0:03 And then you would do a roll call.
0:06 Yeah, everybody introduced themselves around the table.
0:09 Um let's introduce ourselves, sir.
0:17 Random Russell Council Research.
0:20 Justin Jick Lone, Supervisor of Elections Office.
0:23 And we have two members of the public who have signed cards and will be speaking.
0:31 Okay, so first is April Hall Lloyd.
0:35 And state your name and address for the record, please.
0:50 Just make sure to push the button on there.
0:56 My name is April Hall Lloyd.
0:58 My address is on file.
1:00 I am here to speak about the Duval County elections officials.
1:05 Um vote by mail renewal.
1:08 We so for the people that voted in 2024, their vote by mail has expired, and it won't be renewed unless they make action to do so.
1:22 Of the 88,579 Duval County voters who signed up for vote by mail in 2024, only 22,000 have submitted a new request.
1:35 As you know, Florida's law now requires that voters submit a new vote by mail request for every general election cycle.
1:43 Previous vote by mail requests expired after new November 2024 election and will expire again December 31st.
1:52 Anyone planning to vote by mail in the 2027 municipal elections must re-enroll before February 2025, February 2025, 2027.
2:05 That is why the coalition of civil rights groups is urging the Duval County Supervisor of Elections to mail renewed renewal notices to every voter previously enrolled.
2:18 In the Tampa Bay region, Sarasota has managed to maintain their vote by mail level as it was in 2024, with the spokesperson for them attributing that to physical vote by mail renewal notices being sent to all voters.
2:37 After the local civil rights groups pressed in 2022, Duvall's then supervisor of elections mailed 105 renewal notices in January 2023.
2:50 And a few short months later in April, voters were enrolled.
2:55 50,000 voters were re enrolled.
2:59 Current supervisor of elections, Jerry Holland is no longer planning to send physical notices.
3:05 Instead, he has advised us he's relying on texts and emails.
3:10 But many voters, especially our seniors, are skeptical of digital outreach as a potential scam.
3:18 Now is not the time to reduce outreach.
3:21 We urge Supervisor Holland to mail renewal notices to all previously enrolled voters and consider sending out a notice to every voter, or at least the ones over the age of 65 for both the 2026 and 2027 election.
3:50 Do we discuss this now or do we um as we are republic?
3:56 Generally for public caller.
4:42 We do not have a report.
4:48 Um we can't approve the minutes.
4:50 Is there any discussion of the minutes, however, that we could do?
5:01 Uh it it's really worthwhile that you send these out, um, and provide them.
5:08 Um, and I guess you're giving the SOE updates, all right.
5:16 Uh Justin Jicalone, Chief Deputy Supervisor of Elections.
5:19 Uh good m afternoon, everybody.
5:21 Uh, that has shown up.
5:23 Uh a couple of things to kind of give you some numbers as we always do.
5:26 Um this April actually, uh the number she has, we act as of this morning we're up to 24,094 uh total vote by mail requests.
5:36 Uh domestic requests are at twenty-two thousand three fifty nine with the Uacaba, which is our uniform and overseas voters is at uh seventeen hundred and thirty-five on there.
5:46 Uh again, our big push for uh vote by mail uh to renew was used uh by phone calls and email uh to drive them to kind of narrow to those that did vote like she mentioned and stuff in 24.
6:02 Um it doubled the amount at that time and at this time this is kind of where we're set from here for the primary.
6:09 Um sure of any other uh large scale um outreach.
6:17 Uh we do do social media and other uh uh lines of outreach that way, uh when it comes to vote by mail as well as registration updating signature, things like that.
6:28 Can I ask you in response to Ms.
6:31 If we if you did extra outreach, just um while we mail outreach to the seniors, no idea.
6:48 I I don't know that number off the top of my head.
6:53 Do you know anything about the traveler's scenes?
7:01 Oh no, for when it comes to the demographics of age groups and stuff, I do not put on record.
7:08 Just a number but that would be good to understand the problem.
7:22 Uh total voters that we have currently um is six hundred and forty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-six voters, active voters.
7:29 Uh the breakdown uh we have uh Republicans have two hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine registered voters, active voters.
7:37 Democrats are at two hundred and forty one thousand one twenty-two.
7:40 The non-party affiliate uh voters are 142,309, and all other parties is total is 23,756 on there.
7:51 Uh couple things when it comes to some recent legislation.
7:55 Uh House Bill 991 uh was approved by the legislators and stuff.
8:00 Most of the stuff that comes to actual elections, election day stuff hits j uh sorry, January first, 2027.
8:07 Uh there was some things that impacted candidate and qualifying stuff that was uh put in place as soon as the governor signed, which we experienced with this round of qualifying that just closed um from there.
8:20 The other bill that uh is close to uh Duval County was House Bill for s HB 461.
8:27 This is the volunteer student uh poll worker uh legislation that um uh play our borough and Ion Michael uh sponsored.
8:39 Uh this bill has been approved.
