Census, Redistricting, and Elections on October 2, 2026

0:48 MORNING EVERYONE.

0:50 HAPPY FRIDAY.

0:51 FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS RUTI

0:52 LOUIJEUNE AT LARGE CITY

0:54 COUNCILOR AND I AM THE CHAIR

0:55 OF THE BOSTON CITY

0:56 COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON CENSUS

0:57 REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS.

0:58 TODAY IS OCTOBER 2ND, 2026 AND

1:01 THE EXACT TIME IS 10:07 A.M..

1:04 THIS HEARING IS BEING RECORDED.

1:06 IT IS ALSO BEING LIVE

1:08 STREAMED@BOSTON.GOV.

1:08 FORWARD SLASH CITY COUNCIL DASH

1:11 TV AND BROADCAST ON IT'S

1:13 CHANNEL EIGHT RCN CHANNEL 82

1:16 FIOS CHANNEL 964.

1:18 OUR WRITTEN COMMENTS MAY BE

1:19 SENT TO THE COMMITTEE EMAIL AT

1:21 SEEK CENSUS@BOSTON.GOV.

1:23 AND WE MADE A PART OF THE

1:25 RECORD AND AVAILABLE TO ALL

1:26 COUNCILORS PUBLIC TESTIMONY

1:28 WILL TAKE WILL BE TAKEN AT THE

1:29 END OF THIS HEARING.

1:31 INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED ON

1:32 IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY

1:34 SIGNED UP AND WILL HAVE TWO

1:35 MINUTES TO TESTIFY.

1:36 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN

1:38 TESTIFYING IN PERSON, PLEASE

1:39 ADD YOUR NAME TO THE SIGN UP

1:41 SHEET NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE

1:42 CHAMBER.

1:42 IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO TESTIFY

1:43 VIRTUALLY, PLEASE EMAIL OUR

1:45 CENTRAL STAFF LIAISON SHANE

1:47 PACK AT SHANE DOT PACK AT

1:49 BOSTON DOT GOD FOR THE LINK AND

1:51 ADD YOUR NAME AND YOUR NAME

1:52 WILL BE ADDED TO THE LIST.

1:53 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

1:54 NUMBER 0183.

1:56 ORDER FOR A HEARING REGARDING

1:57 VOTER ACCESSIBILITY AND

1:58 ELECTION PREPAREDNESS.

1:59 THIS MATTER IS SPONSORED BY

2:00 MYSELF AND COUNCILOR ENRIQUE

2:02 JAPAN AND IS REFERRED TO THE

2:04 COMMITTEE ON JANUARY 28TH, 2026

2:06 .

2:06 THIS ALSO INCLUDES DOCKET

2:08 NUMBER 1805 RESOLUTION IN

2:11 SUPPORT OF QUESTION FOUR TO US

2:13 TO ESTABLISH ELECTION DAY VOTER

2:14 REGISTRATION IN MASSACHUSETTS.

2:16 THIS MATTER IS SPONSORED BY

2:17 MYSELF AND COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:18 LIZ BREADON AND IT WAS REFERRED

2:20 TO THE COMMITTEE ON SEPTEMBER

2:21 22ND, 2023 2026.

2:23 TODAY I'M JOINED BY MY

2:25 COLLEAGUES IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL

2:26 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

2:27 I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR

2:28 BEING HERE.

2:29 UM THIS THERE IS UH UH TOPIC

2:33 THAT IS SINCERELY IMPORTANT TO

2:35 UPHOLDING OUR DEMOCRACY AND

2:36 THAT'S MAKING SURE THAT VOTING

2:38 IS ACCESSIBLE AND THAT WE'RE

2:40 PREPARED AS A CITY WHEN

2:41 ELECTION TIME COMES AROUND AND

2:42 THAT WE'RE MAKING SURE WE'RE

2:43 DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO DRAW

2:44 MORE PEOPLE INTO OUR DEMOCRATIC

2:46 PROCESS.

2:48 AS SOMEONE WHO GREW UP IN THE

2:49 CITY GOING TO THE POLLS WITH MY

2:51 DAD LATER MYSELF BECOMING A

2:52 LAWYER WHO WORKED ON ELECTIONS

2:54 ,IT IS DEEPLY IMPORTANT TO

2:56 ME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE UH,

2:57 MAKING SURE THAT RESIDENTS

2:58 AROUND THE CITY CAN ACCESS

3:01 VOTING.

3:01 VOTING ISN'T GOING TO SOLVE ALL

3:02 OF OUR PROBLEMS BUT IT IS GOING

3:04 IT IS DEFINITELY A PART OF THE

3:05 SOLUTION.

3:05 SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU

3:06 FOR BEING HERE FOR THE ADVOCACY

3:08 THAT YOU DO.

3:09 I IN ADDITION TO TALKING ABOUT

3:10 GENERAL ELECTION PREPAREDNESS

3:11 AND WHAT THE CITY OF BOSTON CAN

3:12 BE DOING BETTER TO PREPARE FOR

3:14 ELECTIONS OR DRAW PEOPLE OUT

3:15 FOR ELECTIONS UH, DO THE

3:17 EVERYDAY WORK OF DEMOCRACY.

3:19 I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

3:22 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT QUESTION

3:24 FOUR WHICH IS UH, ELECTION DAY

3:26 VOTER REGISTRATION WHICH MANY

3:27 OF YOU ADVOCATES HAVE BEEN

3:29 FIGHTING FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

3:31 WE ARE BEHIND WHEN IT COMES TO

3:32 STATES WHO HAVE, UH SAME-DAY

3:34 VOTER REGISTRATION.

3:35 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

3:36 DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE

3:37 DEMOCRACY MORE ACCESSIBLE TO

3:38 THOSE WHO ARE TRANSIENT.

3:40 WE KNOW THAT VOTERS OF COLOR,

3:41 UH, VOTER OF COLOR

3:43 PARTICIPATION INCREASES WHEN WE

3:44 HAVE ELECTION DAY VOTER

3:46 REGISTRATION.

3:46 AND SO I'M EXCITED FOR THIS

3:48 CONVERSATION.

3:49 I'M EXCITED FOR YOU TO FOR

3:50 OTHERS FOR ADVOCACY.

3:51 I'M EXCITED TO HEAR FROM THE

3:53 ADMINISTRATION AND I WANT TO

3:54 THANK OUR OWN ALUM OF THE CITY

3:57 COUNCIL CHAMBER, KERRY JORDAN.

3:58 FOR HIS NEW ROLE.

4:00 LEADING THE WORK OF THE

4:01 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.

4:02 SO I'M EXCITED TO HEAR FROM THE

4:04 ADMINISTRATION AND THE REASON

4:05 WHY, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HAVE

4:07 AN ADVOCATE PANEL GO FIRST

4:07 BECAUSE I DO THINK THAT THERE

4:09 CAN SOMETIMES BE MORE OF A

4:10 FEEDBACK LOOP BETWEEN HEARING

4:11 FROM WHAT THE ADVOCATES SAY.

4:13 WHAT WE CAN BE DOING BETTER AND

4:14 HAVING THE ADMINISTRATION.

4:15 SORT OF RESPOND TO THAT.

4:16 AND BRING YOU INTO THE

4:17 CONVERSATION THAT WAY.

4:18 SO I.

4:19 REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR

4:20 LEADERSHIP, SABINO.

4:21 REALLY APPRECIATE UH YOUR.

4:23 LEADERSHIP AS WELL.

4:23 COMMISSIONER, I KNOW THAT

4:24 YOU'VE BEEN DOING YEOMAN'S WORK

4:25 TRYING TO UM.

4:29 UH TO BOTH.

4:31 CONTINUE DOING CITY.

4:32 RECORDS AND ALSO.

4:33 UH, YOUR HANDS HERE.

4:34 UH, SO REALLY APPRECIATE THE

4:35 WORK THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING.

4:37 SEE?

4:37 UH, ITALIA.

4:38 RIGHT.

4:39 ITALIA HERE.

4:39 SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.

4:41 UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS

4:42 CONVERSATION.

4:43 I AM GOING TO PASS IT OFF TO MY

4:44 COLLEAGUE.

4:45 IF HE HAS ANY OPENING REMARKS.

4:47 THANK YOU.

4:47 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

4:50 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE

4:52 ADMINISTRATION TEAM FOR BEING

4:53 HERE.

4:53 I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE

4:55 PANELISTS FOR THE IMPORTANT

4:56 WORK YOU ARE DOING AS WELL.

4:58 UM, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO

5:00 WORK WITH SHERYL, UH, FOR FOR

5:02 MANY YEARS AND RESPECT THE WORK

5:04 YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND

5:05 VOLUNTEERS ARE DOING.

5:07 I WAS AT AN EVENT LAST NIGHT

5:09 THE JEREMIAH PROGRAM IN THE

5:12 SOUTH END AND WE WE WENT

5:15 THROUGH EVERY UM BALLOT

5:18 INITIATIVE AND MY GUESTS UH,

5:20 RUSSELL HOLMES AND MYSELF WE

5:22 TALKED ABOUT THEM I THINK FOR

5:23 ALMOST TWO HOURS UM, TO A TO A

5:27 GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT MOSTLY

5:28 SINGLE MOTHERS AND ASKING THEY

5:31 WERE ASKING QUESTIONS AND I

5:33 THINK RUSSELL DID AN

5:34 EXCEPTIONAL JOB EXPLAINING EACH

5:36 OF THEM IN DETAIL.

5:38 UM I SUPPORT MY SUPPORT

5:40 QUESTION FOR BUT I ALSO KNOW

5:43 THAT THE CITY OF BOSTON

5:46 ELECTION DEPARTMENT IS

5:47 CURRENTLY UNDER STATE

5:48 RECEIVERSHIP.

5:49 DURING THE MOST IMPORTANT

5:50 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2024.

5:55 WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH BALLOTS

5:57 TO REACH MANY POLLING LOCATIONS

5:59 IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

6:01 UH, WE'RE STILL UNDER THE

6:02 RECEIVERSHIP BASICALLY OF THE

6:04 SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.

6:06 UM.

6:09 I'M GOING TO STOP THERE.

6:10 I'M GOING TO LISTEN TO THE

6:11 ADVOCATES.

6:12 I DO APOLOGIZE I'M GOING TO A

6:15 UM THE VA.

6:16 UM, IT'S RELATED TO A CHILDCARE

6:19 RELATED ISSUE IN THIS IN

6:20 JAMAICA PLAIN.

6:22 UM, BUT I AM GOING TO BE

6:23 LEAVING EARLY BUT I WILL BE

6:25 WATCHING THE VIDEO UM, LATER ON

6:27 THIS WEEK.

6:27 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

6:28 THANK YOU COUNCILOR AND I TOO

6:29 WAS AT THE EVENT LAST NIGHT AT

6:31 JEREMIAH PROGRAM.

6:31 I WANT TO THANK ALISON AND ALL

6:33 THE INCREDIBLE BLACK WOMEN WHO

6:34 DO INCREDIBLE WORK TO MAKE SURE

6:35 THAT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IS

6:36 CENTERED HERE IN OUR CITY.

6:37 SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

6:39 THIS INCREDIBLE PANEL.

6:39 WE'LL KICK IT OFF WITH FIVE

6:41 MINUTES OF TESTIMONY FROM EACH

6:43 OF YOU.

6:43 WE HAVE TRACY FROM THE ACLU

6:45 HERE AND THEN WE HAVE A VIDEO

6:47 FROM RAHSAAN.

6:48 OVER AT THE URBAN LEAGUE.

6:49 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

6:50 WE'LL KICK IT OFF.

6:51 UM, IN ORDER THAT WE BEFORE US

6:53 AND WE WILL START WITH, UH, YOU

6:56 BROOKE, WE HAVE BROOKE SAMOAN

6:57 HERE, A STAFF ATTORNEY, LAWYERS

6:59 FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

7:00 UH, WE HAVE CELIA CANAVAN HERE,

7:02 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LEAGUE

7:03 OF WOMEN VOTERS

7:04 OF MASSACHUSETTS.

7:05 CHERYL CLYBURN CRAWFORD

7:07 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT MASS VOTE

7:09 TRACI GRIFFITH, UH, DIRECTOR

7:11 OF THE RACIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM

7:12 AT THE.

7:12 ACLU OF MASSACHUSETTS AND

7:14 RAHSAAN HALL, UH, HERE VIA.

7:17 UH PRE.

7:18 MADE VIDEO FROM.

7:20 THE URBAN LEAGUE

7:20 OF MASSACHUSETTS.

7:21 SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH

7:22 YOU, CELIA.

7:23 UH, WITH YOU BROOKE, YOU HAVE

7:25 THE FLOOR AND FIVE MINUTES WILL

7:27 HAVE ABOUT HOW LONG YOU NEED TO

7:28 FOR AN OPENING.

7:28 THANK YOU.

7:30 GOOD MORNING.

7:32 UM, AND THANK YOU,

7:33 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

7:34 UH, COUNCILOR PEPEN,

7:35 COUNCILOR PRESIDENT BREADON FOR

7:37 CALLING ATTENTION TO THESE

7:38 ISSUES AND FOR INVITING ME TO

7:39 BE HERE TODAY.

7:41 UM, I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK

7:42 YOU TO COUNCILOR FLYNN FOR FOR

7:44 BEING HERE.

7:46 UM UH UM UH, MY NAME IS BROOKE.

7:49 SEAMAN AND I'M GOING TO TALK

7:50 ABOUT LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

7:51 .

7:53 ALL OF US HERE IN THIS.

7:54 ROOM SHARE A GOAL WHICH IS TO

7:57 ENSURE THAT EVERY ELIGIBLE

7:58 VOTER WHO WANTS TO CAST A

7:59 BALLOT CAN DO SO AND THEY CAN

8:01 DO SO WITHOUT FEAR AND WITHOUT

8:03 INTIMIDATION AND OBSTACLES.

8:05 SO I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE

8:06 BIT.

8:07 ABOUT WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE

8:08 THAT HAPPEN.

8:10 A CRITICAL PIECE OF THAT IS THE

8:12 ELECTION PROTECTION.

8:12 PROGRAM WHICH IS A NATIONAL

8:15 NONPARTISAN.

8:16 UM A NATIONAL NONPARTISAN.

8:17 AND VOLUNTEER POLL OBSERVER

8:20 PROGRAM.

8:20 AT LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

8:22 WE ARE PROUD TO BE PART OF THE

8:23 COALITION THAT RUNS THIS

8:24 PROGRAM IN MASSACHUSETTS ALONG

8:26 WITH OTHER PARTNERS HERE AND

8:28 THOSE ON THE RECORDINGS AS

8:30 WELL.

8:32 DURING THE PRIMARY.

8:33 WE SAW SOME CONFUSION AMONG

8:35 POLL WORKERS ABOUT WHAT THESE

8:37 VOLUNTEERS ARE ALLOWED TO DO.

8:39 SO I JUST WANT TO TAKE SOME

8:40 TIME TO CLARIFY.

8:42 THEY ARE TRAINED AND AUTHORIZED

8:44 TO OBSERVE.

8:45 INSIDE POLLING LOCATIONS

8:46 WHETHER THAT'S TO FREQUENTLY

8:47 CHECK IN.

8:48 TO OBSERVE PARTICULAR.

8:50 UH, PARTICULAR IRREGULARITIES

8:52 THAT ARISE.

8:52 AND BECAUSE THEY ARE ENTIRELY.

8:55 NONPARTISAN, THEY ARE.

8:56 AUTHORIZED TO ENGAGE.

8:57 WITH VOTERS OUTSIDE.

8:58 OF THE POLLING.

8:59 LOCATIONS BUT WITHIN THE 150

9:01 FOOT ELECTIONEERING ZONE.

9:04 ,OUR VOLUNTEERS.

9:05 ARE PRESENT TO ANSWER

9:06 QUESTIONS FROM VOTERS LIKE IS

9:08 AN ID REQUIRED?

9:09 WHAT IF THEY TELL ME I NEED.

9:10 AN ID?

9:11 CAN A FRIEND HELP.

9:12 ME VOTE?

9:13 THE VOLUNTEERS ALSO ESCALATE

9:15 PROBLEMS THAT NEED.

9:16 TROUBLESHOOTING OR LEGAL

9:17 SUPPORT, AND PART OF.

9:18 THIS IS STEERING VOTERS.

9:20 TO THE COURT.

9:20 TO CALL THE.

9:21 EIGHT SIX SIX.

9:23 HOUR VOTE HOTLINE WHERE.

9:25 UH, A GROUP.

9:27 OF LAWYERS.

9:27 ARE ALSO STANDING BY TO PROVIDE

9:30 SUPPORT.

9:31 NOW THIS HOTLINE UM.

9:33 IS ALWAYS OPEN.

9:34 IT WILL BE.

9:34 OPEN DURING.

9:35 UH, EARLY VOTING AND ON

9:36 ELECTION DAY.

9:38 WE WILL HAVE POLL OBSERVERS

9:39 THROUGHOUT BOSTON'S.

9:40 PRECINCTS ON ELECTION DAY AS

9:42 WELL.

9:42 AND OUR TEAM AT LAWYERS FOR.

9:44 CIVIL RIGHTS WILL BE READY TO

9:45 RESPOND.

9:45 TO WHATEVER CHALLENGES

9:47 ARISE.

9:49 NOW EVERY ELECTION WE EXPECT.

9:51 TO SEE CERTAIN.

9:52 LOGISTICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

9:53 ISSUES.

9:53 A LOT OF THESE AROSE.

9:56 UM UH, DURING THE PRIMARY.

9:57 WE SAW SOME OF THESE

9:58 STANDARD PROBLEMS.

9:59 LIKE THE REGISTRATION.

10:00 DEADLINE KEEPING ELIGIBLE

10:01 PEOPLE FROM VOTING AND THAT'S

10:02 WHY WE SUPPORT QUESTION FOUR ON

10:05 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION.

10:06 THERE WERE ALSO A LARGE NUMBER

10:08 OF VOTERS WHO.

10:09 WERE LISTED AS INACTIVE

10:10 SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T

10:11 RETURN THE CENSUS FORM.

10:13 THERE ARE ALSO UNFORTUNATELY.

10:15 ALWAYS ISSUES UM AROUND

10:17 ACCESSIBILITY OF POLLING PLACES

10:19 AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE

10:20 ELECTION PROTECTION PROGRAM CAN

10:22 STEP IN TO ASSIST WITH UM AS

10:24 WELL.

10:26 IN THE PAST UM AS

10:28 COUNCILOR FLYNN MENTIONED,

10:30 BOSTON VOTERS HAVE FACED LONG

10:31 LINES AND BALLOT SHORTAGES.

10:33 PARTICULARLY IN COMMUNITIES

10:34 OF COLOR AND LOW INCOME

10:36 COMMUNITIES.

10:37 WE ARE VERY ENCOURAGED BY THE.

10:39 NEW LEADERSHIP IN BOSTON'S

10:41 ELECTION DEPARTMENT, AND WE

10:42 KNOW THAT.

10:43 THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

10:44 JORDAN.

10:44 SHARES OUR HOPE THAT THESE

10:46 ISSUES DON'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

10:47 SO WE WANT TO SAY WELCOME.

10:49 AND WE ARE HAPPY TO BE.

10:50 IN OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH THE

10:52 NEW LEADERSHIP TEAM.

10:55 NOW ALONG WITH SOME OF THESE

10:56 MORE TYPICAL CONCERNS, THESE

10:58 ADMINISTRATIVE.

10:59 OR SORT OF.

11:00 LOGISTICAL CONCERNS.

11:01 THIS ELECTION THERE IS A REAL.

11:03 CONCERN ABOUT FEDERAL OFFICERS

11:05 BEING SENT TO POLLING PLACES.

11:07 SO TO BE DIRECT THAT.

11:09 WOULD BE UNLAWFUL.

11:12 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENTS

11:13 WHETHER.

11:14 ICE.

11:15 DOJ OR THE FBI CANNOT

11:17 INTERFERE WITH THE RIGHT TO

11:18 VOTE.

11:19 THEY CANNOT INTIMIDATE.

11:21 OR THREATEN.

11:21 VOTERS WHICH CAN.

11:22 OCCUR DUE TO SIMPLY THEIR

11:24 PRESENCE ALONE AND.

11:26 EVEN MORE POINTEDLY, ARMED

11:28 FEDERAL.

11:28 OFFICIALS CANNOT BE AT A

11:30 POLLING PLACE.

11:31 SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS IF ICE.

11:33 OFFICERS ARE.

11:34 STATIONED NEAR A.

11:36 SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY CENTER THAT

11:38 IS USED AS A POLLING PLACE THAT

11:40 IS ILLEGAL.

