:10:59
You spend a lot of time training, a lot of time taking care to make sure. 00:11:03
Are done well, and so I. 00:11:08
I was impressed that no one the deceased voted. 00:11:11
Because everyone thinks that happens a lot and so. 00:11:19
I need one here that the signature does not match. 00:11:23
Did they? Did they try and? 00:11:28
Verify those signatures or yes. 00:11:32
The Recorder's office had it, you know. 00:11:36
Notified them and so they had that cure period. 00:11:38
Have them working on the weekends on this particular election due to A. 00:11:42
Issue with the recount and sort of movement of the primary election, as you all know, one of the things down there necessitated 00:11:47
the the recorders offices to be open on the weekends to go ahead and facilitate those people to hear those ballots that they had 00:11:52
issues with. 00:11:56
So they had the opportunity, but. 00:12:02
Very seldom at the end and with this particular election since it was very low turn out and it was not necessarily. 00:12:04
I don't know. It just didn't seem like a lot of people were overly interested in it. So those individuals, that may have been a 00:12:10
reason why they just didn't come in and cure those ballots like they probably should. 00:12:14
There's no way of knowing. 00:12:19
Thank you, Eric. And with that I will ask for a motion to declare the revoke official. 00:12:22
It's all moved. 00:12:31
And I will second that. OK, we have a motion in effect. 00:12:33
Aye, aye. 00:12:37
I. 00:12:40
Thank you. Thank you, Eric. Thank you very much supervisor. 00:12:44
Open Passes. 00:12:47
So call to the public. We have no one here in Payson. 00:12:50
Cathandra. 00:12:55
No, we don't have any. 00:12:57
Anyone in Globe? 00:13:00
OK I. 00:13:04
County manager report. 00:13:08
Chairman, this is Michael O'Driscoll, Deputy County Manager. The county manager, James Menlov isn't here right now, so I will wait 00:13:13
till the next meeting. Let him give the update. 00:13:18
OK, Supervisor Humphrey. 00:13:25
Yeah, I I just current events I I noticed that I got an e-mail from. 00:13:30
Representative Dave Marshall on Fossil Creek. 00:13:37
Today and it, you know, it goes on to say, well it's a two page letter and part of it is I encourage you to do all you can to 00:13:42
assist HEAL accounting to solving the public safety crisis by first advocating that the Yavapai Apache Nation in Eagle County to 00:13:49
begin negotiations to complete the project immediately. And it was my assumption that we're doing everything we can to solve that. 00:13:56
And so I'm going to be getting with him to see where he got the impression that we are not. 00:14:04
Doing all we can or that I'm not doing all that I can as a county supervisor and so that is the current event that I have for 00:14:12
today. 00:14:17
OK. Thank you, Supervisor Klein. 00:14:24
I had that same e-mail but other than that that is all I guess I would have. 00:14:28
OK, I think the origins of that e-mail, although not from myself, was from likely Gary Morris. 00:14:33
Who has? 00:14:43
F Double legislature legislators. 00:14:46
To offer a letter of support, so I need to review that letter myself. 00:14:51
As to why it's addressed necessarily to us. 00:14:57
I believe it's just intended to be a letter of support. 00:15:01
So that's all I have. And if there's nothing else, then I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you. 00:15:05
Really like. 00:15:17
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