8:41 It is on the governor's desk waiting for signature.
8:44 So this would just basically allow uh students to claim community service hours by serving in the votes from there.
8:51 Currently we cannot do apply statute.
8:55 Has the SOE done anything to implement it?
8:58 When is the exact day?
9:00 The governor has to sign it.
9:02 So once the governor signs it, yes, once the governor signs it, it's in it it's active.
9:06 We are ready to push um outreach for that.
9:11 Um we're just waiting for the signature and for it to become law.
9:14 If it doesn't come, if it's not signed by July one, I believe it goes into effect after that.
9:18 So that's we come through.
9:21 So how I mean thinking as a poll worker and seeing the whole training apparatus that's been set up.
9:29 How how would you integrate students into that?
9:33 We would just add them up like we would if um we do uh standby.
9:29 Uh poll workers from there.
9:43 So they go through the training and then they just be ready to where they go.
9:52 Um when it comes to the primary election, couple of things that are gonna take place.
10:00 There's legislation currently going through the city council for polling place and a couple precinct boundary changes.
10:05 Um the precinct boundary changes will take us from a hundred and sixty precincts down to a hundred and fifty nine precincts.
10:11 Uh the polling place um changes.
10:14 Uh there are two temporary changes due to construction um at two of the uh facilities that are being used.
10:21 Uh we are unsure when that facilities will be back available, but we're hoping before the twenty seven elections, if not sooner.
10:28 Uh but for the primary they will be moved to another location.
10:31 All voters uh that are affected by either change a polling place or the precinct boundary change will be notified.
10:37 Uh we send out voter information cards with the update on it um and stuff, and we'll also we'll put a press release out, push on social media and things like that to uh notify voters of that.
10:47 That uh ordinance that's going through is twenty twenty six-four four six.
10:53 The um when you send out the new voter cards, I mean there's a lot in a little space.
10:59 Is there also a cover letter that says, No, ma'am.
11:03 There's no cover letter 'cause it's a trifold.
11:05 Um like this and stuff like that.
11:08 Uh we are working with the vendor to basically on it to have bold lettering that says polling place change so that they kind of catch it on just think it's just a information.
11:20 We're trying to get that worked into it before it's mailed.
11:23 I is there any way that the vendor can actually put the new address all in place?
11:28 Yes, ma'am, it's part of the the information card.
11:35 Yes, you can use the poll worker.
11:40 Disappointed voters.
11:43 Uh the early voting days and times we're at twenty four early voting sites for the primary, like we were in 2024.
11:49 Uh the dates are August 7th, which is which is a Friday and it goes through August 16th.
11:54 The voting hours are 10 a.m.
11:56 to six PM each day.
11:58 Uh sample ballots are scheduled to go out July twenty-ninth to uh all registered voters.
12:05 They either will be mailed or emailed.
12:08 That decision is made by the voter themselves.
12:12 We have about ninety something thousand that are emailed each election.
12:17 On top of the so take that around so about five hundred and thirty something thousand uh mail.
12:24 Uh there will be two new I voted stickers.
12:27 Uh we have able to add an I voted sticker to people who vote by mail.
12:44 Um they want that sticker and we were able to accommodate that now we believe.
12:50 So that vendor is trying to get those to us, so we're gonna go from there.
12:53 The other I voted sticker is is geared towards uh first time voters.
12:59 So as a poll worker, um some places do make it a little bit big when they find out.
13:05 So you'll have a sticker to provide them so they'll know that no, this was the first time that they those are very popular.
13:14 So uh those are things going from that side of things.
13:18 Um other than that, we are gearing up for the election.
13:22 Uh poll worker training has kicked off online.
13:25 Uh in labs start uh July sixth, I believe.
13:32 Um book closings July twentieth again for the primary election.
13:37 What affects uh Duval County and the state of Florida is we are closed primary state.
13:41 So if you have a party change, you gotta get in before that date.
13:44 Um, in order to successfully get your party change before for the primary election.
13:50 Um equipment distribution and all that stuff is ongoing right now.
13:55 Our seasonal stuff.
13:56 Our call center will start uh the end of July, July twenty second.
13:59 So they'll be in there, so we'll have you full blown full like fully operational July 22nd.
14:06 The election office in the center downtown.
14:09 Um the museum has wrapped up.
13:59 Uh we know some of y'all weren't there.
14:13 Um at the last meeting, uh, would encourage y'all to go back out.
14:17 It has fully completed and it looks very, very well done.
14:22 Um a lot of effort went into that.
14:25 Um putting that together and everything.
14:30 And that's it, for any questions.
14:33 Well, I have a comment which I wanted to um deeply thank the supervisors to make the change in early voting so that there's a setting.
14:44 So there's two summaries.
14:53 And I know it makes it harder for the people who have to take the machines and move them to the precinct.
15:00 So I appreciate that, but for voters it's it's much, much better and and I hope that you will tell the supervisor.
15:13 Um I did have a quick question.