11:42 THEIR PRESENCE OF COURSE WOULD.

11:44 WOULD PRESENT DANGERS

11:45 OF AGGRESSIVE.

11:46 TACTICS OF DETENTION

11:48 OF DEPORTATION.

11:49 BUT THE THREAT REALLY.

11:50 EXTENDS MUCH FURTHER THAN THAT.

11:54 SO MANY BOSTONIANS ARE LIVING

11:56 IN CONSTANT FEAR OF.

11:57 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, AND

11:59 THAT INCLUDES.

12:00 PEOPLE WHO ARE.

12:01 CITIZENS AND ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.

12:03 SO I'M TALKING.

12:04 ABOUT FOREIGN BORN.

12:05 NATURALIZED CITIZENS, PEOPLE IN

12:07 MIXED STATUS HOUSEHOLDS AND

12:08 PEOPLE OF COLOR.

12:10 .

12:10 FOR A LOT OF THOSE ELIGIBLE

12:12 VOTERS, IF THEY HEAR THAT ICE.

12:14 MAY BE NEAR THEIR POLLING.

12:16 PLACE, SOME OF THEM WILL SIMPLY

12:18 STAY HOME AND THAT MEANS THAT

12:20 THEY ARE LOSING THEIR RIGHT TO

12:21 VOTE AND THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.

12:26 SO AT LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

12:27 WE ARE.

12:28 RESPONDING ON TWO.

12:29 FRONTS WE ARE EDUCATING.

12:31 THE COMMUNITIES MOST

12:32 VULNERABLE TO.

12:32 ICE ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS.

12:34 AND WHAT TO DO IF A FEDERAL.

12:35 OFFICER IS NEAR A POLLING.

12:36 PLACE AND WE ARE ALSO READY TO.

12:39 GO TO COURT THE MOMENT.

12:40 THAT UNLAWFUL GOVERNMENT

12:41 ACTIVITY THREATENS THE

12:43 COMMUNITIES WE WORK WITH.

12:46 .

12:46 SO WE ARE READY.

12:47 TO STEP IN AND.

12:48 OUR PARTNERS HERE ARE CERTAINLY

12:50 READY AS WELL.

12:51 BUT IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT

12:53 THE CITY.

12:53 OF BOSTON BE READY TO AND SO

12:55 I.

12:56 WOULD URGE THE CITY.

12:57 TO DO FOUR THINGS.

12:59 FIRST, PROMOTE EARLY.

13:00 VOTING AND MAIL VOTING SO THAT

13:02 NO VOTER HAS TO DEPEND ON ONE

13:05 DAY AND ONE LOCATION.

13:07 SECOND, TRAIN.

13:09 WARDENS, INSPECTORS.

13:11 AND OTHER POLL WORKERS ON

13:12 THE LAWS THAT APPLY.

13:13 AND ON WHAT TO DO IF FEDERAL

13:14 AGENTS SHOW UP TO A POLLING

13:16 PLACE.

13:18 THIRD, COORDINATE AND

13:19 COMMUNICATE BEFOREHAND.

13:21 WITH STATE OFFICIALS AND GROUPS

13:23 .

13:23 LIKE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL.

13:24 RIGHTS AND OTHER FOLKS ON THIS

13:25 PANEL.

13:26 AND FOURTH, COMMUNICATE

13:29 ACCURATELY WITH.

13:29 BOSTON VOTERS.

13:31 THEY NEED TO KNOW THEIR RIGHTS

13:32 AT THE.

13:33 POLLS AND WHAT MIGHT STAND IN

13:34 THEIR WAY.

13:35 BUT JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, THEY.

13:37 NEED TO KNOW THAT THEIR.

13:38 CITY, THEIR HOME.

13:40 AND LEGAL AND.

13:41 ADVOCACY GROUPS.

13:42 STAND WITH THEM AND ARE.

13:44 READY TO PROTECT THEIR.

13:45 RIGHT TO VOTE.

13:46 SO I'M EXCITED AND HOPEFUL TO.

13:48 WORK TOGETHER TO ENSURE THAT

13:49 NO ONE IS.

13:50 PREVENTED FROM EXERCISING THAT

13:51 RIGHT.

13:51 THANK YOU AGAIN.

13:52 FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE

13:54 .

13:54 AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY

13:56 QUESTIONS.

13:57 THANK YOU SO MUCH CELIA.

13:59 AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY

14:01 COUNCIL PRESIDENT LIZ BRATTON.

14:02 UH, SO YOU.

14:07 THIS IS WORKING.

14:07 YEAH.

14:08 OKAY.

14:08 GOOD, GOOD.

14:09 SO, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

14:11 UH, MADAM CHAIR,

14:12 COUNCILOR PRESIDENT BRITA.

14:13 AND COUNCILOR.

14:14 FLYNN AND THE REST OF THE CITY

14:16 .

14:16 COUNCIL FOR.

14:17 THE INVITATION AND FOR YOUR

14:18 CONTINUED SUPPORT OF ELECTIONS

14:20 AND VOTING.

14:22 MY NAME IS CELIA CANAVAN.

14:23 I AM PROUD TO SERVE AS THE

14:25 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE

14:26 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

14:27 OF MASSACHUSETTS.

14:28 WE SERVE 155 COMMUNITIES ACROSS

14:31 THE COMMONWEALTH AND ARE

14:32 PROUDLY REPRESENTED HERE WITH

14:33 THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

14:34 OF BOSTON UH, IN 44 LOCAL

14:37 LEAGUES WITH OVER 3000 MEMBERS.

14:39 UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK

14:41 AND WELCOME THE NEW ELECTION

14:42 ADMINISTRATION LEADERSHIP.

14:43 I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING TO

14:44 WORK WITH YOU AND CONNECTING

14:46 WITH OUR LOCAL LEAGUE HERE AS

14:47 WELL TO CONTINUE TO PROTECT AND

14:49 SERVE THE VOTERS IN BOSTON.

14:51 UM, THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

14:52 ,UM IS ON IS FOUNDED ON TWO

14:55 FOUNDING PRINCIPLES EXCUSE ME,

14:57 UM, EMPOWERING VOTERS AND

14:58 DEFENDING DEMOCRACY.

14:59 AND WE DO THIS THROUGH A

15:01 WRAPAROUND APPROACH BOTH

15:01 THROUGH VOTER SERVICES, VOTER

15:04 REGISTRATION AND VOTER

15:05 EDUCATION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY

15:07 ON ISSUES SUCH AS QUESTION FOUR

15:09 AND ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION A

15:11 FIGHT THAT WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE

15:13 BEEN A PART OF WITH OUR

15:14 PARTNERS FOR YEARS.

15:15 YEARS UPON YEARS UM ON BEACON

15:17 HILL ARE NOW HAPPY TO BRING IT.

15:18 TO THE.

15:18 BALLOT BOX.

15:19 UM THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

15:21 OF MASSACHUSETTS HAS BEEN

15:22 WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK THIS

15:23 ELECTION CYCLE.

15:24 GIVEN THE CONTINUED FEDERAL

15:26 THREATS TO OUR ELECTIONS TO

15:27 MAKE SURE THAT VOTERS ACROSS

15:28 THE COMMONWEALTH HAVE THE

15:30 SERVICES AND TRUST THAT THEY

15:31 NEED TO MAKE AN INFORMED

15:33 DECISION AT THE BALLOT BOX.

15:34 UM, I'LL START MY REMARKS TODAY

15:36 WITH SOME OF OUR VOTER

15:37 EDUCATION WORK AND THEN I'LL BE

15:39 HAPPY TO GO INTO OUR WORK ON

15:41 YES ON FOR ELECTION DAY

15:42 REGISTRATION ON WHICH WE ARE

15:44 PROUD TO SERVE ON THE BALLOT

15:45 QUESTION COMMITTEE ALONGSIDE UH

15:47 ,CHERYL AND MANY OF OUR OTHER

15:48 GREAT PARTNERS.

15:50 UM, SO AT THE START OF THIS

15:51 YEAR WE WERE HUMBLED AND PROUD

15:53 TO SERVE AS ONE OF THE

15:55 PLAINTIFFS THE LEAD PLAINTIFF

15:56 TO BE EXACT IN THE LEAGUE

15:58 OF WOMEN VOTERS

15:59 OF MASSACHUSETTS VERSUS TRUMP,

16:00 WHICH IS A HALLMARK CASE TO

16:02 PROTECT MAIL-IN VOTING NOT ONLY

16:04 IN MASSACHUSETTS BUT ACROSS THE

16:06 NATION.

16:07 WE ARE PROUD THAT THROUGH THIS

16:08 WORK WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO

16:10 CONTINUE TO UPHOLD AN

16:11 INJUNCTION THAT HAS ALLOWED FOR

16:12 MAIL IN BALLOTS TO CONTINUE TO

16:14 BE DELIVERED TO VOTERS AGAIN

16:15 NOT ONLY IN THE COMMONWEALTH

16:17 BUT ACROSS THE NATION AND STOPS

16:19 FROM STOPS PERSONAL VOTER DATA

16:21 FROM BEING SHARED AMONG UM

16:23 STATES TO THE FEDERAL

16:24 GOVERNMENT.

16:25 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE

16:26 NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO ALONE.

16:27 AND I WOULD LIKE TO ESPECIALLY

16:28 SHOUT OUT, UH, TRACY AND THE

16:30 ACLU FOR THEIR CONTINUED

16:31 PARTNERSHIP WITH US ON THIS

16:33 WORK.

16:33 UM, BUT WE KNOW THAT THIS DOES

16:35 NOT STOP THERE.

16:36 SO WE HAVE CONTINUED THIS WORK

16:37 THROUGH CONTINUING TO ALLOW

16:39 VOTERS TO KNOW THAT MAIL IN

16:40 VOTING HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SAFE

16:42 AND SECURE METHOD OF VOTING AND

16:44 SOMETHING THEY CAN CONTINUE TO

16:45 TRUST AND USE HERE IN

16:47 MASSACHUSETTS SOMETHING THAT WE

16:49 ARE PROUD TO HAVE CONTINUE TO

16:50 HAVE FOUGHT FOR NOT ONLY IN

16:52 2026 BUT ALL THE WAY BACK TO

16:54 2022 WHEN WE WERE ABLE TO GET

16:55 NO EXCUSE MAIL IN VOTING.

16:57 WE CONTINUE THIS WORK HERE IN

17:00 MASSACHUSETTS THROUGH

17:01 PARTNERSHIPS.

17:02 WE ARE INCREDIBLY PROUD TO HAVE

17:04 OVER 100 NONPROFIT PARTNERS

17:05 THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND HERE

17:07 IN BOSTON.

17:08 WE HAVE CONTINUED TO EXPAND

17:09 THAT WORK THIS YEAR OUR TEAM

17:11 UM, WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO

17:13 ADD WAS LED BY TWO INCREDIBLE

17:15 STUDENTS HERE IN BOSTON.

17:17 UM, WE'RE ABLE TO COLLABORATE

17:18 WITH EVERY NONPARTISAN CAMPUS

17:22 UM ORGANIZATION IN BOSTON

17:23 COLLEGES TO PROVIDE WRAPAROUND

17:26 VOTER EDUCATION TOOLKITS AND

17:27 SERVICES SO THEY CAN INFORM

17:29 OTHER STUDENTS TO HAVE A MORE

17:31 INFORMED ELECTORATE COMING INTO

17:33 BOSTON THIS YEAR.

17:35 THIS HAS INCLUDED OUR ONLINE

17:36 VOTE 411.ORG ONLINE VOTER GUIDE

17:39 .

17:40 THIS IS A NONPARTISAN GUIDE

17:41 THAT COMBINES NOT ONLY

17:43 INFORMATION ABOUT CANDIDATES

17:44 AND BALLOT QUESTIONS WITH

17:47 INFORMATION REGARDING VOTER

17:48 REGISTRATION, LOCAL ORDINANCES

17:50 AND ANYTHING RELEVANT TO UH

17:52 VOTER REGISTRATION, VOTER

17:54 ENGAGEMENT AND CASTING YOUR

17:55 BALLOT.

17:56 EACH ELECTION.

17:57 CYCLE IN 2024 VOTE FOR ONE GOT

18:02 $192,000 I WISH I WAS AND

18:04 VISITS UM FROM VOTERS ACROSS

18:06 THE COMMONWEALTH AND WE EXPECT

18:07 SIMILAR NUMBERS THIS YEAR GIVEN

18:09 THE HEIGHTENED ANXIETY AND

18:11 CONTINUED INTEREST IN THIS

18:12 MIDTERM ELECTION.

18:14 WE'VE ALSO PARTNERED WITH

18:15 BOSTON BUSINESSES UM AND BOSTON

18:18 UM COMMUNITY RESOURCES TO

18:19 PROVIDE A VOTE 411 RESOURCES

18:21 AND ACTION GUIDE.

18:23 SO THAT WAY VOTERS ARE ABLE TO

18:24 GET THIS INFORMATION EASILY

18:26 ACCESSIBLY IN PLACES THEY

18:27 ALREADY OCCUPY.

18:28 THIS HAS INCLUDED PLACES SUCH

18:30 AS THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY,

18:31 PORTER SQUARE BOOKS AND OTHER

18:33 PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY

18:35 ATTENDING AND SIMPLY JUST NEED

18:36 ACCESS TO THIS CRITICAL

18:38 INFORMATION.

18:39 WE'VE ALSO CONTINUE TO RUN OUR

18:41 TRADITIONAL PROGRAMING SUCH AS

18:43 CANDIDATE FORUMS.

18:44 WE'RE PROUD TO HAVE SERVED

18:46 BOSTON AS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION

18:49 TO GET BOTH.

18:50 UM CONGRESSMAN STEPHEN LYNCH

18:51 AND THEN CANDIDATE PATRICK ROSE

18:54 TO A CANDIDATES FORUM UM IT

18:56 TOGETHER AND PRESENT THAT.

18:58 UM IN COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL

18:59 LEAGUES WITHIN CONGRESSIONAL

19:00 DISTRICT EIGHT AND BOSTON TO

19:02 MAKE SURE VOTERS WERE ABLE TO

19:04 MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION ON

19:05 ELECTION DAY.

19:06 WE CONTINUE TO RUN THESE

19:07 PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE

19:09 AND ARE PROUD TO ALSO BE

19:10 WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP UM ON

19:12 THE ELECTION PROTECTION TASK

19:13 FORCE AND AS WELL WITH A POLL

19:15 WORKER RECRUITMENT PROGRAM

19:17 REGARDLESS OF THE UH

19:19 MUNICIPALITY WE'RE IN, WE

19:20 ENCOURAGE ALL OF OUR MEMBERS TO

19:21 CHOOSE ONE OF THOSE TWO OPTIONS

19:23 BE A NONPARTISAN POLL OBSERVER

19:25 OR JOIN YOUR ELECTION

19:27 ADMINISTRATORS AS A POLL WORKER

19:28 .

19:28 AND WE ARE PROUD TO CONTINUE TO

19:30 PUSH PEOPLE.

19:30 IN.

19:31 THAT DIRECTION.

19:32 WE ALSO HAVE ON OUR WEBSITE,

19:34 UM, WHICH WE CONTINUE TO PUSH

19:36 TO UH MEMBERS AND THE PUBLIC

19:38 ALIKE OUR ELECTION 2026

19:40 RESOURCES WHICH INCLUDE DIRECT

19:42 VOTER REGISTRATION, BALLOT

19:44 TRACKING, AN ACCESSIBLE COPY

19:46 OF THE RED.

19:47 BOOK UM AND THEN UPLIFTING SOME

19:50 OF OUR PARTNERS INFORMATION

19:51 SUCH AS THE ACLU KNOW YOUR

19:53 VOTING RIGHTS GUIDE TO MAKE

19:54 SURE THAT WE GET AS MUCH

19:56 VISIBILITY AS POSSIBLE TO THE

19:57 GREAT WORK GOING ON IN

19:58 COMMUNITY.

20:00 WE ARE SO PROUD OF THIS

20:02 ELECTION AND VOTER SERVICES

20:03 WORK THAT WE DO, BUT WE KNOW

20:05 THAT THIS IS ONLY ONE PART

20:06 OF OUR CONTINUED ADVOCACY WHICH

20:08 IS WHY THE VOTE YES ON FOR

20:10 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

20:11 COMMITTEE HAS BEEN SUCH PROUD

20:12 WORK OF THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN

20:14 VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS.

20:16 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION IS A

20:18 COMMON SENSE WITH VOTING RIGHTS

20:20 REFORM.

20:20 IT IS SOMETHING THAT

20:21 MASSACHUSETTS IS LONG OVERDUE

20:23 TO JOIN 23 STATES AND THE

20:24 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN

20:26 ENACTING.

20:26 IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT

20:28 THIS TEN DAY DEADLINE THAT WE

20:29 HAVE IS ARBITRARY AND THAT WE

20:32 KNOW THAT FROM SURVEYS IN

20:33 MASSACHUSETTS AND REAL LIFE

20:34 EXPERIENCES IN OTHER STATES.

20:36 THAT THESE.

20:36 DEADLINES SUPPRESS THE RIGHT TO

20:38 VOTE.

20:38 PEOPLE ARE OFTEN SO BUSY WITH

20:40 THEIR DAY TO DAY

20:41 RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THEY

20:42 DON'T CLUE INTO IMPORTANT

20:43 ISSUES ON THE BALLOT UNTIL THE

20:44 WEEK BEFORE AN ELECTION WHEN

20:45 THEY ARE RECEIVING MAILERS, ADS

20:48 ,PEOPLE KNOCKING ON THEIR

20:49 DOORSTEP AND BY THEN IT IS

20:50 ALREADY TOO LATE TO REGISTER IN

20:52 MASSACHUSETTS.

20:53 IMPORTANTLY, QUESTION FOUR DOES

20:54 NOT STAND TO JUST BENEFIT NEW

20:56 VOTERS.

20:56 IT ALSO ALLOWS US TO WELCOME IN

20:58 VOTERS WHO MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED

20:59 SOME FORM OF CLERICAL ERROR OR

21:01 ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUE WITHIN

21:02 THEIR VOTER REGISTRATION AND

21:04 DID NOT HAVE THE TIME TO GET

21:05 AWAY FROM THEIR WORK OR LIFE

21:08 RESPONSIBILITIES TO AMEND THAT.

21:09 ISSUE THEY MAY HAVE MOVED,

21:11 CHANGE THEIR NAME, HAD A MIDDLE

21:13 INITIAL LEFT OFF AND THESE CAN

21:15 ALL BE UH, BARRIERS TO THEIR

21:16 SIMPLE RIGHT TO VOTE.

21:18 WE KNOW THAT THIS DOES NOT

21:19 CREATE CHAOS AT THE POLLS.

21:21 THIS DOES NOT CREATE ADDITIONAL

21:22 BARRIERS FOR ELECTION

21:24 ADMINISTRATORS IN THESE 23

21:25 OTHER STATES.

21:26 SOME STATES HAVE HAD ELECTION

21:27 DAY REGISTRATION OR A VERSION

21:29 OF SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION

21:30 FOR OVER 50 YEARS AND HAVE NOT

21:32 SEEN ANY EVIDENCE OF FRAUD, ANY

21:35 INCREASED COSTS OR ANY FURTHER

21:37 ISSUES RELATED TO UM

21:40 ADMINISTRATION.

21:41 WE ALSO KNOW THAT THIS DOES NOT

21:43 ADD ANY FURTHER BURDEN ON

21:45 ELECTION ADMINISTRATORS AND WE

21:47 ARE PROUD TO SAY THAT THE

21:48 VERSION THAT WE HAVE HERE IN

21:49 MASSACHUSETTS PROPOSED IN FRONT

21:51 OF US ALLOWS FOR A ONE YEAR UM,

21:53 DELAYED IMPLEMENTATION.

21:54 THIS WOULD NOT BE IMPLEMENTED

21:56 UNTIL 2028 ALLOWING US TO HAVE

21:58 FURTHER TRAINING UM AND

22:00 EDUCATION FOR ELECTION

22:01 ADMINISTRATORS AND ELECTION

22:03 WORKERS PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION

22:06 ALL AROUND WE KNOW THAT

22:07 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION IS

22:09 SOMETHING THAT STANDS TO ONLY

22:11 BENEFIT MASSACHUSETTS.

22:12 IT DOES NOT STAND TO BENEFIT

22:14 EITHER PARTY AND SPECIFIC ANY

22:16 VOTER AT ANY TIME REGARDLESS

22:17 OF THEIR POLITICAL PARTY, RACE,

22:20 DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMIC STATUS CAN

22:22 EXPERIENCE AN ISSUE AT THE

22:24 POLLS.

