A meeting of the Duval County Supervisor of Elections Advisory Board (EAP) was held on May 7, 2026, beginning with a guided tour of the Election Center followed by a board business meeting. The tour showcased the facility's operations, including the sample precinct room, tabulation room, call center, future election museum, and vote-by-mail processing center. The business meeting covered updates on legislation, voter roll maintenance, polling place changes, early voting schedules, petition verification, board vacancies, and the countywide student voter registration drive.
So part of the meeting today was to do a tour of our election center. But now it's only been how many tours have you done? It doesn't matter, so I might say that we're staffing. I was gonna let you give the chores available. But uh we wanted to take you through. Um we are a couple things are happening. One is we just did a renovation, a lot of the floorings, we added some other things, but part of what we were hoping to be done by this point, but it hasn't. The artwork and everything is done, the research, everything, but our elections museum for Duval County uh has not started and won't be done until probably y'all get a guess, June. In the May June. Okay. Possibly, yeah. Hopefully, in the newsletter that it was gonna be ready when we came for training. Well, that was we may have to push training off. No, but that's the goal. And uh, the education tangi, uh, Jennifer and Hallie has done a lot of work on the on the museum. I'm looking forward to it. And uh, so anyway, we won't see the museum today. You'll see where it's going. But um, but anyway, we always start our tours here uh for those, and Ed's another one. How many tours you've been on? Several. If I skip or miss anything, please y'all gladness, you know. But y'all can have a seat for a second. Um basically what we start our tours here, and we have had somewhere around 80 different countries also come and tour the election center to see how we do elections in Duval County and how uh they've toured other places in other states, how we do it differently. You know, one thing that's interesting is that states are very inconsistent when it comes to elections. Uh there is no requirement from state to state to do it any consistent way, and so uh basically that's the uh the interesting thing is we get visitors is how different it may be done here versus other states. Uh a couple things that we always point out when you come and start here, is one is our map. The map is pins of all the people who have come from different countries. So that just shows where in the world they've come from. Uh we started at the last tour of mapping the ones that were actually from the United States. It's the first ones. Yeah. So they we said, shoot, we don't have a pin in the United States, and so we let them that was touring it, uh, pin the United States. But blue is once, white is twice, and red is three times that they have come. So we're proud of uh being able to tour that. The other is the picture of this up here on the wall. That is uh Duval County's only tied race. It was in Neptune Beach. Uh, it was between Richard Arthur and Rory Dunan. Uh it came down to a tie. Uh and state law says when it is a tie in a race. Now that's after we've done a recount, you know, everything's been double checked, everything's there. It is an actual tie. The state law says you must have a game of chance in order to determine the winner. You know, so the game of chance, and those who know me, it couldn't just be real quick, because we had all the supporters and the media there for the historical tide race. So the way it started, in fact, uh Roy was coming in this morning on the radio when we were both on. Is the way we started it was uh, and the members that are up there is on the right is the Canvasine Board judge, uh County Judge. Uh the council member representing at that time was Doal Carter and myself, and that's Richard Arthur, who ended up winning. But the way we started the game of chance was the county judge uh first pulled a name out of the hat to say who starts this process. And so Rory's name was picked first.