15:16 You mentioned um the voter chooses whether or not they get um uh a sample ballot by email or by mail.
15:25 So that they make that choice ahead of time.
15:28 Yeah, you do that on your uh application.
15:33 And also another comment is I don't know if you've done with as a poll worker, have taken the training, the online training.
15:42 What do you think about that?
15:44 Um it's it's mostly pretty good.
15:47 I like the way that is interactive.
15:50 Um there's just a few little rough spots.
15:55 Like I had to take the made major section twice, which was probably a good thing from a learning point of view, but just because I didn't click the little X and therefore I kept getting emails saying uh please complete your online training, and I already had completed it.
16:13 Um so there are a few bugs, but what was your experience?
16:19 I didn't notice that.
16:20 Um I'm I'm pretty well versed in training.
16:24 I did that for uh a number of years with the federal government.
16:28 And um I was honestly with the the logistics of it, the layout, the the I mean how the inner interaction with the website, I was very impressed.
16:39 I thought it was uh laid out very well.
16:42 It was very uh uh I I'll be honest with you, when I was told about it, I wasn't impressed.
16:47 I thought, oh god, I I wasn't looking forward to it.
16:52 But I went through it and I even uh, you know, kind of looked at some of the details as far as the statutes that were quoted, like I think 104.031 or something like that.
17:06 And you know, th I didn't see any mistakes.
17:09 Um it it it kept my interest and I actually liked it better than when I used to take the in-person training.
17:20 Um that that's what surprised me.
17:23 I I got a lot more out of it because I could go back and you know, look look at things previous and um I I was really impressed.
17:35 I I didn't notice that because I'm sort of uh I I sort of am attuned to detail.
17:42 So when it says click the X, you know, I I I look at all those details.
17:48 So I I didn't I I probably wouldn't have made that mistake just because of my nature, but um, uh you know that that may be something to look at, but I I didn't notice that because I didn't fall into that.
18:02 But uh other than that, I was really impressed with it, I really was.
18:06 It's great to have an expert opinion of it.
18:12 Um I think that'll be appreciated.
18:16 You know, that uh you'll enjoy relaying that.
18:25 Um, I guess we should find out what the old business is, even though we can.
18:29 I think there was one thing that was talked about.
18:43 Yeah, so the uh I reached out to Colleen and uh Brandon to make sure that they had a response.
18:51 Um the question came up at the last meeting.
18:54 Can an elected official serve on the EDAP?
18:57 That's not who's elected not to see council seat and you want to provide that.
19:04 So there are a couple of places in the code that kind of like imply this.
19:10 Um but if you are on the city council, the code says that members of council shall not hold any other public office except as notary public, nor shall any member of the council be an employee of the city or any of its independent agencies except for certificated employees of the Duval County School Board.
19:27 And so that's just if you are serving as a city council member.
19:30 If you are a school board member, it says that members shall not hold any other public office or public employment except as notary public, member of the armed services or federal office or employment, so similar to uh council members.
19:44 Um then separately it says that um with regard to any border commission, um a member of any border commission can hold another non-elective public office or non-elective position in consolidated government.
19:56 So we took that to mean that, you know, if you're a city council member or you are a school board member, you wouldn't be able to.
20:03 Um it doesn't say anything about if you're actively running for office.
20:07 Um but if you are saying on the election advisory panel and that case you would be able to serve on other non-elected boards and commission.
20:16 So I would take that to mean like a CPAC or something else.
20:19 Granted, I'm not an attorney, so I cannot like, but based on what it says here, um that that's kind of what we determined was the response to that question.
20:28 Um so that is only um I cannot remember specifically who raised the question.
20:34 I can't remember if it was an attendee or if it was somebody actively on the panel.
20:38 Do you remember who raised it?
20:39 It was a group of members we were talking and stuff.
20:42 Um person that was uh there public uh had interest in what they were running for city council and asked, could they actually serve the vote if they voting it up in and stuff if there is a member of the APU who is running for the office right now?
21:08 Um I I guess I'm not really sure why how we go about that process.
21:15 We don't go I don't think on the mail or anything on the end their address or anything.
21:18 No, they didn't speak as a public comment.
21:20 I don't mean the member of the public, but the person who's on the EA.
21:23 Oh yes, yeah, they'll be notified if they are elected they will be notified, from my understanding.
21:29 So we can't do any new business, but I guess we wouldn't know what we do.
21:37 Um I that is not me unfortunately to determine um since I'm just facilitating the meeting.
21:47 Um then I think we always try to get an update on where we are, what we expired, and obviously.
22:01 He still showed up on the list, so I think we didn't have to end I think he serves until someone's appointed.
22:06 And his film move was by the summer took it.
22:14 For the makers of the point, yes.
22:25 I think that's the day of the next meeting.
22:29 We can add the public comments.
22:39 And thanks to the people who attended.
22:47 Brandon, can you validate parking tickets?
22:51 So I was trying to tell people who represent this.