22:24 I MYSELF HAVE BENEFITED FROM

22:26 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION AS A

22:27 VOTER IN MAINE BEFORE MOVING

22:28 BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS AND ONCE

22:31 MOVING BACK TO MASSACHUSETTS.

22:33 EXPERIENCE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN

22:34 YOU DON'T HAVE ELECTION DAY

22:35 REGISTRATION.

22:36 WHEN I WAS UNABLE TO REGISTER

22:37 TO VOTE THREE DAYS AFTER MOVING

22:40 HOME THREE DAYS AFTER THE

22:41 DEADLINE THANKFULLY I AM SO

22:44 GLAD TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VOTE

22:45 THIS YEAR IN THE YEARS SINCE.

22:47 BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT

22:48 STICKS WITH ME AS I THINK

22:50 OF ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS

22:50 MOVING HOME STUDENTS WHO HAVE

22:52 MOVED FORWARD AND THE REST

22:54 OF THE COMMONWEALTH WHO SIMPLY

22:56 NEEDS THAT RIGHT TO VOTE AND

22:57 DOES NOT KNOW IF THEY'LL BE

22:58 ABLE TO DO SO.

23:00 I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN

23:01 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE AND UM

23:02 COUNCIL PRESIDENT FREEDOM FOR

23:03 YOUR.

23:04 UM BRINGING THAT UM RESOLUTION

23:07 FORWARD AND HOPE THAT WE CAN

23:08 GET TO BE MORE SUPPORT FOR YES

23:10 ON FOUR UM AND THAT COMMON

23:11 SENSE REFORM.

23:13 THANK YOU.

23:14 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CELIA.

23:15 UH, WE NOW MOVE ON TO CHERYL

23:17 CLYBURN.

23:17 CRAWFORD I SAID THAT EXECUTIVE

23:18 DIRECTOR OF MASS VOTE.

23:20 BUT HOLD ON.

23:20 Y'ALL HAVE THE CHAIR OF THE YES

23:22 ON FOUR BALLOT COMMITTEE AND

23:24 HOLD ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

23:26 SECOND VICE PRESIDENT OKAY.

23:28 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE

23:31 NAACP BOSTON BRANCH HERE.

23:32 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING

23:34 WITH US.

23:34 CHERYL.

23:35 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR GRAY.

23:37 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

23:38 GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR AND

23:41 MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE

23:43 DISTINGUISHED LEGISLATORS AND

23:45 CONGRATULATIONS.

23:46 HELLO SABINA.

23:47 RIGHT.

23:48 MY NAME IS CHERYL CLYBURN

23:50 CRAWFORD I'M THE EXECUTIVE

23:51 DIRECTOR OF MASS VOTE AS UH,

23:53 COUNCILOR LUIGI AND JUST SAT IN

23:55 THE CHAIR OF THE BALLOT

23:56 QUESTION FOR COMMITTEE.

23:57 THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY

23:59 TO SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY ABOUT

24:00 THE WORK MARCELLO IS DOING TO

24:02 PREPARE MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS

24:04 FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTION AND

24:06 IMPORTANTLY ABOUT ELECTION DAY

24:08 REGISTRATION BALLOT INITIATIVE

24:11 MASS VOTER HAS SPENT 25 YEARS

24:14 TO WORKING TO MAKE OUR

24:16 DEMOCRACY MORE ACCESSIBLE,

24:18 INCLUSIVE AND PARTICIPATORY.

24:20 OUR WORK IS GROUNDED IN SIMPLE

24:22 PRINCIPLE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE

24:24 TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR DEMOCRACY

24:27 WITHOUT UNNECESSARY,

24:28 UNNECESSARY BARRIERS STANDING

24:30 IN THEIR WAY AS WE APPROACH

24:33 NOVEMBER 3RD SELECTION, OUR

24:35 WORK IS FOCUSED ON VOTER

24:37 EDUCATION, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

24:40 AS WELL AS ELECTION DAY

24:42 PREPAREDNESS AND MAKING SURE

24:43 PEOPLE HAVE THE INFORMATION AND

24:45 RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED TO

24:47 PARTICIPATE.

24:48 SO WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE

24:50 WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE

24:51 ELECTION?

24:51 MASS VOTE IS TAKEN OUR VOTER

24:53 EDUCATION EFFORTS DIRECTLY INTO

24:55 THE COMMUNITIES WE ARE

24:57 DISSEMINATING EDUCATIONAL

24:58 LITERATURE ABOUT.

24:59 QUESTION FOR ELECTION DAY

25:02 REGISTRATION MAKING SURE VOTERS

25:04 UNDERSTAND WHAT THE QUESTION IS

25:05 ABOUT AND WHAT IT WOULD MEAN

25:07 FOR ELIGIBLE VOTERS.

25:09 WE ARE CONDUCTING PHONE BANKS

25:11 TO REACH VOTERS DIRECTLY AND

25:13 PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE

25:15 ELECTION IN QUESTION FOUR WE

25:16 ARE TABLING AT COMMUNITY EVENTS

25:19 AND IN NEIGHBORHOODS CREATING

25:21 OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOTERS TO ASK

25:23 QUESTIONS AND RECEIVE

25:25 INFORMATION FACE TO FACE.

25:27 WE ARE ALSO HOSTING A COMMUNITY

25:29 FORUM TO PROVIDE VOTERS WITH

25:31 THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT

25:33 ETR ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

25:35 AND ENGAGE IN A BROADER

25:37 CONVERSATION ABOUT ACCESS TO

25:39 THE BALLOT.

25:40 AND IMPORTANTLY, WE ARE

25:42 RECRUITING AND PREPARING

25:44 VOLUNTEERS TO SUPPORT OUR

25:45 ELECTION PROTECTION PROGRAM ON

25:48 ELECTION DAY.

25:49 ELECTION PROTECTION IS AN

25:51 IMPORTANT PART OF THIS WORK AS

25:52 YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD.

25:53 UM THE EDUCATION DOESN'T END

25:55 WHEN THE.

25:56 POLLS OPEN.

25:57 WE WANT TO HAVE TRAINED PEOPLE

25:59 AVAILABLE TO HELP IDENTIFY AND

26:01 RESPOND TO PROBLEMS VOTERS MAY

26:04 ENCOUNTER AT THE POLLS AND TO

26:05 MAKE SURE VOTERS UNDERSTAND

26:07 THEIR RIGHTS IN THE PROCESS.

26:09 OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE PEOPLE IN

26:11 COMMUNITIES BEFORE ELECTION DAY

26:13 PEOPLE ON THE PHONES, PEOPLE AT

26:16 TABLES, PEOPLE AT FORUMS AND

26:18 TRAIN VOLUNTEERS PREPARE TO

26:20 RESPOND ON ELECTION DAY.

26:22 THAT IS WHERE VOTER ENGAGEMENT

26:23 LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE ALONG

26:25 WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.

26:27 BUT OUR WORK IS NOT SIMPLE.

26:29 IT'S NOT SIMPLY ABOUT GETTING

26:31 INFORMATION INTO PEOPLE'S

26:32 HANDS.

26:33 IT IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT

26:35 THE INFORMATION REACHES PEOPLE

26:36 THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS AND

26:38 INDIVIDUALS THEY KNOW AND TRUST

26:40 .

26:41 HENCE THE PARTNERSHIP WE HAVE

26:43 ACROSS THE STATE WITH

26:44 GRASSROOTS BASED BUILDING

26:46 ORGANIZATIONS THAT.

26:48 IS.

26:48 PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR

26:49 VOTERS WHO MAY FACE GREATER

26:51 BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION YOUNG

26:53 VOTERS, FIRST TIME VOTERS,

26:56 VOTERS WHO HAVE RECENTLY MOVED

26:58 AND PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT

26:59 REGULARLY ENGAGE WITH THE.

27:01 POLITICAL PROCESS.

27:03 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION AND

27:05 THAT IS WHAT BRINGS ME TO THAT

27:07 MASS VOTE HAS BEEN ADVOCATING

27:09 FOR ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

27:10 SINCE I CAME TO MASS VOTE AS AN

27:13 ORGANIZER IN 2008.

27:16 FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES WE HAVE

27:18 HEARD FROM VOTERS WHO ENCOUNTER

27:20 REGISTRATION BARRIERS AT

27:22 PRECISELY THE MOMENT THEY ARE

27:23 TRYING TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT

27:25 TO VOTE.

27:26 SOMETIMES A PERSON HAS MOVED

27:27 AND THEIR REGISTRATION

27:28 INFORMATION HAS NOT BEEN

27:30 UPDATED.

27:30 UH, SOMETIMES A YOUNG PERSON

27:32 BECOMES ELIGIBLE TO VOTE BUT

27:34 MISSES THE REGISTRATION

27:36 DEADLINE.

27:37 SOMETIMES A VOTER BELIEVES THEY

27:39 ARE REGISTERED AND ONLY

27:40 DISCOVERS A PROBLEM WHEN THEY

27:42 ARRIVE AT THE POLLING LOCATION

27:43 .

27:44 THESE ARE NOT NECESSARILY

27:45 PEOPLE WHO DECIDED NOT TO

27:47 PARTICIPATE.

27:48 THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO SHOWED UP

27:51 AND THAT DISTRACTION MATTERS.

27:53 THERE'S A REAL DISTINCTION

27:55 THERE.

27:56 QUESTION FOUR WOULD CREATE A

27:57 PROCESS FOR AN ELIGIBLE VOTER

28:00 TO REGISTER OR UPDATE THEIR

28:01 VOTER REGISTRATION ADDRESS AT

28:03 THE POLLING LOCATION ON

28:05 ELECTION DAY.

28:06 THE PROPOSED PROCESS INCLUDES

28:09 REQUIREMENTS TO ESTABLISH

28:11 RESIDENCY AND AFFIRM.

28:13 ELIGIBILITY FOR MASS VOTE.

28:15 THIS IS FUNDAMENTALLY ABOUT

28:17 LIFTING A BARRIER TO VOTING

28:19 WHILE MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY

28:21 OF THE ELECTION PROCESS.

28:22 OUR RESPONSIBILITY BETWEEN NOW

28:25 AND NOVEMBER IS TO EDUCATE

28:27 VOTERS ABOUT WHAT IS ON THE

28:28 BALLOT, INCLUDING QUESTION FOUR

28:30 AND TO MAKE SURE COMMUNITIES

28:32 UNDERSTAND THE VOTING PROCESS.

28:33 BUT I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE

28:35 SOMETHING TO THE MEMBERS

28:37 OF THIS COMMITTEE VOTER

28:40 EDUCATION CANNOT SOLVE EVERY

28:42 BARRIER.

28:42 WE CAN TELL SOMEONE THE

28:45 REGISTRATION DEADLINE.

28:46 WE CAN REMIND THEM TO CHECK

28:48 THEIR REGISTRATION.

28:49 WE CAN HELP THEM UNDERSTAND

28:51 WHERE TO VOTE.

28:52 BUT IF SOMEONE MISSES A

28:54 DEADLINE, MOVES UNEXPECTEDLY OR

28:57 DISCOVERS THE REGISTRATION

28:58 PROBLEM WHEN THEY ARRIVE AT THE

29:00 POLLS, INFORMATION ALONE CANNOT

29:02 FIX THAT PROBLEM.

29:03 THAT IS WHY ELECTION DAY

29:05 REGISTRATION CAN MAKE A

29:06 DIFFERENCE.

29:07 MARCELLO BELIEVES THAT

29:09 MASSACHUSETTS SHOULD CONTINUE

29:10 LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ENSURE THAT

29:12 ELIGIBLE CITIZENS CAN

29:14 PARTICIPATE IN OUR ELECTIONS,

29:15 AND THAT OUR ELECTION SYSTEM

29:17 REFLECTS THE REALITIES

29:19 OF PEOPLE'S LIVES.

29:20 PEOPLE MOVE, PEOPLE CHANGE JOBS

29:22 ,YOUNG PEOPLE TURN 18, LIFE

29:24 HAPPENS AND OUR DEMOCRACY

29:26 SHOULD BE DESIGNED WITH THOSE

29:28 REALITIES IN MIND.

29:30 FOR 25 YEARS MASSPORT HAS

29:31 WORKED ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY

29:33 PARTNERS ACROSS THE

29:34 COMMONWEALTH TO STRENGTHEN

29:36 CIVIC CIVIC PARTICIPATION.

29:39 AS WE PROFIT AS WE PREPARE FOR

29:41 THIS ELECTION, WE WILL CONTINUE

29:43 DOING THAT WORK DISTRIBUTING

29:46 INFORMATION, MAKING PHONE CALLS

29:48 ,TABLING IN COMMUNITIES,

29:49 HOSTING FORUMS, EDUCATING

29:50 VOTERS AND MOBILIZING

29:52 VOLUNTEERS FOR ELECTION

29:53 PROTECTION.

29:54 AND WE WILL CONTINUE ADVOCATING

29:56 FOR A SYSTEM WHERE AN ELIGIBLE

29:58 VOTER WHO HAS MADE THE EFFORT

30:00 TO SHOW UP AND PARTICIPATE HAS

30:03 A MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITY TO DO

30:05 SO BECAUSE DEMOCRACY IS

30:07 STRONGEST WHEN ELIGIBLE VOTERS

30:08 ARE NOT PREVENTED FROM

30:10 PARTICIPATING BY BARRIERS THAT

30:12 CAN BE RESPONSIBLY REMOVED.

30:14 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR

30:16 YOUR COMMITMENT TO

30:17 STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY IN

30:19 MASSACHUSETTS.

30:20 THANK YOU.

30:20 THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHERYL.

30:22 UH, WE'LL NOW TURN IT OVER TO

30:24 TRACY.

30:24 TRACY, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

30:32 GOOD MORNING EVERYONE.

30:33 UH, MY NAME IS TRACY GRIFFITH.

30:36 I'M HERE TO TESTIFY ON BEHALF

30:37 OF THE ACLU OF MASSACHUSETTS

30:40 WHERE I DIRECT THE RACIAL

30:41 JUSTICE PROGRAM.

30:42 UM, AND WE'RE HERE SUPPORTING

30:44 THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL'S

30:45 COMMITTEE ON CENSUS

30:46 REDISTRICTING AND ELECTIONS

30:47 PARTICULARLY DOCKET NUMBER 0183

30:50 REGARDING VOTER ACCESSIBILITY

30:52 AND ELECTION PREPAREDNESS.

30:54 UM, YOU KNOW, AS IS THE

30:55 INTENTION OF THIS COMMITTEE, WE

30:57 AT THE ACLU OF MASSACHUSETTS

30:59 ARE SEEKING TO REMOVE BARRIERS

31:01 THAT PREVENT QUALIFIED VOTERS

31:02 FROM PARTICIPATING IN ELECTIONS

31:04 AND HAVING THEIR VOTES COUNTED

31:06 .

31:06 AND I WILL SPEAK TODAY VERY

31:08 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT ISSUES

31:10 ENCOUNTERED DURING THE RECENT

31:11 PRIMARY ELECTION THAT WE FEEL

31:13 NEED TO BE ADDRESSED TO ENSURE

31:15 THE NOVEMBER 3RD GENERAL

31:16 ELECTION IS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL

31:19 VOTERS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

31:21 UH, THE ACLU OF MASSACHUSETTS

31:23 IS PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE

31:24 ELECTION UH PROTECTION UM

31:27 PROGRAM AND OUR MANY PARTNERS

31:29 WHO ARE PARTICIPATING IN THIS

31:31 HEARING TODAY AS A PART OF THE

31:34 EP PROGRAM, WE CONDUCTED SITE

31:36 VISITS AND ASSISTED IN

31:38 VOLUNTEER SUPPORT AND

31:39 COORDINATION AT POLLING PLACES

31:40 IN ROXBURY, DORCHESTER,

31:43 MATTAPAN AND A VARIETY OF OTHER

31:45 PLACES AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH

31:46 .

31:46 OUR ROLE WAS TO OBSERVE ANY

31:48 ISSUES OR DISCREPANCIES THAT

31:50 COULD PREVENT OR DISCOURAGE A

31:52 REGISTERED VOTER FROM VOTING.

31:54 IN THE 2026 MASSACHUSETTS

31:56 PRIMARY ELECTION, THE MOST

31:58 PREVALENT ISSUES OBSERVED

32:00 DURING OUR WORK ON PRIMARY

32:02 ELECTION DAY WERE RELATED TO

32:03 SIGNAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY

32:07 ISSUES WITH ACCESSIBILITY AT

32:08 POLLING LOCATIONS IN ROXBURY,

32:11 DORCHESTER AND MATTAPAN WERE

32:13 THE MOST.

32:14 CONSISTENT AND GLARING PROBLEM

32:16 OBSERVED ON PRIMARY DAY.

32:18 MANY LOCATIONS HAD LITTLE TO NO

32:21 ADA DESIGNATED PARKING SPACES

32:23 AND WHEN ASKED WHY THIS WAS THE

32:25 CASE, ANSWERS RANGED FROM NOT

32:27 KNOWING THE PARKING SPACE HAD

32:29 TO BE PROVIDED TO THE FACT THAT

32:31 VERY FEW VOTERS AT THE POLLING

32:32 LOCATION NEEDED SUCH

32:34 ACCOMMODATION.

32:35 THAT IS NOT THE STANDARD AT

32:37 ORCHARD PARK COMMUNITY CENTER,

32:39 THE SIGN DESIGNATED THE PARKING

32:41 SPOT WAS SO FADED THAT IT WAS

32:44 DIFFICULT TO INITIALLY ASSESS

32:47 WHETHER IT WAS MEANT FOR ADA

32:49 USERS.

32:49 IT WAS ALSO THE ONLY SPACE

32:51 PROVIDED.

32:53 THERE WAS ALSO AN ISSUE

32:55 OF MULTIPLE SITES THAT HAD

32:56 HEAVY DOORS WITH NO AUTOMATED

32:58 DOOR OPENING FUNCTION, ALTHOUGH

33:00 THIS MAY NOT BE A REQUIREMENT,

33:03 IT CERTAINLY WOULD MAKE IT MORE

33:05 ACCESSIBLE ALTHOUGH THEY DID

33:06 HAVE COMPLIANT HANDLES ON THOSE

33:09 DOORS AT ONE LOCATION THE GREAT

33:12 HALL AT CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH

33:13 CENTER SIGNS THAT DIRECTED

33:16 TOWARD AN ADA ACCESSIBLE

33:17 ENTRANCE TOOK YOU AROUND THE

33:19 BUILDING, THEN UP A STEEP HILL

33:22 LEADING TO A DOOR THAT WAS

33:24 LOCKED.

33:25 YOU WERE FORCED TO GO THROUGH

33:27 THE MAIN ENTRANCE WHICH HAD

33:29 FIVE STEEP STEPS WITH NO

33:31 RAILING.

33:32 AT LEAST THAT DOOR WAS PROPPED

33:34 OPEN.

33:35 ALL OF THE LOCATIONS DID HAVE

33:38 AUTOMATIC MACHINES, AND POLL

33:39 WORKERS UNDERSTOOD HOW TO USE

33:41 THEM, SO THAT WAS A GOOD THING.

33:43 BUT ACCESSIBILITY AT THE

33:45 HIGGINSON LOUIS K THROUGH EIGHT

33:47 SCHOOL WAS VIRTUALLY

33:48 IMPOSSIBLE.

33:49 THIS WAS IN LARGE PART DUE TO

33:51 THE SCHOOLS STILL BEING OPEN

33:53 AND HAVING THEIR PROFESSIONAL

33:55 DEVELOPMENT DAY ON THE SAME DAY

33:57 AS THE PRIMARY, MEANING THAT

33:58 THE PRESENCE OF TEACHERS AND

34:01 PARENTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS

34:02 LEFT ALMOST NO PARKING

34:04 AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE AND THE

34:06 ADA SPOTS IN THE PARKING LOT

34:08 AND ON THE STREET WERE

34:09 THEREFORE TAKEN.

34:12 THE NEXT ISSUE THE SECOND

34:13 BIGGEST CHALLENGE VOTERS FACED

34:15 ON PRIMARY DAY WAS SIGNAGE.

34:18 THIS WAS ALSO AN ISSUE AT

34:20 ALMOST EVERY LOCATION,

34:23 ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH MULTIPLE

34:24 OPEN ENTRANCES.

34:26 MULTIPLE SITES REPORTED VOTERS

34:28 BEING CONFUSED ABOUT HOW TO

34:30 FIND THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE

34:31 POLLING LOCATION.

34:33 THE ONLY LOCATIONS OBSERVED

34:35 WHERE SIGNAGE WAS ADEQUATE HAD

34:37 ONE ENTRANCE, MAKING IT EASIER

34:40 TO DIRECT VOTERS SIGNS OFTEN

34:42 ONLY EXTENDED ABOUT 10 TO 15FT

34:44 FROM THE ENTRANCE.

34:46 MEANING IF YOU PARKED OR

34:47 APPROACHED FROM A DIFFERENT

34:48 DIRECTION AS WAS THE CASE FOR

34:50 HIGGINS AND LEWIS K THROUGH

34:51 EIGHT YOU WERE LEFT TO CLOSE TO

34:53 GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE MAIN

34:55 ENTRANCE TO SEE YOUR VERY FIRST

34:57 SIGN.

34:58 UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR

35:00 RECOMMENDATIONS IS THAT SIGNAGE

35:02 EXTEND AS FAR AS MAYBE 100FT

35:03 FROM THE MAIN ENTRANCE WITH

35:05 DIRECTIONAL SIGNS ON ALL SIDES

35:08 OF THE POLLING LOCATION.

35:11 MANY SIGNS WERE ALSO HARD TO

35:12 READ FROM A DISTANCE AND POORLY

35:14 PLACED AROUND LOCATIONS UM.

35:16 THIS LED TO REPORTS OF SOME

35:18 VOTERS INITIALLY BEING CONFUSED

35:20 ABOUT IF THEIR WARD AND

35:21 PRECINCT WERE INSIDE THE

35:23 CORRECT POLLING LOCATION.

35:25 THE MORE PROMINENT SIGNS WERE

35:26 PRONE TO COLLAPSING DUE TO

35:28 BEING MADE OF PAPER AND

35:29 OF COURSE IT RAINED ON PRIMARY

35:31 MORNING.

35:32 THESE ARE ISSUES THAT ARE QUITE

35:34 EASILY RESOLVED WITH A LITTLE

35:35 ATTENTION TO DETAIL,

35:37 PRE-ELECTION SITE AUDITS AND A

35:39 COLLABORATIVE WORKING

35:40 PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS

35:42 LIKE MANY OF THOSE HERE THAT

35:44 PROMOTE ELECTION PROTECTION AND

35:46 ARE ON THE GROUND THE DAY

35:48 OF THE ELECTION WATCHING FOR

35:49 PROBLEMS SUCH AS THESE.

35:51 I WANT TO THANK COUNCILORS

35:53 LOUIJEUNE AND PEPEN FOR

35:54 BRINGING US TOGETHER TODAY AND

35:57 TO CONTINUE TO MAKE VOTING

35:58 ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL ELIGIBLE

36:00 VOTERS HERE IN BOSTON.

36:02 THANK YOU.

36:04 THANK YOU SO MUCH, TRACY.

36:06 UM, AND THANK YOU FOR LAYING

36:08 OUT SOME ISSUES THAT WE NEED TO

36:10 WORK ON.

36:11 I DID SEE SOME ADMINISTRATION

36:13 WRITING DOWN SOME OF THE

36:14 ISSUES, SO I THINK THEY WERE

36:15 TAKING SOME OF THOSE TO HEARTS

36:16 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS

36:17 WHY WE HAVE THESE HEARINGS.

36:18 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

36:19 UH AND LASTLY WE HAVE A VIDEO

36:20 FROM RAHSAAN HALL, EXECUTIVE

36:22 DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN LEAGUE

36:24 OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

36:26 WHO WILL THAT WE WILL PLAY?

36:30 CHERYL LOUIJEUNE AND MEMBERS

36:31 OF THE COMMITTEE THANK YOU FOR

36:33 THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY.

36:35 I'M RAHSAAN HALL, PRESIDENT AND

36:37 CEO OF THE URBAN LEAGUE

36:38 OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

36:40 FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES

36:41 VOTING RIGHTS HAVE BEEN CENTRAL

36:43 TO MY WORK.

36:44 I HAVE PARTICIPATED IN ELECTION

36:46 PROTECTION EFFORTS SINCE 2004

36:48 AND THE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL

36:50 RIGHTS I WORKED ON LITIGATION

36:52 TO EXPAND VOTER REGISTRATION

36:54 ACCESS UNDER THE NATIONAL VOTER

36:55 REGISTRATION ACT AT THE ACLU

36:58 OF MASSACHUSETTS, I WAS

36:59 INVOLVED IN LITIGATION

37:00 CHALLENGING MASSACHUSETTS VOTER

37:03 REGISTRATION CUTOFF.

37:04 I'VE ADVOCATED FOR FAIR AND

37:06 REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS

37:07 THROUGH THE DRAWING DEMOCRACY

37:09 COALITION.

37:10 DURING THE 2011 AND 2021

37:13 REDISTRICTING EFFORTS THROUGH

37:14 DRAWING DEMOCRACY COALITION UH,

37:17 THE PROCESS THAT ALSO INCLUDED

37:19 BOSTON'S 2012 REDISTRICTING.

37:21 I'VE ALSO BEEN A LONG TIME

37:23 PARTICIPANT IN THE ELECTION

37:25 MODERNIZATION COALITION, WORKED

37:26 THROUGH THE MASKED COUNT'S

37:28 COALITION TO PROMOTE A FAIR AND

37:30 ACCURATE CENSUS AND CURRENTLY

37:32 SERVE WITH RANKED CHOICE FOSTER

37:35 I OFFER THAT BACKGROUND BECAUSE

37:37 ACCESS TO THE BALLOT AND

37:39 COMPETENT ELECTION

37:40 ADMINISTRATION ARE INSEPARABLE.

37:43 DOCKET ZERO 183 APPROPRIATELY

37:46 CALLS FOR EXAMINING BALLOT

37:48 PLANNING, POLL WORKER

37:49 RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING,

37:51 COMMUNICATIONS ACCESSIBILITY

37:52 AND COORDINATION BETWEEN

37:54 MUNICIPAL AND STATE OFFICIALS

37:57 THAT DOCKET UH, IN LIGHT

37:59 OF BOSTON'S RECENT HISTORY

38:00 DEMONSTRATES WHY THAT

38:03 EXAMINATION MATTERS.

38:05 IN 2024, MULTIPLE PRECINCTS

38:07 LACKED SUFFICIENT BALLOTS,

38:09 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS BECAME

38:10 OVERWHELMED AND VOTERS

38:12 EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT DELAYS

38:13 .

38:13 THE SECRETARY OF THE

38:15 COMMONWEALTH SUBSEQUENTLY

38:16 ORDERED AN OVERHAUL OF THE

38:18 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT AND STATE

38:19 OVERSIGHT.

38:20 THROUGH THIS YEAR.

38:22 THERE HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT

38:23 IMPROVEMENTS SINCE THEN

38:25 INCLUDING EXPANDED POLL,

38:26 EXPANDED POLL WORKER

38:28 RECRUITMENT TRAINING, IMPROVED

38:31 COMMUNICATIONS AND GREATER

38:32 COORDINATION WITH STATE

38:33 OFFICIALS AND THOSE

38:35 IMPROVEMENTS SHOULD CONTINUE.

38:36 THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IN

38:38 THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT WHERE

38:40 THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

38:41 DEPLOYED MONITORS TO BOSTON AND

38:43 OTHER MASSACHUSETTS POLLING

38:45 LOCATIONS DURING THIS YEAR'S

38:46 PRIMARY.

38:47 THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

38:48 DESCRIBES THIS AS FEDERAL

38:51 ELECTION LAW MONITORING, WHICH

38:53 HAS THE SIGNIFICANT AND

38:56 IMPORTANT HISTORICAL PRECEDENT

38:58 WHICH WHAT THE DEPARTMENT

39:00 OF JUSTICE RECENTLY DID DOES

39:01 NOT MEET THAT STANDARD.

39:04 AT THE SAME TIME, WE SHOULD BE

39:05 ATTENTIVE TO ANY ACTIONS OR

39:07 MESSAGING THAT COULD INTIMIDATE

39:09 OR DISCOURAGE ELIGIBLE VOTERS.

39:11 THIS IS NOT A MOMENT TO RETREAT

39:13 IT'S A MOMENT TO LEAN IN.

39:16 BOSTON SHOULD ENSURE THAT

39:17 ELECTIONS STAFF, EQUIPMENT,

39:19 BALLOTS, LANGUAGE ACCESS,

39:22 ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS,

39:23 COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND

39:24 CONTINGENCY PLANS ARE FULLY

39:27 PREPARED AND THE CITY SHOULD

39:28 CONTINUE WORKING CLOSELY WITH

39:30 THE SECRETARY OF THE

39:31 COMMONWEALTH AND WITH THE

39:33 NONPROFITS AND CIVIL SOCIETY

39:35 ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE LONG

39:36 WORKED TO ENSURE FAIR,

39:39 ACCESSIBLE AND EFFICIENTLY

39:40 ADMINISTER ELECTIONS.

39:43 FINALLY, THE URBAN LEAGUE

39:45 OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

39:46 SUPPORTS ELECTION DAY VOTER

39:48 REGISTRATION AND THE PURPOSE

39:50 REFLECTED IN DOCKET 1805.

39:52 THE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZES THAT

39:54 QUESTION FOUR WOULD ALLOW

39:56 ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS TO REGISTER

39:58 OR UPDATE THEIR ADDRESSES AT

40:00 POLLING PLACES ON ELECTION DAY,

40:02 SUBJECT TO THE RESIDENCY AND

40:04 ELIGIBILITY SAFEGUARDS OF THIS

40:06 DOCKET.

40:07 UH, THE SECRETARY OF THE

40:08 COMMONWEALTH LIKEWISE CONFIRMS

40:11 THOSE REQUIREMENTS THROUGH THE

40:13 ELECTION MODERNIZATION

40:14 COALITION.

40:15 THE URBAN LEAGUE HAS

40:17 CONSISTENTLY SUPPORTED SAME DAY

40:19 REGISTRATION BECAUSE WE VIEW IT

40:21 AS ONE IMPORTANT PIECE OF A

40:22 BROADER MOSAIC OF REFORMS

40:25 DESIGNED TO REMOVE UNNECESSARY

40:27 BARRIERS AND EXPAND

40:28 PARTICIPATION.

40:30 OUR ADVOCACY HAS NEVER BEEN

40:32 ABOUT BENEFITING ONE

40:33 NEIGHBORHOOD, ONE CONSTITUENCY

40:36 OR ONE POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE.

40:38 IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT

40:40 ENSURING THAT EVERY ELIGIBLE

40:43 BOSTON RESIDENT CAN

40:45 PARTICIPATE, THAT EVERY LAWFUL

40:46 VOTE CAN BE CAST AND COUNTED

40:49 AND THAT OUR ELECTION SYSTEM

40:51 EARNS THE CONFIDENCE OF THE

40:53 PEOPLE IT SERVES.

40:54 THAT HAS BEEN THE WORK OF THE

40:56 URBAN LEAGUE FOR OVER 107 YEARS

40:59 HERE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON AND

41:01 THE SURROUNDING AREA, AND WE

41:03 HOPE TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE

41:05 WORK OF THIS COMMITTEE, UH, THE

41:08 COUNCIL AND THE CITY TO ENSURE

41:10 THAT THAT CONTINUES TO BE THE

41:11 CASE FOR THE REST OF THE CITY

41:14 OF BOSTON AND THE COMMONWEALTH.

41:17 THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ON THANK

41:20 YOU TO ALL OF THE PANELISTS.

41:21 UM, WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY

41:24 COUNCILOR WEBER.

41:24 I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF MY

41:25 COLLEAGUES WE'RE GOING TO MOVE

41:26 TO QUESTIONS IF YOU WANT TO

41:27 OFFER AN OPENING OR IF WE COULD

41:29 JUST GO RIGHT INTO QUESTIONS

41:30 OKAY.

41:30 THANK YOU.

41:31 I ALSO RECEIVED AN ABSENCE

41:33 LETTER FROM UM COUNCILOR AND WE

41:37 GAVE HER THEN A DEAR CHAIR

41:38 LOUIJEUNE MR. CLERK AND

41:39 COUNCIL COLLEAGUES I REGRET TO

41:40 INFORM ME THAT I AM UNABLE TO

41:42 ATTEND THIS MORNING'S COMMITTEE

41:43 ON CENSUS SHOOTING AND

41:44 ELECTIONS HEARING ON DOCKET

41:46 NUMBER 0183 ORDER FOR A HEARING

41:48 REGARDING VOTER ACCESSIBILITY

41:49 AND ELECTION PREPAREDNESS AND

41:52 1805 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT

41:54 OF QUESTION FOUR UM AS A

41:56 CO-SPONSOR OF DOCKET 0183, I'M

41:57 COMMITTED TO ENSURING THAT OUR

41:58 ELECTIONS ARE CARRIED OUT

41:59 EFFECTIVELY.

42:00 EVERY VOTER SHOULD BE ABLE TO

42:01 CAST THEIR BALLOT AT THEIR

42:02 POLLING LOCATION NO MATTER THE

42:03 ELECTION.

42:03 WITH OUR UPCOMING STATE

42:05 ELECTIONS, IT IS IMPERATIVE

42:06 THAT THE BOSTON ELECTION

42:07 COMMISSION HAS ALREADY

42:08 REMEDIED, UH, PREVIOUS BALLOT

42:10 PRINTING MISHAPS TRAIN POLL

42:11 WORKERS TO THE BEST OF THEIR

42:12 ABILITY ON SCIENCE AND

42:13 TECHNOLOGY AND CLARIFIED ANY

42:15 CONFUSION TO SUPPORT BOSTON'S

42:16 VOTE BOSTON'S VOTERS TO HAVE AN

42:18 EXPERIENCE FREE OF OBSTACLES.

42:19 I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH ANY

42:20 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS UPON

42:21 REVIEWING MY STAFF'S NOTES AND

42:24 WATCHING THE RECORDING, PLEASE

42:25 DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT MY

42:26 STAFF WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

42:28 SO THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES.

42:29 THANK YOU AGAIN TO THE

42:30 ADVOCATES AND THANK YOU FOR

42:31 UPLIFTING SOMETHING THAT I

42:33 OMITTED IN THE BEGINNING.

42:34 RIGHT.

42:34 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S

42:36 ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE US AND

42:38 OUR VOTERS IN THE ELECTION

42:41 PROCESS.

42:41 UH, WE KNOW THAT VOTING IS

42:43 SECRET AND WE KNOW THAT

42:44 ESPECIALLY IN THIS CLIMATE, UH,

42:46 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT

42:48 IN ANYTHING UH, BEYOND WHAT IS

42:51 PERMISSIBLE AND WHAT IS LEGAL

42:54 UH CREATES FEAR AMONG A LOT

42:56 OF COMMUNITIES AND IS

42:57 COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY AND IS

42:59 DETRIMENTAL TO THE WORK

43:00 OF DEMOCRACY.

43:00 SO THANK YOU.

43:01 I NEVER SAW HIM UPLIFTED IT UM

43:03 AND OTHERS AS WELL.

43:04 SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK

43:05 YOU FOR REMINDING US OF THE

43:06 CLIMATE THAT WE'RE IN AND WHY

43:09 WE NEED TO EVEN DOUBLE DOWN ON

43:11 BEING INTENTIONAL ABOUT MAKING

43:13 DEMOCRACY ACCESSIBLE.

43:14 TO EVERY PERSON.

43:14 SO I'M JUST GOING TO START OFF

43:16 WITH SOME QUESTIONS I'M GOING

43:17 TO GIVE MYSELF UH TOTAL

43:19 OF SEVEN MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS

43:21 AND MY COLLEAGUES WILL HAVE TWO

43:22 MINUTES NOW EVERYONE EVERYONE

43:23 HAVE WE WILL HAVE SEVEN MINUTES

43:26 FOR QUESTIONS AND THEN IF YOU

43:28 NEED TO WE'LL DO A SECOND

43:29 ROUND.

43:29 IT'S FRIDAY Y'ALL GOTTA BRING

43:31 SOME LEVITY INTO THIS OKAY UM

43:33 SO MY FIRST QUESTION UH IT WAS

43:36 MENTIONED AND WE TALKED ABOUT

43:37 IT AND WE SAW IT IN SOME

43:38 JURISDICTIONS UH, DURING THE UH

43:41 PRIMARY BUT THERE ARE INACTIVE

43:43 VOTERS WHO ARE REMOVED FROM THE

43:45 VOTER ROLLS.

43:45 IF YOU COULD TALK A LITTLE BIT

43:46 ABOUT THAT, DO WE SEE THAT IN

43:48 BOSTON?

43:48 I KNOW THAT WE SAW IT WAS WE

43:50 SAW IT IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS.

43:51 AND WHAT IS THE EFFORT BEING

43:53 DONE ON STATEWIDE TO SORT OF UH

43:55 ,REVERSE THE TREND OF REMOVING

43:57 INACTIVE VOTERS WHO ARE DEEMED

43:59 TO BE INACTIVE AND WHY THEY'RE

44:00 DEEMED INACTIVE FROM THE VOTING

44:02 ROLLS.

44:06 UH, SO I MEAN, I JUST KNOW THAT

44:08 WE HAVE LEGISLATION THAT WE'RE

44:09 TRYING TO ADVANCE TO DECOUPLE

44:11 THAT SO THAT WE CANNOT HAVE UM

44:13 ,YOU NOT FILLING OUT THE

44:15 CENSUS IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT

44:16 PUTS YOU ON THAT LIST?

44:18 UM, BUT WE DO HAVE INACTIVE

44:21 VOTERS AND WE HAVE A BUNCH OF.

44:23 GO AHEAD.

44:25 YEAH.

44:25 I WOULD JUST ADD TO THAT

44:27 THAT YES, THE MUNICIPAL CENSUS

44:28 WE DO SEE AS THE NUMBER ONE

44:30 BARRIER AND THE REASON FOR

44:32 INACTIVE VOTERS UH.

44:34 VOTERS TO BE DEEMED INACTIVE IN

44:36 MASSACHUSETTS.

44:37 I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW

44:38 THINGS AS PART OF OUR

44:39 LEGISLATIVE PUSH FOR THIS IS

44:41 THAT MASSACHUSETTS IS THE ONLY

44:42 STATE IN THE NATION.

44:43 THAT HAS THE.

44:44 MUNICIPAL CENSUS AND THE ANNUAL

44:46 STREET LISTING TIED TO VOTER

44:48 REGISTRATION IN THIS WAY THIS

44:50 IS A UNIQUE PROBLEM TO

44:52 MASSACHUSETTS AND UNFORTUNATELY

44:52 NOT SOMETHING WE LEAD IN.

44:54 UM, WE ALSO KNOW THAT, YOU

44:56 KNOW, AS CHERYL PUT GREAT UH,

44:58 VERY WELL IN HER REMARKS THAT

45:00 VOTER EDUCATION CAN ONLY GO SO

45:02 FAR THE AT.

45:03 THE.

45:04 LEAGUE WE CONTINUE TO REMIND

45:05 VOTERS TO UM FILL OUT THEIR

45:07 ANNUAL STREET LISTING BUT ONLY

45:09 ONE STREET LISTING IS SENT PER

45:11 HOUSEHOLD AND IN MANY UM, YOU

45:13 KNOW, DISTRICTS IF YOU'RE A

45:15 RENTER IT CAN BE.

45:16 EVEN MORE COMPLICATED.

45:17 TO GET YOUR STREET LISTING.

45:18 ALL IT TAKES IS THE ONE PERSON

45:20 WHO GRABS THE MAIL IN YOUR

45:21 HOUSEHOLD.

45:21 UM, ACTUALLY MY FIANCÉ DID THIS

45:23 TO US WHERE HE THREW OUT THE

45:25 STREET LISTING.

45:25 I HAD TO FISH IT OUT AND, UH,

45:27 GET THAT TOO.

45:28 AND IF IT'S NOT RETURNED TO

45:29 ALL THE VOTERS IN THE HOUSEHOLD

45:30 THEN ARE DEEMED.

45:31 YES, ALL THE VOTERS IN THE

45:33 HOUSEHOLD ARE THEN.

45:33 DEEMED I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IN

45:34 BOSTON WE DO WE DO THIS DO WE

45:37 DO THIS TO THE SAME EXTENT THAT

45:38 WE DO?

45:38 WE DO OKAY.

45:39 WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT AT THE ON

45:41 THE NEXT PANEL.

45:41 SO YEAH SO I WOULD HIGHLIGHT

45:43 THAT IS THE STREET LISTING.

45:44 WE HAVE HAD LEGISLATION PUT

45:46 FORWARD TO DECOUPLE THE

45:47 MUNICIPAL CENSUS.

45:48 WE'LL CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR

45:49 THAT.

45:49 BUT IT IS.

45:50 A WRAPAROUND APPROACH AND VOTER

45:51 EDUCATION CAN ONLY GET US SO

45:53 FAR IF.

45:54 WE.

45:54 DO NOT.

45:54 REMOVE THAT TIE TO THE

45:55 CENSUS.

45:56 THANK YOU.

45:56 I KNOW THAT THIS WAS A MAJOR

45:57 ISSUE IN THE LAST MUNICIPAL

45:58 ELECTION AS WELL IN OTHER

46:00 JURISDICTIONS AND SO I'D LOVE

46:02 TO WE DOES HAVE TO BE AT THIS

46:04 MOMENT BUT IF SOMEONE CAN NAME

46:05 THE BILL SO WE CAN SEE WHAT

46:07 THIS COMMITTEE CAN DO TO BE IN

46:08 SUPPORT, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL

46:10 IF ANYONE HAS THE BILL NUMBER

46:11 AND STATUS OF WHERE IT STANDS

46:12 AND HOW AND WHO FILED IT AND

46:14 HOW WE CAN BE SUPPORTIVE.

46:16 I CAN GRAB THAT FOR YOU IN JUST

46:17 A SECOND.

46:18 I HAVE OUR TRACKER PULLED UP.

46:20 THANKS, BROOKE.

46:21 I KNOW YOU ALSO SPOKE TO

46:22 THIS SO I'M NOT SURE IF YOU

46:23 WANTED TO SHARE.

46:24 I THINK.

46:25 UM I AM A BOSTON RESIDENT.

46:28 I LIVE IN JAMAICA PLAIN.

46:29 UM, AND I SIMILARLY I RECENTLY

46:33 MOVED AND SORT OF SOME OF MY

46:37 MAIL GOT LOST IN THE SHUFFLE

46:38 AND UM BUT WE ALSO RECEIVED THE

46:42 THE CENSUS UM FORM AND LUCKILY

46:46 I DID FILL IT OUT.

46:47 BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK UM IT'S

46:49 IMPORTANT THAT WE FOCUS ON

46:51 DECOUPLING.

46:51 I KNOW THAT UM THE ISSUE IS IS

46:55 PREVALENT IN BOSTON.

46:56 THERE ARE CERTAIN CERTAINLY.

46:57 OTHER MUNICIPALITIES WHERE IT

46:59 WAS A.

46:59 BIGGER ISSUE DURING THE PRIMARY

47:01 THERE.

47:01 WAS ONE POLLING PLACE IN

47:03 LAWRENCE.

47:04 WHERE 80%.

47:06 OF THE VOTERS THAT SHOWED UP

47:08 WERE ON THE INACTIVE LIST,

47:09 WHICH IS LIKE TRULY REMARKABLE

47:12 TO THINK THAT THE NUMBER WAS

47:14 80%.

47:16 SO I DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC DATA

47:17 FOR WHAT.

47:18 IT LOOKED LIKE AT.

47:18 POLLING PLACES IN BOSTON IN

47:20 PARTICULAR.

47:20 BUT I KNOW THIS IS AN ISSUE

47:22 THAT REALLY AFFECTS EVERY

47:23 CORNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH

47:24 BECAUSE EVERYONE IS GETTING

47:26 THAT THE SAME MAILINGS.

47:28 YEAH THANK YOU.

47:29 YEAH I I'VE HEARD ABOUT IT FROM

47:30 A NUMBER OF VOTERS PARTICULARLY

47:31 IF UH I HEAR ABOUT IT FROM

47:33 HAITIAN VOTERS UM IN OTHER

47:35 JURISDICTIONS.

47:35 AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

47:37 THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE

47:38 CAN WORK ON LIKE IS IT IS THE

47:41 ARE WE AT THE POINT WHERE ANY

47:43 SORT OF BENEFIT THAT WE THINK

47:44 WE'RE GETTING FROM REMOVING

47:45 PEOPLE FROM THE ROLLS, UM, IS

47:48 COMPLETELY OUTWEIGHED BY THE

47:49 HARM THAT IS HAPPENING?

47:50 AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WE MAY

47:52 BE AT THAT TIPPING POINT AND WE

47:54 MAY HAVE BEEN THERE FOR SOME

47:55 SOME TIME.

47:55 OKAY, I'M TALKING TOO MUCH SO I

47:57 WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO MY

47:58 QUESTIONS BUT UM UH MY NEXT OH

48:00 AND WE'VE BEEN JOINED BY UH

48:02 COUNCILOR AT LARGE.

48:02 YOU'LL HEAR MEJIA.

48:03 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS

48:04 MORNING.

48:04 UM.

48:05 WANTED TO ASK AS WE THINK

48:08 ABOUT QUESTION FOUR AND THE

48:10 IMPORTANCE OF SAME DAY UM, UH,

48:13 VOTER REGISTRATION CAN YOU TALK

48:14 ABOUT WHAT ELSE THE CITY SHOULD

48:16 BE DOING IN ORDER TO PREPARE

48:17 FOR THE POTENTIAL AND HOPEFUL

48:19 IMPLEMENTATION OF IT IN 2028 TO

48:22 ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE

48:23 OF THE CRITIQUES IS THAT, YOU

48:24 KNOW, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT

48:25 THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO

48:27 VOTE ARE THE ACTUAL ONES

48:30 VOTING?

48:30 SO IF ANYONE COULD COULD SPEAK

48:31 TO THAT THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

48:37 YEAH.

48:37 AND THANK YOU SO MUCH

48:38 COUNCILOR FOR BRINGING THAT UP

48:39 .

48:40 BEFORE I GET INTO THAT I JUST

48:41 FIND THE BILL NUMBER FOR THE

48:43 DECOUPLING BILL.

48:44 SO IT'S HOUSE BILL 799 SENATE

48:45 BILL 503 UM PRESENTED BY

48:48 REPRESENTATIVE ARRIAGA.

48:50 IN.

48:50 THE HOUSE AND UM SENATOR CINDY

48:52 CREAM IN THE SENATE UM AND IT

48:54 IS CURRENTLY UM SENT TO STUDY

48:56 UH DUE TO THE NEW RULES UM IN

48:59 THE HOUSE OR IN THE STATE HOUSE

49:01 BUT SPEAKING TO THE

49:03 IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTION DAY

49:04 REGISTRATION, THE SUPPORT OF WE

49:07 CANNOT UM, UNDERMINE HOW MUCH

49:08 THE SUPPORT OF THE CITY

49:10 COUNCIL HERE IN BOSTON WOULD

49:11 HELP US.

49:11 WITH THIS.

49:12 IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICALLY IN

49:13 HELPING US IDENTIFY THE WAYS

49:15 THAT.

49:16 UM.

49:17 WE CAN WORK BETTER AS

49:18 ADVOCATES TO SUPPORT

49:19 IMPLEMENTATION.

49:20 UM, WE KNOW THAT THIS IT HAS

49:23 THE SUPPORT OF OUR CHIEF CLERK

49:25 ,UM, SECRETARY GALVIN WHO

49:26 BROUGHT IT TO THE BALLOT.

49:27 BUT WE.

49:28 ALSO KNOW THAT THIS IS

49:29 SOMETHING THAT TAKES A LOT

49:30 OF CARE.

49:31 UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE

49:33 IMPLEMENTATION AND HOW BEST TO

49:35 PREPARE FOR IT.

49:36 UM, I'M WORKING DIRECTLY WITH

49:38 THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE AS

49:39 ALWAYS.

49:40 WHAT I HIGHLY RECOMMEND UM,

49:41 THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THE.

49:42 DIFFERENT.

49:43 WAYS THAT.

49:43 HAVE A FUNDING.

49:44 CAN HELP WITH THE.

49:45 IMPLEMENTATION UM, AS WELL AS

49:47 DIFFERENT WAYS TO UM EDUCATE

49:49 AND TRAIN ON ELECTION DAY

49:52 REGISTRATION.

49:53 UM, SOMETHING I ALWAYS LIKE TO

49:54 POINT TO AS WELL IS THAT

49:56 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION OR

49:57 SOME FORM OF SAME DAY

49:58 REGISTRATION IS ACTUALLY NOT

50:00 QUITE NEW TO MASSACHUSETTS.

50:01 IT'S NEW IN THE SENSE OF ON

50:03 ELECTION DAY.

50:04 BUT DURING THE EARLY VOTING

50:05 PERIOD WE DO HAVE A DAYS

50:07 OVERLAP WHERE OUR POLL WORKERS

50:09 AND OUR AWESOME ADMINISTRATORS

50:11 ARE USED TO DOING A FORM

50:12 OF VOTER REGISTRATION ON AN

50:14 ELECTION DAY.

50:15 SO I WOULD LOOK TO THOSE

50:17 PROCESSES AND UM I APOLOGIZE

50:19 I'M NOT A RESIDENT OF BOSTON SO

50:21 I CAN'T SPEAK TO UH THAT HERE.

50:24 I WOULD LOOK TO OUR OTHER

50:25 PANELISTS FOR THAT.

50:25 BUT UM, AS FAR AS THAT I ALWAYS

50:28 LOOK TO HOW ARE THOSE PROCESSES

50:29 GOING AND CAN THAT BE EXPANDED

50:31 FURTHER?

50:32 THANK YOU.

50:33 UM, CHERYL, YOU.

50:34 WANT TO.

50:34 I.

50:35 WAS JUST GOING TO SAY I'VE

50:36 WITNESSED IT HAPPENING IN NEW

50:37 HAMPSHIRE.

50:38 WE TOOK A BUNCH OF FOLK OVER

50:39 TO.

50:40 NEW HAMPSHIRE TO WATCH.

50:41 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

50:42 HAPPENING.

50:43 IT WAS SEAMLESS AND I WE THINK

50:45 THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE IN IN 23

50:47 OTHER STATES AND IN WASHINGTON

50:49 DC THAT WE COULD PULL.

50:50 FROM SOME OF THE SUCCESSES THAT

50:52 THEY'VE HAD IN IMPLEMENTING UM

50:54 EDR BUT TRAINING AND EDUCATION.

50:56 SO JUST YOU KNOW, WHAT WE DO IN

50:58 ANY WAY IS CRITICAL AS WE BRING

51:00 IT FORWARD.

51:00 THANK YOU CHERYL AND TRACY I

51:02 JUST WANT TO SAY IF YOU

51:03 WHENEVER YOU WANT TO JUMP IN TO

51:04 ALSO TRACY FEEL FREE.

51:06 SO UM I AM NOW GOING TO MOVE ON

51:08 TO UH MY COLLEAGUES AND IF I

51:09 HAVE MORE QUESTIONS SO THERE

51:10 WILL BE A SECOND ROUND I'LL ASK

51:12 A SECOND ROUND BUT UM,

51:13 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON, YOU

51:14 HAVE THE FLOOR.

51:15 UM THANK YOU.

51:16 UM, I.

51:17 THINK.

51:18 THIS ISSUE.

51:18 WITHIN ACTIVE.

51:19 VOTING UM, IT'S DEFINITELY

51:21 NEEDED.

51:21 WE NEED TO ADDRESS IT.

51:23 UH, I'M CURIOUS THE THE

51:25 LAURENS PRECINCT WHERE THE, UH

51:27 ,INACTIVE VOTERS WHO WERE HAD

51:30 TO PROBABLY TAKE A PROVISIONAL

51:31 BALLOT UM.

51:33 UH.

51:34 IS IS THE CURRENT IS THE

51:36 CURRENT IMMIGRATION CLIMATE UM,

51:39 IMPACTING YOU KNOW, ARE FOLKS

51:42 AFRAID TO UM, RETURN THEIR

51:45 MUNICIPAL CENTERS?

51:46 UH, I'M JUST CURIOUS JUST.

51:49 THAT'S I.

51:50 CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT

51:51 SPECIFICALLY, BUT I DO KNOW

51:53 THAT.

51:53 FOLKS WHO COME FROM MIXED

51:55 STATUS HOUSEHOLDS.

51:56 WHO ARE.

51:57 INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALS OF COLOR

52:00 UM, WHO ARE IMMIGRANTS

52:01 THEMSELVES CERTAINLY.

52:02 ARE A LITTLE BIT.

52:03 MORE WARY OF ANY TYPE

52:04 OF GOVERNMENT MAIL.

52:05 UM AND I THINK THAT AND THEN

52:08 ALSO IF YOU'RE AN INACTIVE

52:09 VOTER YOU HAVE TO SHOW AN ID UM

52:11 AND SOMETIMES THAT IT DOESN'T

52:13 HAVE TO BE A PHOTO ID BUT STILL

52:16 PEOPLE.

52:16 GET A LITTLE KIND OF ON EDGE

52:18 WHEN THEY'RE ASKED TO PRESENT A

52:19 FORM OF IDENTIFICATION EVEN IF

52:20 THEY ARE AN ELIGIBLE VOTER.

52:21 AND SO I THINK ALL OF THESE

52:23 SORT OF.

52:24 LET'S CALL IT.

52:26 JUST LIKE BUREAUCRATIC.

52:27 PAPERWORK FOR LACK OF.

52:28 A BETTER TERM.

52:29 IT IT DEFINITELY STANDS TO

52:31 CHILL ELIGIBLE VOTERS, UM,

52:33 PARTICULARLY FROM THESE MOST

52:34 VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES.

52:36 THANK YOU.

52:36 UM SO SAME TO VOTER

52:39 REGISTRATION REALLY SEEMS LIKE

52:40 A NO BRAINER TO ME BUT UM AND

52:42 THESE 24 OTHER STATES HAVE BEEN

52:44 DOING IT.

52:45 UM, UH, ARE THERE PARTICULAR

52:49 BARRIERS IN MASSACHUSETTS THAT

52:51 YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE IF WE HAD

52:53 AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE, WHY

52:55 IS IT SUCH A CHALLENGE HERE?

52:58 ARE THERE PARTICULAR BARRIERS

53:00 THAT PEOPLE HOLD UP?

53:03 AND SO WE COULDN'T I THINK

53:04 IT'S.

53:04 CALLED LEGISLATORS.

53:05 YOU JUST.

53:06 CAN'T JUST GET IT.

53:07 YOU SAID IT MIGHT BE.

53:09 NO I THINK THAT IS A PART

53:10 OF IT.

53:10 WE I CAME TO MASS VOTE AS I

53:12 SAID IN MY REMARKS IN.

53:13 2008 AS AN ORGANIZER TO PASS

53:16 EDR AND WE'VE BEEN AT IT WE'VE

53:18 BEEN AT IT.

53:18 AND TO YOUR POINT, COUNCILOR,

53:21 IT IS A NO BRAINER.

53:22 THERE ARE BARRIERS AT.

53:23 THE STATEHOUSE.

53:24 I'M JUST.

53:25 GOING TO SAY IT.

53:25 THERE ARE.

53:26 BARRIERS AT THE STATEHOUSE

53:27 THAT.

53:27 ARE PREVENTING THIS FROM

53:28 HAPPENING AND I'M NOT SURE IF

53:31 IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T BELIEVE

53:32 THAT.

53:32 IT WORKS OR.

53:33 THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE

53:35 THINKING INITIALLY HAVE NOT

53:37 COME TRUE OR ARE NOT TRUE.

53:40 AND NOW IT'S A THING OF DIGGING

53:41 IN.

53:41 THAT'S HOW I FEEL THAT YOU

53:43 KNOW, DIGGING IN WE'RE NOT

53:44 GOING TO MOVE BECAUSE AND WE

53:46 HAVE SO MUCH WE HAVE OVER 69%

53:49 OF THE OF MASSACHUSETTS

53:51 ELIGIBLE VOTERS THAT ARE IN

53:54 FAVOR OF ELECTION DAY

53:57 REGISTRATION.

53:58 SO SO IN TERMS OF UM, WHO THE

54:01 FOLKS THAT ARE THE MOST

54:02 IMPACTED BY THE INABILITY TO,

54:05 YOU KNOW, REGISTERED SAME DAY

54:07 VOTER REGISTRATION.

54:08 I THINK YOU KNOW.

54:11 SO IT'S AN ACROSS THE BOARD

54:13 PROBLEM.

54:14 UM, YOU KNOW.

54:15 I ALWAYS POINT TO ANYONE IN.

54:17 THE COMMONWEALTH CAN BECOME

54:18 A VOTER AFFECTED BY THIS AT THE

54:20 LEAGUE WE ALWAYS POINT TO ANY

54:22 MARRIED WOMAN IF YOU GET

54:23 MARRIED AT THE WRONG TIME AND

54:24 CHANGE.

54:24 YOUR NAME AT THE WRONG TIME,

54:25 YOU ARE.

54:26 NOW AFFECTED BY THE LACK

54:27 OF ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION.

54:29 BUT WHERE WE POINT TWO DIRECTLY

54:30 AS PART OF THIS CAMPAIGN ARE

54:32 RENTERS.

54:33 OUR WORKING CLASS.

54:35 UM FOLKS AND UH DISABLED FOLKS

54:38 AS WELL AS ANYONE WHO HAS THAT

54:41 UM INABILITY OR LACK OF ABILITY

54:42 TO GET IN FRONT OF UM EITHER

54:45 THEIR ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATORS

54:47 ACCESS.

54:47 TO INTERNET.

54:48 IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY

54:49 IMPORTANT AS WELL AS IF YOU'RE,

54:50 YOU KNOW, WORKING TO TRY AND

54:52 USE PUBLIC ACCESS IF YOU'RE A

54:53 LIGHT WORKER, YOU KNOW

54:55 LIBRARY'S CLOSED AND YOU CAN'T

54:56 GET ONLINE TO ONLY VOTE TO

54:58 REGISTER ONLINE.

54:59 SO THERE IS A WIDE VARIETY

55:01 OF PEOPLE WE POINT DIRECTLY TO

55:02 RENTERS IN THE WORKING CLASS

55:04 WHO.

55:04 THIS WAY.

55:05 WE'D SEE THE WIDE MARGIN

55:06 AFFECTING BUT TRULY IT CAN BE

55:08 ANYONE AT ANY TIME THAT NEEDS

55:09 ELECTION DAY VOTER.

55:10 REGISTRATION AND I JUST WANT.

55:12 TO MAKE SURE WE LIFT UP LOW

55:14 INCOME CITIZENS BECAUSE THEY

55:15 TEND TO MOVE MORE FREQUENTLY.

55:17 YEAH SO.

55:18 AND AND I'LL JUST ADD TO THAT I

55:20 THINK I THINK THIS GOES TO SHOW

55:22 THAT IT REALLY IS IT COULD BE

55:23 ANYONE UM BUT I THINK LOW

55:26 INCOME FOLKS WHO ARE OF WORKING

55:28 CLASS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY

55:30 PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THEY MIGHT

55:33 NOT HAVE ACCESSIBLE

55:34 TRANSPORTATION TO TO GO THEY

55:36 MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE OFF

55:37 OF WORK TWO DAYS VERSUS IF YOU

55:39 HAVE JUST ONE DAY TO GO TO A

55:41 POLLING PLACE AND YOU KNOW YOU

55:42 CAN BOTH REGISTER AND VOTE ON

55:44 THAT SAME DAY, THAT BECOMES AND

55:46 IF YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH CHILD

55:47 CARE RIGHT, IT JUST BECOMES SO

55:49 MUCH EASIER IF IT'S A ONE STOP

55:50 SHOP FOR FOR THE WHOLE PROCESS

55:52 .

55:53 SO SORRY I NEVER STARTED YOUR

55:55 TIME OUT IF.

55:56 FOR MORE MINUTES.

55:59 5558 SORRY.

56:02 SO UM CHERYL, YOU SAID YOU WENT

56:03 UP TO NEW NEW HAMPSHIRE TO

56:05 OBSERVE AND OBSERVE WHAT THEY

56:06 DID.

56:06 UM, IN TERMS OF OF OF THEIR

56:08 BEST PRACTICES FROM OUR

56:11 NEIGHBORING STATES THAT ARE

56:12 DOING THIS LIKE OTHER OTHERS.

56:13 BEST PRACTICES THAT WE SHOULD

56:15 TRY AND EMULATE.

56:16 I WOULD THINK THE PROCESS WAS.

56:18 SO SEAMLESS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

56:20 THAT WE COULD LOOK TO THEM.

56:22 THEY'RE ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORING

56:23 STATES TO SHARE WITH US.

56:25 I MEAN LIKE WE LITERALLY WALKED

56:27 INTO THE POLLING LOCATION AND

56:28 WITNESSED PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT

56:30 ON UM, THE LIST AND THEY WOULD

56:33 SIMPLY TO ANOTHER LINE SHOWED

56:35 PROOF OF RESIDENCY AND VOTED ON

56:38 A REAL BALLOT.

56:39 RIGHT BECAUSE THAT MATTERS.

56:41 PROVISIONAL BALLOTS WE ALREADY

56:43 KNOW IS A MAJOR PROBLEM

56:45 PARTICULARLY HERE IN

56:47 MASSACHUSETTS.

56:47 AND WE KNOW THAT ELECTION DAY

56:49 REGISTRATION WOULD ELIMINATE

56:50 SOME OF THAT.

56:53 AND I REPRESENT ALLSTON

56:54 BRIGHTON SO 70% OF THE

56:57 NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGED ADDRESS ON

56:58 SEPTEMBER 1ST WHICH IS IT'S A

57:01 BIG PROBLEM.

57:02 SO UM I KNOW ONE ARGUMENT THAT

57:04 I'VE HEARD FROM UH, AN ELECTED

57:08 OFFICIAL WAS THAT WELL, HAVING

57:10 SAME DAY ELECTION DAY

57:12 REGISTRATION PREVENTS UM THEM

57:16 UH, MAILING THEIR RESIDENTS AND

57:19 HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT

57:21 POLICY OR WHATEVER.

57:22 UM, IS THERE AN IS THERE AN

57:24 ANTIDOTE TO THAT OR IS IT A

57:25 COUNTER ARGUMENT FOR THAT LIKE

57:27 UM YOU SHOULD BE TALKING TO

57:28 EVERYBODY REGARDLESS BUT IN

57:31 ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO VOTE TO

57:32 REGISTER AHEAD OF TIME RIGHT.

57:34 AND JUST DO YOUR JOB.

57:35 ALL THE.

57:36 TIME RIGHT?

57:36 LIKE EVERYBODY'S GOING TO KNOW

57:37 WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND.

57:39 I MEAN IT'S NOT IT'S NOT LIKE

57:41 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE.

57:42 VOTING IN ANY ELECTION.

57:44 IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATA IN

57:46 MASSACHUSETTS THANK YOU SABINO

57:47 FOR SENDING THAT OUT TIMELY

57:49 WHILE WE'RE WATCHING UH.

57:51 LIVE RESULTS COME IN.

57:55 WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT.

57:58 VOTING IN ONE PARTICULAR AREA

58:00 AND THEN GOING TO ANOTHER AREA

58:02 RUNNING CAMPAIGNS ON ELECTION

58:04 DAY.

58:04 I WISH THEY WOULD.

58:05 RUN CAMPAIGNS ON ELECTION DAY

58:07 TO GET PEOPLE OUT TO VOTE.

58:08 I JUST THINK THAT IT'S A THING.

58:10 NOW AND IT'S IT'S NOT AN

58:11 EXISTING.

58:12 THAT WE'RE.

58:12 NOT ORGANIZED.

58:13 WE'RE GOOD ORGANIZERS I MUST

58:15 SAY, BUT WE'RE NOT ORGANIZING

58:16 AT THAT LEVEL.

58:17 SO WHAT NEW RESPONSIBILITIES

58:19 WOULD FALL ON MUNICIPAL

58:21 ELECTIONS, UH, OFFICIALS OR

58:22 POLL WORKERS YOU KNOW, TO DO

58:24 ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION?

58:26 IS IT IS IT YOU SAID IT'S NOT

58:28 IT'S NOT AN ONEROUS TASK.

58:30 UH COULD.

58:30 YOU ONE YEAH I CAN TAKE

58:31 THAT.

58:33 SO THERE WOULDN'T IT'S

58:34 IMPORTANT TO UNDERLINE THAT

58:35 IT'S NOT EXTRANEOUS WORK THAT

58:36 IS ADDED TO ANY ELECTION

58:38 ADMINISTRATOR.

58:39 IT IS A SHIFTING OF WHERE

58:41 CERTAIN RESOURCES ARE ON

58:42 ELECTION DAY.

58:43 UM, I KNOW CHERYL HAS POINTED

58:45 TO PROVISIONAL BALLOTS AS THE

58:46 HUGE PROBLEM THAT THEY ARE AND

58:48 WE'VE SEEN IN THE 24 UM STATES

58:51 AND D.C. THAT HAVE UM ELECTION

58:54 DAY REGISTRATION THAT THERE IS

58:55 A REDUCED NUMBER OF THOSE

58:57 PROVISIONAL BALLOTS BEING

58:58 FILLED OUT WHICH ALLOWS FOR

59:00 THOSE POLL WORKERS OR ELECTION

59:02 ADMINISTRATORS WHO ARE TAKING

59:03 ON THE ARDUOUS WEEKS LONG TASK

59:06 OF VERIFICATION TO FOCUS THAT

59:08 ON ELECTION DAY IN GETTING REAL

59:10 BALLOTS INTO THE HANDS

59:12 OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS.

59:13 UM.

59:14 IT'S A VERY SMALL ADDITION

59:15 TO THAT WORK TO POTENTIALLY PUT

59:18 RESOURCES UM, WE DO ACKNOWLEDGE

59:19 IT MAY TAKE MOVING MAYBE SOME

59:21 UH POLL WORKERS TO MORE UM,

59:24 HIGH PROFILE OR HIGH YIELD UM

59:26 POLLING SITES BUT WE REALLY

59:28 DON'T SEE ANY MAJOR INCREASE IN

59:30 THE WORK.

59:31 UM, IT'S JUST MOVING THAT

59:32 PROVISIONAL BALLOT WORK THAT

59:34 TAKES AGAIN WEEKS TIME,

59:36 RESOURCES, MONEY TO VERIFY

59:38 AFTER ELECTION DAY AND ALLOWING

59:40 IT TO OCCUR ON ELECTION DAY TO

59:42 BE COUNTED WITH OUR RESULTS.

59:44 .

59:44 I SEE TRACY.

59:46 YOU'RE GOOD.

59:46 YOU HAVE A MINUTE?

59:47 30 I'M SORRY.

59:48 I'M A MINUTE.

59:48 UM.

59:51 SO I I'M A BIG PROPONENT I IN

59:53 THE CONSTITUENCY I CAME FROM

59:55 BACK HOME IN NORTHERN IRELAND

59:56 THAT WAS CONSIDERED A MAJOR

59:58 DISASTER OF VOTER TURNOUT

59:59 DECREASE TO 60% AND THAT WAS

1:00:02 THAT WAS WHAT'S GONE WRONG.

1:00:04 UM, THERE'S GOOD REASONS WHY

1:00:06 THAT WAS HIGH BUT UM I CAN WE I

1:00:10 FEEL VOTING IS SUCH A SACRED

1:00:12 RESPONSIBILITY.

1:00:13 IT'S LIKE SERVING ON A JURY.

1:00:14 IT'S UM AND IT'S REALLY PART

1:00:17 OF BEING A CITIZEN AND BE

1:00:18 REALLY ENGAGED.

1:00:19 UM, HOW CAN WE TRY AND LIKE I

1:00:23 THINK 8080 MILLION PEOPLE

1:00:24 DIDN'T VOTE IN THE LAST

1:00:26 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?

1:00:27 UM, I CAN WE I CAN WE REALLY

1:00:30 WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND

1:00:33 EVERYBODY TO GET THEM TO BE

1:00:35 MORE AND TO TO ACTUALLY GET OUT

1:00:37 AND VOTE LIKE ANY ANY AND

1:00:39 THERE'S ANY SECRET SAUCE I

1:00:42 THINK IT'S AN.

1:00:43 ATTACK IT FROM ALL FRONTS UM

1:00:45 KIND OF STRATEGY.

1:00:46 YOU KNOW IT TAKES US AS

1:00:47 ADVOCATES IT TAKES UH YOU.

1:00:49 KNOW.

1:00:50 YOU AS THE TRUSTED

1:00:51 MESSENGERS UM, TO ALLOW PEOPLE

1:00:53 TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS

1:00:54 SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ALL

1:00:55 DEEPLY INVESTED IN, UM, NOT

1:00:57 ONLY AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND

1:00:58 AS VOTERS BUT AS PEOPLE WHO

1:01:00 WANT THIS NEXT GENERATION TO BE

1:01:02 INVOLVED.

1:01:03 AND I THINK TO YOUR POINT ON

1:01:04 THESE YOUNG VOTERS, UM,

1:01:05 COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I THINK.

1:01:06 THAT.

1:01:07 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO INVITE

1:01:08 THEM INTO THE ROOM IN ELECTION

1:01:09 DAY REGISTRATION ALLOWS US TO

1:01:11 DO THAT ALLOWS US TO INVITE

1:01:13 THESE YOUNG PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT

1:01:15 MASSACHUSETTS WANTS THEM TO

1:01:16 HAVE THIS ACCESS TO VOTE, WHICH

1:01:18 WE KNOW FOR STUDENT

1:01:19 POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN

1:01:20 BOSTON MANY OF THEM DON'T HAVE

1:01:21 BECAUSE OF THEIR MOVING AND

1:01:23 BECAUSE OF THAT SEPTEMBER 1ST,

1:01:24 I KNOW THE PRIMARY DAY THIS

1:01:26 YEAR WE SAW A LOT OF THAT.

1:01:28 UM, SO I THINK THAT ALLOWING US

1:01:30 TO ATTACK FROM ALL ANGLES AND

1:01:32 USING WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW

1:01:33 WORKS OF VOTER EDUCATION BUT

1:01:35 TAKING THESE POLICY ANGLES

1:01:37 OF ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

1:01:39 OF DECOUPLING THE MUNICIPAL

1:01:40 CENSUS ALLOWS US TO SEND THE

1:01:42 MESSAGE THAT VOTERS NEED TO

1:01:43 HEAR, WHICH IS THAT WE WANT TO

1:01:45 HEAR THEIR VOICE AND THEIR

1:01:46 VOICE IS THEIR POWER AND

1:01:47 MASSACHUSETTS RESPECTS THAT.

1:01:49 THANK YOU.

1:01:50 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:01:51 THANK YOU.

1:01:51 WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY

1:01:53 COUNCILOR EARL.

1:01:53 UH.

1:01:54 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:01:54 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR IN SEVEN

1:01:56 MINUTES.

1:01:56 OKAY.

1:01:56 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:01:58 UH, WITH.

1:01:58 SORRY.

1:01:58 UM.

1:01:59 NO, UH, YOU'RE GOING TO

1:02:03 START THE CLOCK FOR ME.

1:02:03 YES YES YES.

1:02:04 SORRY I FOR.

1:02:05 SEVEN MINUTES.

1:02:06 IF YOU NEED.

1:02:06 MORE I WILL COME BACK.

1:02:07 SEVEN MINUTES IS VERY GENEROUS,

1:02:08 SO.

1:02:09 OKAY.

1:02:09 NO, UH THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:02:11 UH, JUST FOLLOWING UP ON THAT

1:02:12 UH, LAST QUESTION I DID I SAW

1:02:16 UH, I THERE'S A I DON'T KNOW

1:02:18 WHERE WHO'S READY FOR NOW E.J.

1:02:19 DIONNE, UH, HAD A BOOK OUT A

1:02:22 YEAR OR SO AGO ABOUT VOTER

1:02:24 PARTICIPATION PARTICIPATION.

1:02:25 AND HE LOOKED AT AUSTRALIA

1:02:27 WHICH HAS VERY HIGH

1:02:28 PARTICIPATION.

1:02:29 THEY ALSO THEY FINE PEOPLE $20

1:02:31 IF THEY DON'T VOTE AND THAT

1:02:33 APPARENTLY GETS YOUR VOTER

1:02:35 TURNOUT VERY HIGH I, I.

1:02:38 DON'T I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT

1:02:39 HERE BUT I MEAN UH IS THERE

1:02:42 SOME SOMETHING WE CAN DO TO

1:02:45 INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE TO GO OUT TO

1:02:46 VOTE?

1:02:47 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU THINK

1:02:48 ABOUT AUSTRALIA UH, IN THAT

1:02:50 MODEL.

1:02:50 I LOVE THAT.

1:02:51 YEAH I DO I LIKE.

1:02:53 IS IT CALLED UNIVERSAL.

1:02:55 VOTING PRINCIPLE DURING

1:02:57 SOMETHING LIKE.

1:02:58 VOTING COMPULSORY?

1:03:00 YEAH I LIKE IT.

1:03:01 AND THE REASON WE.

1:03:02 I THINK WE'RE NOT.

1:03:03 REALLY PUSHING IT HARD HERE

1:03:05 FROM MY PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE

1:03:07 THINGS TEND TO BE

1:03:09 DISPROPORTIONATELY DISTRIBUTED

1:03:11 .

1:03:12 SO $20 IN A COMMUNITY WHERE

1:03:14 PEOPLE CAN'T.

1:03:15 AFFORD THAT.

1:03:17 VERSUS SOMEBODY THAT MAKES

1:03:19 $200,000 A YEAR AND THEY DECIDE

1:03:21 NOT TO VOTE $20 IS A DROP IN

1:03:23 THE BUCKET.

1:03:24 IF WE COULD FIGURE OUT.

1:03:25 HOW I THINK I CAN'T REMEMBER.

1:03:27 WHAT COUNTRY IT IS.

1:03:28 I'M SORRY BUT THEY TAKE THEIR

1:03:30 LICENSE.

1:03:30 HOW ABOUT THAT?

1:03:31 THAT MAKES IT EVEN YOU DON'T.

1:03:34 VOTE.

1:03:34 YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR DRIVER'S

1:03:35 LICENSE SO THEREFORE YOU CANNOT

1:03:37 PARTICIPATE IN MOST THINGS

1:03:38 RIGHT.

1:03:39 BUT FIGURING OUT SOME WAY I

1:03:41 THINK IT'S EVERYBODY'S.

1:03:44 UH THAT SHOULD BE THE THING

1:03:46 THAT YOU DO IS TO VOTE AND TO

1:03:47 SPEAK AND TO PARTICIPATE IN

1:03:50 DEMOCRACY IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

1:03:52 HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD.

1:03:54 NOT TOO.

1:03:55 MANY TOO FEW PEOPLE ARE MAKING

1:03:58 DECISIONS FOR ALL OF US BECAUSE

1:03:59 WE DON'T GO OUT TO VOTE.

1:04:00 AND THE QUESTION OF WHAT ELSE

1:04:02 CAN WE DO?

1:04:03 I MEAN OUTSIDE OF SETTING.

1:04:05 OURSELVES ON FIRE, WE'RE

1:04:06 LOOKING FOR.

1:04:07 PEOPLE TO REALLY GIVE US UM,

1:04:10 SUGGESTIONS.

1:04:11 WE'RE TAKING IT TO THE STREETS.

1:04:13 WE THINK ONE ON ONE

1:04:14 CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE

1:04:15 REALLY WORK.

1:04:16 BEST HELPING PEOPLE.

1:04:18 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AT STAKE

1:04:20 FOR THEM.

1:04:21 I THINK THEY MISS IT BECAUSE

1:04:22 THEY CAN'T SEE THE RESULTS

1:04:24 OF IT OF AN ELECTION.

1:04:25 WHEN WE'RE FIGHTING FOR

1:04:26 SOMETHING AND IT DOESN'T.

1:04:28 PASS, THEY DON'T.

1:04:29 SEE IT AS BEING MEANINGFUL

1:04:32 BECAUSE IT DIDN'T AFFECT THEM.

1:04:33 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

1:04:34 SO WE GOT TO FIGURE OUT WAYS

1:04:35 TO.

1:04:36 HAVE THEM CONNECT THE.

1:04:37 DOTS TO UNDERSTAND HOW VOTING

1:04:41 IS IMPACTS THEIR DAILY LIVING.

1:04:44 YEAH I'M TRYING YEAH WELL

1:04:46 CERTAINLY BEFORE WE DID

1:04:47 ANYTHING LIKE THAT WE NEED TO

1:04:48 MAKE SURE WE CAN GET PEOPLE

1:04:50 REGISTERED, REMOVE THE

1:04:51 OBSTACLES TO VOTING SO THE BUT

1:04:53 UH DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING.

1:04:54 I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD UM, TWO

1:04:56 THINGS.

1:04:57 ONE KIND OF ADDING ON TO THAT I

1:04:59 THINK ESPECIALLY WITH WITH

1:05:03 YOUTH UM, REALLY BRINGING THE

1:05:05 IMPACT OF THEIR VOICE AND THEIR

1:05:07 VOTE CLOSER TO HOME.

1:05:09 I THINK THAT UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S

1:05:11 EXCITING TO CAST YOUR BALLOT

1:05:12 FOR PRESIDENT AND THESE THESE

1:05:14 BIG UM, YOU KNOW, I GUESS WHAT

1:05:17 WE THINK OF AS THESE BIGGER,

1:05:19 MORE MORE STAKES ELECTIONS BUT

1:05:20 I THINK AS LAWYERS FOR CIVIL

1:05:22 RIGHTS, WE AND THESE

1:05:23 ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL WE FOCUS

1:05:24 A LOT ON WHAT'S LOCAL, WHAT'S

1:05:26 CLOSER TO HOME.

1:05:28 UM, THINGS LIKE YOUR SCHOOL

1:05:29 BOARD ELECTION YOU KNOW, THESE

1:05:31 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE THAT YOU

1:05:33 HAVE THE CHANCE TO ELECT ARE

1:05:34 REALLY GOING TO REPRESENT YOUR

1:05:36 NEEDS ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS.

1:05:38 AND SO I THINK TRYING TO

1:05:41 TRANSLATE THAT TO YOUTH TO TO

1:05:43 GET EXCITED ABOUT THESE MORE

1:05:46 CLOSE TO HOME ISSUES I THINK IS

1:05:48 IMPORTANT.

1:05:49 UM, AND THEN IF WE WANT TO

1:05:50 THROW ANOTHER SORT OF PIE IN

1:05:52 THE SKY IDEA I DON'T THINK IT

1:05:54 SHOULD BE PIE IN THE SKY BUT.

1:05:55 ELECTION DAY SHOULD BE A

1:05:57 HOLIDAY BREAK THAT WOULD

1:05:58 ELIMINATE SO MANY BARRIERS FOR

1:06:00 SO MANY PEOPLE.

1:06:02 UM AND WOULD WOULD CERTAINLY

1:06:04 SOLVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS.

1:06:06 OKAY.

1:06:07 UH AND THEN SO FOR UM, UH,

1:06:09 SAME DAY REGISTRATION OR VOTING

1:06:11 DAY REGISTRATION LIKE I THINK

1:06:13 YOU I UH WHAT DO WE HAVE TO

1:06:17 HAVE IN PLACE FOR THAT TO BE

1:06:18 EFFECTIVE?

1:06:18 YOU KNOW, UH IS IT CAN WE DO IT

1:06:21 WITH THE SAME STAFF TO WE NEED

1:06:24 MACHINES AND, YOU KNOW, UH,

1:06:26 LIKE WHAT WOULD WE NEED TO MOVE

1:06:28 TO GET THAT.

1:06:30 EFFECTIVE EQUIPMENT?

1:06:32 MHM.

1:06:32 RIGHT.

1:06:34 UH ELECTRONIC IPADS.

1:06:35 I THINK WE TRIED IT ON EARLY

1:06:37 VOTING HAVING THOSE KIND

1:06:39 OF SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO MAKE

1:06:40 PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THE ELECTION

1:06:42 IS SECURE.

1:06:42 RIGHT FOR SURE.

1:06:44 YEAH.

1:06:44 AS LONG AS.

1:06:45 A POLLING LOCATION CAN GET

1:06:47 UM ACCESS INTO VIRUS THIS IS A

1:06:49 REALLY SIMPLE THING TO GET

1:06:51 FORWARD.

1:06:51 SO FOR SOME UM, YOU KNOW,

1:06:53 POLLING LOCATIONS GETTING THAT

1:06:55 ACCESS WHETHER IT BE UM

1:06:57 TECHNOLOGY WOULD BE UH A BIG

1:06:59 ONE BUT REALLY IT IS A VERY

1:07:01 SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATION HERE IN

1:07:03 MASSACHUSETTS BECAUSE OF THE

1:07:04 WAY THAT WE ALREADY HAVE

1:07:06 STRUCTURED UM, OUR YOU KNOW,

1:07:08 VOLUNTEERS, OUR POLL WORKERS,

1:07:10 OUR ADMINISTRATORS IT'S JUST

1:07:11 MOVING THOSE RESOURCES AROUND,

1:07:13 UM, AWAY FROM THE.

1:07:14 PROVISIONAL BALLOTS.

1:07:15 ALTHOUGH I SEE TRACY HAS HER

1:07:17 COFFEE.

1:07:18 TRACY, COME ON.

1:07:19 IN MY BAG.

1:07:20 COME ON.

1:07:21 TRACY.

1:07:21 OH, WORRIES.

1:07:21 NO WORRIES.

1:07:22 YEAH, JUST JUST A FOLLOW UP A

1:07:24 LITTLE BIT.

1:07:24 UM, I I TOTALLY AGREE WITH

1:07:26 BROOKE THAT WE ARE WE'RE IN A

1:07:28 SITUATION WHERE WE NEED TO

1:07:30 BRING IN AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE

1:07:32 POSSIBLY CAN AND MAKE IT AS

1:07:33 EASY FOR THEM TO BE

1:07:35 PARTICIPATORY IN OUR DEMOCRACY.

1:07:36 UH, AS A FORMER EDUCATOR, I

1:07:38 BELIEVE THAT IT'S IT NEEDS TO

1:07:39 START EARLY.

1:07:41 UM, AND YOU KNOW, AND I'M

1:07:43 TALKING LIKE SCHOOL AGE, RIGHT?

1:07:45 LIKE IT NEEDS TO START EARLY AS

1:07:47 TO WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO TO

1:07:49 PARTICIPATE IN OUR DEMOCRACY.

1:07:51 AND THEN THE OTHER PIECE OF IT

1:07:52 IS IN TERMS OF THE EDUCATION

1:07:54 PIECE.

1:07:54 UM, SO AT THE ACLU WE RUN A

1:07:57 PROGRAM CALLED BIPOC TO THE

1:07:58 BALLOT BOX WHERE IT REALLY IS

1:08:00 ABOUT MUNICIPAL AND ELECTIONS.

1:08:03 RIGHT?

1:08:04 LIKE THE DAY TO DAY THINGS THAT

1:08:05 AFFECT YOUR YOUR DAILY LIVES.

1:08:07 UM, AND YOU KNOW, BROOKE

1:08:09 BROUGHT UP THE GREAT POINT OF,

1:08:10 YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL BOARD LIKE

1:08:11 IT'S THE SCHOOL BOARD WHO

1:08:12 DECIDES IF THEY YOU KNOW, IF

1:08:14 THEY'RE GOING TO BAN BOOKS OR

1:08:16 YOU KNOW, AND SO, YOU KNOW,

1:08:18 THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM FOCUSES

1:08:20 A LOT ON MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

1:08:22 AND THE WAYS IN WHICH THOSE DAY

1:08:25 TO DAY UM, THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE,

1:08:27 YOU KNOW, MAKING THOSE DAY TO

1:08:28 DAY DECISIONS FOR YOU IMPACT

1:08:30 YOUR DAILY LIVES.

1:08:31 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO

1:08:32 FIND THOUGH, IN TERMS OF WHY

1:08:34 PEOPLE AREN'T PARTICIPATING

1:08:35 WHEN PEOPLE ARE ARE TRYING TO

1:08:38 SURVIVE, YOU KNOW, ELECTION IS

1:08:40 PRETTY LOW.

1:08:42 YOU KNOW, VOTING IS PRETTY LOW

1:08:43 ON THE LIST OF OF THINGS.

1:08:45 RIGHT.

1:08:46 UM, WE'VE GOT TO MAKE IT

1:08:47 APPARENT TO THEM WHY VOTING IS

1:08:50 IMPORTANT AND HOW IT IMPACTS

1:08:52 THEIR DAILY LIVES, HOW IT

1:08:54 IMPACTS THEIR GROCERY STORE

1:08:55 PRICES, HOW IT IMPACTS THEIR

1:08:56 YOU KNOW, THE THE EDUCATION

1:08:58 THAT THEIR CHILDREN RECEIVE,

1:08:59 HOW IT IMPACTS THEIR ROADS THAT

1:09:01 THEY DRIVE ON EVERY SINGLE DAY.

1:09:02 AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS IS

1:09:04 THE EDUCATIONAL PIECE OF IT.

1:09:06 BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT STARTING

1:09:07 ON THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL IS WHERE

1:09:10 WE REALLY, REALLY NEED TO

1:09:12 EDUCATE FOLKS ON HOW YOU KNOW,

1:09:14 HOW PARTICIPATING IN ELECTIONS

1:09:15 REALLY AFFECTS THEM.

1:09:17 UH, ONE QUICK, QUICK JUST IN

1:09:21 TERMS OF VOTER PARTICIPATION

1:09:23 SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT,

1:09:25 ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON WE

1:09:27 HAVE A QUESTION I THINK IT'S

1:09:28 SEVEN ABOUT UH ELIMINATING UH

1:09:30 PARTY PRIMARIES HERE IN THE

1:09:32 STATE QUESTION.

1:09:33 THAT'S THREE.

1:09:33 THOSE ARE THREE.

1:09:34 SORRY I APOLOGIZE UH ANY

1:09:36 THOUGHTS ON HOW THAT WOULD

1:09:38 WOULD IT WOULD IMPACT

1:09:40 PARTICIPATION INCREASE DECREASE

1:09:43 YOUR THOUGHTS.

1:09:45 NO I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE NO

1:09:46 IS I DON'T WANT TO ANSWER OR NO

1:09:48 NOT.

1:09:48 THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS.

1:09:50 MASSACHUSETTS HASN'T TAKEN A

1:09:52 POSITION.

1:09:52 ON.

1:09:52 QUESTION THREE BUT I'D BE HAPPY

1:09:54 TO PROVIDE WE DID A FORUM WITH

1:09:56 BOTH THE YES AND THE NO SIDES

1:09:58 UM VIRTUALLY AND HAVE THAT

1:09:59 RECORDING AVAILABLE FOR FOLKS

1:10:00 THAT WANT TO HEAR MORE ON THE

1:10:02 ARGUMENTS.

1:10:02 UM.

1:10:03 FOR THE MERITS OF THE

1:10:04 QUESTION.

1:10:04 OKAY.

1:10:05 THANK YOU THANK YOU CHAIR.

1:10:06 THANK YOU.

1:10:07 I WILL SAY THAT A.

1:10:08 LOT OF.

1:10:08 LABOR IS.

1:10:09 UM AGAINST.

1:10:10 QUESTION THREE AND I KNOW THAT

1:10:11 QUESTION AND I THINK.

1:10:12 QUESTION THREE WHEN YOU LOOK AT

1:10:14 THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS

1:10:15 THERE'S.

1:10:16 A LOT OF ISSUES.

1:10:17 BUT IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

1:10:18 EXPANDING DEMOCRACY.

1:10:19 AND REALLY GIVING VOTERS A

1:10:20 CHOICE, I THINK QUESTION THREE

1:10:22 IS THE WRONG QUESTION.

1:10:23 THE RIGHT QUESTION.

1:10:23 IS RANKED.

1:10:24 CHOICE VOTING WHICH WE.

1:10:25 DID TAKE HERE UP HERE ON THE

1:10:26 COUNCIL.

1:10:26 SO JUST.

1:10:27 PUTTING MY $0.02 OUT THERE.

1:10:28 AND I LOVE THAT YOU RAISE

1:10:29 ELECTION DAY UH ELECTION DAY

1:10:32 SHOULD.

1:10:32 BE A FEDERAL HOLIDAY.

1:10:33 SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU.

1:10:34 IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS

1:10:35 COUNCILOR WE WILL DO A SECOND

1:10:36 ROUND BECAUSE I HAVE MORE

1:10:37 QUESTIONS.

1:10:37 AS WELL.

1:10:38 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:10:38 COUNCILMEMBER HERE BECAUSE HERE

1:10:39 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND SEVEN

1:10:40 MINUTES.

1:10:41 THANK YOU CHAIR AND.

1:10:41 THANK YOU.

1:10:42 FOR HOSTING THIS HEARING.

1:10:44 AND UH FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT

1:10:46 KNOW I ONE BY ONE VOTE SO YOU.

1:10:48 KNOW.

1:10:48 I'M GOING TO.

1:10:49 SHOW.

1:10:49 UP.

1:10:50 FOR THIS HEARING BECAUSE.

1:10:51 EVERY VOTE.

1:10:52 LITERALLY MATTERS AND UM, THE

1:10:54 MORE THAT WE CAN UH, REDUCE

1:10:56 BARRIERS FOR ENGAGEMENT I AM

1:10:59 ALWAYS GOING TO SHOW UP FOR

1:11:00 THEM.

1:11:00 I ALSO JUST I KNOW WE'RE GOING

1:11:01 TO TALK.

1:11:01 TO SABINO AND KERRY LATER.

1:11:03 SO THESE ARE MY PEOPLE AND I'M

1:11:04 REALLY EXCITED THAT WE'RE GOING

1:11:06 TO BE ABLE TO BRAINSTORM

1:11:07 TOGETHER ABOUT WHAT WE.

1:11:08 NEED TO DO.

1:11:09 UM, TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE

1:11:11 APATHY, UH.

1:11:12 THAT THAT.

1:11:13 EXISTS HERE IN THE CITY

1:11:14 OF BOSTON.

1:11:15 BUT UM, JUST REALLY QUICK I

1:11:17 HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.

1:11:19 UM.

1:11:19 SO ALL OF YOUR ORGANIZATIONS

1:11:21 ARE PART.

1:11:21 OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION

1:11:24 UM PROTECTION COALITION, RIGHT

1:11:25 .

1:11:26 UM AND ARE LEADING POLL

1:11:28 MONITORING EFFORTS FOR OUR

1:11:30 ELECTIONS.

1:11:31 UM, THAT JUST HAPPENED IN

1:11:32 SEPTEMBER AND THE UPCOMING ONE

1:11:33 IN NOVEMBER TO ASSIST VOTERS

1:11:35 WITH ISSUES WITH BARRIERS TO

1:11:36 ACCESS RECORD ISSUES,

1:11:39 IRREGULARITIES SUCH AS RUNNING

1:11:40 OUT OF BALLOTS OR MACHINES

1:11:42 MALFUNCTIONING UM AND PROVIDING

1:11:43 RAPID RESPONSE BY BEING IN

1:11:45 TOUCH WITH LOCAL ELECTIONS.

1:11:47 UM AND THE MASSACHUSETTS

1:11:48 SECRETARY OF STATE I JUST WANT

1:11:50 EVERYBODY I SAID ALL THAT YOU

1:11:52 ALREADY KNOW ALL OF THAT.

1:11:53 BUT UM, FOR.

1:11:53 THOSE.

1:11:54 FOLKS WHO DON'T KNOW NOW THEY

1:11:55 KNOW UM AND THIS YEAR.

1:11:57 UH, THERE IS AN ADDED.

1:11:59 CONCERN ON THE FEDERAL UH,

1:12:01 ELECTION MONITORS.

1:12:03 UH, AND.

1:12:04 SO FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF.

1:12:05 JUSTICE, UM, WERE THERE ANY.

1:12:08 ISSUES WITH FEDERAL ELECTION

1:12:10 MONITORS DURING THE PRIMARY

1:12:10 ELECTION?

1:12:12 UM AND ARE THERE ANY CONCERNS

1:12:13 ABOUT.

1:12:14 THE GENERAL ELECTION?

1:12:14 AND AND IF YOU COULD PLEASE.

1:12:16 DISCUSS HOW THE FEDERAL

1:12:18 ADMINISTRATION.

1:12:18 IS IMPACTING, UH, VOTING.

1:12:20 ACCESS UH OR DISENFRANCHIZING

1:12:23 UM, PEOPLE.

1:12:25 SO WE DID SEE DOJ MONITORS IN

1:12:29 POLLING PLACES THROUGHOUT

1:12:30 BOSTON, UM, AND THROUGHOUT THE

1:12:33 COMMONWEALTH.

1:12:33 OUR UH OUR VOLUNTEER POLL

1:12:36 OBSERVERS WERE IN FOUR

1:12:37 DIFFERENT CITIES I BELIEVE UM

1:12:39 DURING ON THE PRIMARY DAY AND

1:12:41 WE WE.

1:12:41 SAW THESE DOJ MONITORS AND ALL

1:12:44 OF THOSE CITIES.

1:12:46 UM LUCKILY THERE WERE NOT ANY

1:12:47 ANY ISSUES OF CONCERN THAT

1:12:50 AROSE, UM, WHICH WAS A GOOD

1:12:51 THING LOOKING TO THE GENERAL

1:12:54 ELECTION, WE WE DON'T YET KNOW

1:12:56 IF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

1:12:57 WILL BE SENDING THEIR SO-CALLED

1:13:00 POLL MONITORS TO POLLING

1:13:02 PLACES.

1:13:03 UM, THEY LET US KNOW.

1:13:08 UM, BY US I MEAN THE PUBLIC

1:13:10 THEY THEY ISSUED A PUBLIC

1:13:11 STATEMENT UM, A FEW DAYS PRIOR

1:13:13 TO THE PRIMARY AND IT WAS NOT

1:13:15 UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE THAT THEY

1:13:17 ADDED THAT THESE MONITORS WILL

1:13:18 BE WOULD BE GOING TO THE UM THE

1:13:20 CITY OF LOWELL AS WELL.

1:13:21 SO WE WON'T NECESSARILY GET AN

1:13:24 ADVANCE NOTICE ABOUT UM, THE

1:13:26 DOJ'S PLANS I THINK MORE

1:13:29 BROADLY SOMETHING THAT WE AT

1:13:30 CIVIL AT LAWYERS FOR CIVIL

1:13:32 RIGHTS UM, ARE VERY CONCERNED

1:13:33 ABOUT IS THE POTENTIAL PRESENCE

1:13:37 OF ARMED FEDERAL AGENTS WHETHER

1:13:38 THAT'S DOJ OR FBI OR ICE NEAR

1:13:41 POLLING PLACES AND UM, THE

1:13:45 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS

1:13:48 INDICATED THROUGH PUBLIC

1:13:49 STATEMENTS THAT THIS IS NOT

1:13:50 SOMETHING THAT'S OFF THE TABLE.

1:13:52 THERE'S ALSO BEEN UM RECORDS

1:13:55 OF OF MEETINGS THAT THEY'VE HAD

1:13:56 ABOUT HAVING AGENTS SORT

1:14:00 OF TAKING CONTROL OF CERTAIN

1:14:02 POLLING PLACES UM, THROUGH FOIA

1:14:05 REQUESTS THROUGH IT'S BEEN UH,

1:14:09 LEARNED THAT THERE HAVE BEEN

1:14:11 SOME SOME POTENTIAL PLANS THAT

1:14:13 THAT THAT ARE BEING FLOATED AND

1:14:15 SO ALL OF THAT IS IS NOT TO

1:14:17 STRIKE FEAR INTO ELIGIBLE

1:14:18 VOTERS HERE.

1:14:19 I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT

1:14:20 THAT WE CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE

1:14:23 FOLKS TO GO OUT AND VOTE

1:14:24 BECAUSE THEY HAVE THAT RIGHT NO

1:14:26 MATTER WHAT.

1:14:27 AND THE ACTIONS OF THE FEDERAL

1:14:29 GOVERNMENT IS WHAT IS UNLAWFUL

1:14:31 AND IS WHAT WILL BE STOPPED

1:14:34 IMMEDIATELY WHEN ORGANIZATIONS

1:14:36 LIKE LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

1:14:37 GET GET WIND OF WHAT'S GOING ON

1:14:39 ,WE ARE READY TO JUMP INTO

1:14:40 ACTION BECAUSE THE PRESENCE

1:14:43 OF ARMED OFFICERS IS ILLEGAL

1:14:47 UNDER SO MANY DIFFERENT.

1:14:49 UM PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL LAW

1:14:51 STATE LAW UM SO DEFINITELY A

1:14:55 CONCERN BUT WE REALLY WANT TO

1:14:56 MAKE SURE THAT WE ENCOURAGE

1:14:57 FOLKS TO STILL GET OUT AND

1:14:59 EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT.

1:15:00 OKAY GREAT.

1:15:00 THANK YOU.

1:15:02 UM, SO THEN UM, ONE OF THE

1:15:05 CONCERNS THAT UH, PEOPLE

1:15:07 SOMETIMES RAISE ABOUT THE SAME

1:15:08 DAY VOTER REGISTRATION.

1:15:10 IS ELECTION SECURITY.

1:15:11 UM, CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW

1:15:13 A QUESTION FOR USE AS PROOF

1:15:14 OF RESIDENCY, AN OATH TO SIGN

1:15:16 AND.

1:15:16 PROVISIONAL BALLOTS ADDRESSES

1:15:18 THIS CONCERN OF ELECTION

1:15:20 SECURITY?

1:15:22 HAVE THANK YOU FOR THAT

1:15:24 QUESTION.

1:15:25 UM, ONE THING I ALWAYS

1:15:26 UNDERLINE IS THAT IT FOLLOWS

1:15:28 THE SAME STANDARDS WE REQUIRE

1:15:30 UH, THE VOTER REGISTRATION AT

1:15:32 ANY OTHER TIME IN ANY OTHER

1:15:34 VEHICLE IN MASSACHUSETTS.

1:15:35 SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE

1:15:36 ALREADY KNOW AND TRUST AND.

1:15:39 TO I KNOW WE KNOW THIS HERE BUT

1:15:40 TO PUT IT OUT THERE AGAIN VOTER

1:15:42 FRAUD IS EXCEPTIONALLY RARE IN

1:15:44 THIS COUNTRY AND IN THOSE 24

1:15:46 STATES THAT HAVE ELECTION DAY

1:15:48 REGISTRATION, THEY HAVE NOT

1:15:50 REPORTED ANY ADDITIONAL VOTER

1:15:51 FRAUD CONCERNS OR ANYTHING LIKE

1:15:53 THAT RELATED TO ELECTION DAY

1:15:55 REGISTRATION.

1:15:56 UM WE KNOW AUDIT AFTER AUDIT

1:15:58 AUDIT AND STUDY AFTER STUDY

1:15:59 HAVE SHOWN THAT THIS ISN'T AN

1:16:01 ISSUE.

1:16:01 UM, TO LOOK MORE SPECIFICALLY

1:16:03 AT PROOF OF RESIDENCY UM, IT

1:16:05 DOES REQUIRE YOU TO SHOW PROOF

1:16:07 OF RESIDENCY.

1:16:07 THAT CAN BE.

1:16:08 MANY THINGS YOU COULD CHOOSE TO

1:16:10 SHOW UM, YOU KNOW IN ID WE ALSO

1:16:13 IN MASSACHUSETTS DO REQUIRE YOU

1:16:15 TO SHOW AN I.D. THE FIRST TIME

1:16:16 YOU REGISTER.

1:16:17 UM, WHETHER THAT'S WHEN YOU

1:16:18 REGISTER OR AT THE POLLS.

1:16:20 UM, SO THAT DOES FOLLOW THAT

1:16:21 SAME GUIDANCE.

1:16:23 IT ALSO REQUIRES, YOU KNOW, THE

1:16:24 PROOF OF RESIDENCY COULD BE

1:16:25 YOUR UTILITY BILL.

1:16:26 IT COULD BE FOR OUR STUDENTS

1:16:28 HERE IN BOSTON.

1:16:29 IT COULD BE YOUR TRANSCRIPT OR

1:16:31 ,UM, YOUR HOUSING ASSIGNMENT

1:16:32 FOR YOUR CAMPUS.

1:16:33 SO IT REQUIRES THAT SAME

1:16:35 THRESHOLD THAT WE ALREADY KNOW

1:16:36 AND TRUST HERE IN

1:16:37 MASSACHUSETTS.

1:16:38 IT'S JUST HAPPENING, UM, ON

1:16:40 ELECTION DAY AT YOUR POLLING

1:16:41 LOCATION.

1:16:42 OKAY.

1:16:43 KIMBERLY, MY TIME IS ALMOST

1:16:44 UP.

1:16:44 UM, SO THIS COUNCIL SO.

1:16:46 THANK.

1:16:47 YOU FOR THAT.

1:16:47 THIS COUNCIL ALSO RECENTLY

1:16:48 PASSED A RESOLUTION IN, UM IN.

1:16:50 SUPPORT OF PROTECTING MAIL-IN

1:16:51 VOTING.

1:16:52 UM, BESIDES MAIL-IN VOTING AND

1:16:54 SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION,

1:16:56 HOW CAN WE MAKE VOTING.

1:16:58 MORE ACCESSIBLE.

1:16:59 AND WHAT CAN THE COUNCIL DO TO

1:17:01 SUPPORT VOTING ACCESS AND

1:17:02 EDUCATION?

1:17:03 I MEAN THERE'S THINGS THAT WE

1:17:05 COULD DO RIGHT NOW AND I'D LOVE

1:17:07 TO.

1:17:07 HEAR WHAT YOU THINK THOSE

1:17:08 THINGS ARE.

1:17:09 THAT YOU'VE SEEN.

1:17:09 IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES.

1:17:11 I'M ALL IN FOR UM, MAKING

1:17:15 VOTING UH, A HOLIDAY I.

1:17:17 THINK ABOUT.

1:17:18 NO BRAINER THERE, BUT WHAT.

1:17:20 ELSE CAN WE BE DOING THAT YOU'D

1:17:22 LIKE TO SEE US DO?

1:17:24 I'D LIKE TO SEE BETTER SIGNAGE

1:17:26 .

1:17:26 THOSE WHITE.

1:17:27 SANDWICH BOARDS HAVE BEEN

1:17:28 AROUND FOREVER AND THEY BLEND

1:17:29 IN WITH THE LANDSCAPE, RIGHT?

1:17:31 LIKE FLUORESCENT.

1:17:32 ORANGE FLUORESCE.

1:17:33 I MEAN, JUST.

1:17:34 THINGS TO VISIBILITY IS

1:17:36 IMPORTANT.

1:17:36 SO I JUST THINK THAT THAT COULD

1:17:38 HELP JUST CHANGE IT UP.

1:17:40 A LITTLE BIT.

1:17:40 YEAH.

1:17:40 AND OUR BOSTON PUBLIC

1:17:41 SCHOOLS PLAY A ROLE IN ALSO IN

1:17:43 EDUCATION AND CIVICS RIGHT.

1:17:44 SO WE COULD BE DOING A BETTER

1:17:46 JOB AT TRAINING THE NEXT

1:17:47 GENERATION OF VOTERS AS WELL.

1:17:48 SO SOME.

1:17:49 SIGNAGE, SOME PUBLIC

1:17:50 EDUCATION ENGAGEMENT AND

1:17:52 OUTREACH.

1:17:53 WHAT ELSE?

1:17:53 YEAH.

1:17:54 UM TO YOUR POINT.

1:17:56 I KNOW THAT COUNCILMEMBER HERE

1:17:57 AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP

1:17:58 THE SCHOOLS WHO ARE INCREDIBLE

1:17:59 PARTNERS IN THIS WORK.

1:18:00 UM, WE KNOW THROUGH THE WORK

1:18:02 THAT THE LEAGUE DOES THAT MANY

1:18:04 OF OUR LOCAL LEAGUES TRY TO DO

1:18:05 NOT ONLY REGISTRATION AT

1:18:07 SCHOOLS BUT ALSO THE

1:18:08 PRE-REGISTRATION FOR 16 AND 17

1:18:10 YEAR OLDS.

1:18:11 UM AND I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER

1:18:13 WITH THIS, BUT A HUGE BARRIER

1:18:14 THAT WE SEE WHEN WE'RE DOING

1:18:15 THIS WORK IS STUDENTS DON'T

1:18:16 KNOW THEIR INFORMATION

1:18:18 TYPICALLY.

1:18:18 YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN URBAN

1:18:20 AREAS, STUDENTS DON'T HAVE A

1:18:22 DRIVER'S LICENSE WITH THEM TO

1:18:23 REGISTER TO VOTE.

1:18:24 THEY'RE REQUIRED TO, YOU.

1:18:25 KNOW.

1:18:25 HAVE THE LAST FOR THEIR

1:18:26 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.

1:18:27 TRYING TO GET THAT OUT OF A 16

1:18:29 YEAR OLD IS QUITE DIFFICULT AND

1:18:31 RIGHTFULLY SO.

1:18:31 SCHOOLS DON'T SHARE THAT

1:18:32 INFORMATION WITH VOLUNTEERS SO

1:18:34 I WOULD WELCOME ANY PARTNERSHIP

1:18:36 OR IDEAS EITHER WITH BOSTON

1:18:37 PUBLIC SCHOOLS OR UM, HERE IN

1:18:40 THESE HALLOWED HALLS TO SEE HOW

1:18:41 WE COULD WORK TOGETHER TO HELP

1:18:42 GET STUDENTS THAT INFORMATION

1:18:44 BECAUSE WE DO RUN INTO A LOT

1:18:46 OF REALLY INCREDIBLE STUDENTS

1:18:47 WHO WANT TO DO THIS WORK THAT

1:18:49 JUST HAVE THAT INFORMATION BUMP

1:18:51 AND THEY DON'T COME BACK TO IT

1:18:53 AFTER THAT.

1:18:54 OH MY.

1:18:55 FOR MY SECOND ROUND I WANT

1:18:58 TO BE RESPECTFUL.

1:18:58 UM I.

1:18:59 JUST WANT TO SAY COUNSELOR, I

1:19:01 LITERALLY USE THAT EXAMPLE

1:19:03 WEEKLY THAT YOU ONE.

1:19:05 BY ONE YOU.

1:19:06 KNOW THE POSTER CHILD.

1:19:08 THANK YOU.

1:19:09 I'LL BE BACK FOR A SECOND

1:19:10 ROUND.

1:19:11 THANK YOU.

1:19:11 AND JUST.

1:19:12 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE TRACY,

1:19:13 IF.

1:19:14 YOU HAD.

1:19:14 ANYTHING THAT YOU.

1:19:15 WANTED TO CHIME IN.

1:19:15 YOU GOT TO YOU KNOW JUST.

1:19:16 JUST TALK JUST TALK OVER ME.

1:19:18 TALK OVER EVERYBODY.

1:19:19 JUST WANT.

1:19:19 TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU.

1:19:20 FEEL LIKE YOU'RE.

1:19:20 PART OF THE CONVERSATION.

1:19:22 OH THANK YOU.

1:19:23 YEAH I I WOULD AGREE WITH CELIA

1:19:26 YOU KNOW THE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

1:19:28 BE IN BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO

1:19:29 START THIS EDUCATION EARLY,

1:19:31 RIGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:19:32 STUDENTS UM, UNDERSTAND THEIR

1:19:36 RESPONSIBILITY.

1:19:36 UM, AND THE BENEFIT

1:19:39 OF PARTICIPATING IN OUR

1:19:40 DEMOCRACY.

1:19:41 UM, SO ANY KIND OF EDUCATIONAL

1:19:43 PROGRAM THAT WE COULD, YOU

1:19:45 KNOW, THAT WE COULD BUILD

1:19:46 WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WOULD

1:19:47 BE AMAZING.

1:19:48 UM, THE OTHER THING I THINK

1:19:50 THAT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS

1:19:53 OF MAKING IT MORE ACCESSIBLE, I

1:19:55 LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING, YOU

1:19:57 KNOW, HAVING ELECTION DAY BE UH

1:19:59 ,BE A HOLIDAY.

1:20:01 BUT YOU KNOW, EVEN ASIDE FROM

1:20:02 THAT, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE

1:20:04 CAN MAKE IT SO THAT, UM, YOU

1:20:06 KNOW THAT THAT STUDENTS YOUNGER

1:20:09 PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS

1:20:11 THEIR RESPONSIBILITY?

1:20:13 I THINK HOWEVER WE CAN MAKE

1:20:14 THAT HAPPEN WOULD BE AMAZING.

1:20:16 UM, AND I ALSO WANT TO ECHO UM,

1:20:17 SHERYL'S POINT ABOUT THE

1:20:19 SIGNAGE AS I MENTIONED IN MY IN

1:20:21 MY UH, TESTIMONY SIGNAGE IS A

1:20:23 HUGE ISSUE, RIGHT?

1:20:25 PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSED ABOUT

1:20:27 ABOUT HOW THEY GET TO WHERE

1:20:29 THEY GET TO, PARTICULARLY WHEN

1:20:31 WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER

1:20:32 OF I GUESS WARDS WITHIN A

1:20:35 WITHIN LIKE ONE SCHOOL GYM.

1:20:36 RIGHT?

1:20:37 LIKE THEY'RE VERY CONFUSED

1:20:38 ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE,

1:20:40 WHAT THAT MEANS WHERE THEY'RE

1:20:42 SUPPOSED TO BE.

1:20:43 UM AND SO WE SHOULD WE SHOULD

1:20:45 WORK ON WAYS AND MAKING SURE

1:20:47 THAT THE SIGNAGE IS MORE, UM,

1:20:49 VISIBLE AND ACCESSIBLE.

1:20:51 AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO

1:20:53 NOW LIKE BEFORE NOVEMBER.

1:20:55 YEAH, YEAH THANK YOU TRACY.

1:20:57 AND AGAIN ADMIN IS HERE AND

1:21:00 WE'VE.

1:21:00 HEARD A LOT OF.

1:21:01 COMMENTS ABOUT.

1:21:01 SIGNAGE SO WE'LL.

1:21:03 I'M GOING TO TAKE IT.

1:21:04 I'M.

1:21:04 THE AUTHORITY THE LIBERTY TO

1:21:06 SAY.

1:21:06 THAT I KNOW THAT THEY'RE GOING

1:21:07 TO BE WORKING ON SIGNING FOR

1:21:08 THIS UPCOMING ELECTION OKAY.

1:21:10 THAT UH CHAIR RECOGNIZES

1:21:12 COUNCIL YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND

1:21:13 SEVEN MINUTES.

1:21:14 UH THANK YOU, CHAIR.

1:21:16 AND THANK YOU TO THE PARENTS

1:21:17 THAT ARE HERE.

1:21:17 UM, A LOT OF MY, UH, QUESTIONS

1:21:20 HAVE BEEN ANSWERED ALREADY.

1:21:22 UM, BUT I AM HERE FOR

1:21:24 EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN

1:21:26 ADVOCATED FOR.

1:21:27 UM, YOU KNOW, CHERYL, YOU

1:21:28 MENTIONED THE THE SIGNAGE AND I

1:21:30 REMEMBER LIKE YOU DRIVE AROUND

1:21:31 BOSTON AND SOMETIMES YOU SEE,

1:21:33 YOU KNOW, SOMETHING CHAIN

1:21:34 LINKED RIGHT TO ONE OF THESE

1:21:36 LIGHT POLES AND IT'S LIKE

1:21:37 HALFWAY TIPPING OVER OR UM IT'S

1:21:39 NOT REALLY VISIBLE.

1:21:41 SO I DO BELIEVE WE COULD BE A

1:21:43 LOT MORE UM, EXCITED UM, AS A

1:21:46 CITY AND ONE OF THE WAYS IS

1:21:48 JUST MAKING SURE THAT THAT

1:21:49 SIGHTING IS VISIBLE AND VIBRANT

1:21:51 AND BRIGHT UM, BUT ALSO VERY

1:21:53 MUCH IN FAVOR.

1:21:54 OF.

1:21:54 YOU KNOW, MAKING IT A

1:21:56 HOLIDAY, RIGHT?

1:21:56 I MEAN, WHEN YOU HAVE A DAY OFF

1:21:58 YOU'RE LIKE, WHY DO I HAVE A

1:21:59 DAY OFF?

1:22:00 RIGHT?

1:22:00 AND IT'S LIKE YOU START TO PUSH

1:22:02 THAT NARRATIVE THIS IS ELECTION

1:22:03 DAY.

1:22:05 SO ANY ANY WAY UM THAT WE CAN

1:22:06 DO IT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE

1:22:08 SCHOOL I LOVE THAT IDEA.

1:22:10 UM I YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING

1:22:12 THAT JUST SEEMS SO SEAMLESS,

1:22:13 RIGHT?

1:22:14 WE ALREADY HAVE A GROUP

1:22:14 OF VOTERS, UM, IN THE SCHOOLS

1:22:16 WHO ARE PROBABLY WAITING AND

1:22:19 READY TO BE ENGAGED ON ON THIS

1:22:22 TOPIC.

1:22:22 SO IF YOU, UM, HAPPY TO PARTNER

1:22:25 UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT HIGH

1:22:27 SCHOOLS, UH, INSIDE OF DISTRICT

1:22:29 FOUR UM, BUT VERY SUPPORTIVE

1:22:31 OF, YOU KNOW, REDUCING THE

1:22:32 BARRIERS AND SUPPORTIVE OF ALL

1:22:34 YOUR WORK.

1:22:34 THANK YOU.

1:22:35 THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

1:22:36 UH, COUNCIL ORAL.

1:22:39 ALL RIGHT, COUNCILOR MEJIA YOU

1:22:40 CAN USE THE REST OF HIS TIME IF

1:22:42 YOU WANT.

1:22:42 NO, JUST JUST KIDDING.

1:22:43 WE'RE GOING TO DO A SECOND.

1:22:44 ROUND RIGHT NOW AND.

1:22:45 I'LL.

1:22:45 COME.

1:22:45 BACK AND I'LL COME BACK IT UP

1:22:46 AND BACK TO.

1:22:46 YOU IF.

1:22:47 OKAY.

1:22:48 UM, I.

1:22:49 JUST I THINK ACTUALLY ONE OF MY

1:22:52 RETURN QUESTIONS IT WAS WHAT

1:22:55 RIGHTS.

1:22:55 INFORMATION WHAT.

1:22:56 WHAT RIGHTS AND INFORMATION.

1:22:57 TO.

1:22:57 BE.

1:22:58 POSTED EVERY SITE ABOUT

1:22:59 ASSISTANCE ACCESSIBLE EQUIPMENT

1:23:00 .

1:23:01 UM AND THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN

1:23:02 LINE AT 8 P.M. IT SOUNDS.

1:23:03 LIKE YOU ALL WILL SAY THAT.

1:23:04 WE NEED MORE.

1:23:05 OF THAT SIGNAGE.

1:23:06 UM.

1:23:07 ANYTHING SPECIFIC AT THE

1:23:08 POLLING LOCATIONS THAT WE NEED

1:23:11 TO DO A BETTER JOB OF.

1:23:11 OF.

1:23:12 MAKING SURE THERE'S SIGNAGE

1:23:12 ABOUT.

1:23:15 TRACY MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING.

1:23:18 YES.

1:23:19 EXCELLENT ACCESSIBLE

1:23:22 ENTRANCES, ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCES

1:23:24 .

1:23:25 UM E YEAH.

1:23:27 AND AND THEN ALSO.

1:23:29 TRACY YOU UPLIFTED.

1:23:30 THE HEAD YOU UP TO UPLIFTED

1:23:31 THAT HIGGINS AND LEWIS AND

1:23:33 ROXBURY FROM THIS PRIMARY RIGHT

1:23:35 SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SAW

1:23:36 YES YOU WEEKS AGO OKAY.

1:23:37 YEAH.

1:23:38 YES YES.

1:23:40 UM YOU KNOW AND AND IT ALSO

1:23:42 NEEDS TO BE WHEN I SAY

1:23:43 ACCESSIBLE IT ISN'T JUST

1:23:45 WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY UM

1:23:47 BECAUSE THE ACCESSIBILITY LOOKS

1:23:49 DIFFERENT FOR SOMEONE IN A

1:23:51 WHEELCHAIR VERSUS SOMEONE WITH

1:23:52 A WALKER OR A CANE.

1:23:54 RIGHT.

1:23:55 SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I

1:23:56 ENCOUNTERED, UM, YOU KNOW, ONCE

1:24:01 WE COULD ONCE WE FIGURED OUT

1:24:02 LIKE THE THE AUTOMATIC DOOR

1:24:04 SITUATION.

1:24:04 RIGHT.

1:24:05 THAT WAS FINE.

1:24:06 THERE WAS A RAMP YOU COULD GET

1:24:07 THROUGH THE AUTOMATIC DOOR.

1:24:09 UM, BUT THEN YOU HAD TO

1:24:10 LITERALLY GO ABOUT THE LENGTH

1:24:12 OF A FOOTBALL FIELD BEFORE YOU

1:24:13 GOT TO THE ELEVATOR THAT WAS

1:24:15 THEN GOING TO TAKE YOU UP SO

1:24:17 THAT DISTANCE WORKS FINE FOR

1:24:19 SOMEONE IN IN A WHEELCHAIR THAT

1:24:21 MIGHT NOT WORK WELL FOR SOMEONE

1:24:23 WHO HAS TO WALK THAT DISTANCE

1:24:24 AND HAS YOU KNOW, MOBILITY

1:24:26 CHALLENGES.

1:24:27 RIGHT?

1:24:28 SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT

1:24:29 THROUGH A VARIETY

1:24:30 OF ACCESSIBILITY LENSES.

1:24:32 UM AND AND THAT'S IMPORTANT AS

1:24:34 WELL.

1:24:35 THANK YOU TRACY.

1:24:38 UM.

1:24:39 .

1:24:39 UH WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR

1:24:41 EDUCATING VOTERS.

1:24:42 ABOUT THE.

1:24:43 COMPLEXITY OF.

1:24:45 UH, THE QUESTION.

1:24:46 NOT THEY'RE NOT COMPLEX BUT

1:24:48 THERE ARE NINE QUESTIONS.

1:24:49 ON.

1:24:50 THE BALLOT.

1:24:50 UM, AND SO WHAT IS A PLAN.

1:24:52 TO.

1:24:53 EDUCATE VOTERS I WILL NEVER

1:24:54 FORGET.

1:24:56 ON ELECTION DAY IN 2020.

1:24:59 WITH, UH.

1:25:00 RANKED CHOICE VOTING

1:25:01 STATEWIDE.

1:25:02 BEFORE I WAS ELECTED MYSELF

1:25:04 RANKED CHOICE.

1:25:04 VOTING WAS ON.

1:25:05 THE.

1:25:06 BALLOT STATEWIDE.

1:25:07 AND I REMEMBER TALKING.

1:25:08 TO VOTERS.

1:25:08 WHO.

1:25:09 CAME OUT.

1:25:10 OF UH, THE.

1:25:11 POLLING LOCATIONS AND.

1:25:12 SAID THAT THEY VOTED NO ON

1:25:13 IT BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T

1:25:14 UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION AND

1:25:16 LIKE I WANTED TO TEAR MY HAIR

1:25:17 OUT BECAUSE I'M LIKE WE COULD

1:25:18 HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB OF VOTER

1:25:20 EDUCATION, BUT HOW ARE WE

1:25:22 EXPLAINING TO PEOPLE IN SIMPLE

1:25:24 TERMS WHAT ARE THE NINE

1:25:25 QUESTIONS AND WHAT THEY WOULD

1:25:27 MEAN FOR PEOPLE?

1:25:29 YEAH I KNOW WE ALL HAVE.

1:25:31 SOMETHING TO SAY HERE BUT I CAN

1:25:32 SEE.

1:25:33 A REAL QUICK UM.

1:25:34 UH JUST.

1:25:35 A PLUG FOR THE LEAGUE HAS

1:25:36 BEEN WORKING ON EDUCATING EVEN

1:25:38 JUST THROUGH THE BALLOT

1:25:39 PROCESS.

1:25:40 I THINK THIS HERE HIGHLIGHTED

1:25:41 QUITE A BIT ABOUT BALLOT

1:25:43 QUESTIONS WHAT WE LOVE, WHAT

1:25:44 PEOPLE WANT TO WORK ON THAT

1:25:45 KIND OF THING.

1:25:46 SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING FOR ABOUT

1:25:47 A YEAR NOW ON UM EDUCATING

1:25:49 VOTERS ON ALL THE PROPOSALS

1:25:51 THEN.

1:25:52 ALL THE QUESTIONS NOW AND NOW

1:25:53 INTO WHAT OUR ADVOCACY IS.

1:25:55 UM, THE NUMBER ONE TOOL I

1:25:57 RECOMMEND FOR VOTERS AND WHAT

1:25:58 WE HAVE BEEN REALLY PUSHING IS

1:25:59 OUR VOTE FOR ON 1.ORG ONLINE

1:26:01 TOOL.

1:26:01 WE PUT IT IN SIMPLE TERMS FOR

1:26:03 THE BALLOT QUESTIONS.

1:26:05 UM THIS IS ALSO SEPARATE FROM

1:26:06 OUR ADVOCACY WORK VOTE FOUR ON

1:26:07 ONE SO WE DON'T PROVIDE YOU

1:26:09 KNOW WHICH QUESTION WE'RE

1:26:11 SUPPORTING.

1:26:11 UM IT'S JUST THE PLAIN LANGUAGE

1:26:13 INFORMATION ON A YES AND A NO

1:26:15 VOTE UM.

1:26:16 VOTE.

1:26:16 FOR A RUN ALSO ALLOWS VOTERS ON

1:26:18 ELECTION DAY TO HAVE UM THEY

1:26:20 CAN TOGGLE ON THEIR PHONE SO

1:26:22 THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, SAVE A

1:26:23 QUESTION, SAVE A YES VOTE, SAVE

1:26:25 A NO VOTE AND BE ABLE TO REFER

1:26:26 BACK TO IT IN AN EASY AND

1:26:28 ACCESSIBLE WAY AT THE BALLOT

1:26:29 BOX AS WELL.

1:26:30 WE KEEP IT RUNNING UP UNTIL THE

1:26:32 A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER THE

1:26:34 ELECTION.

1:26:34 SO THERE'S NO WAY THAT VOTERS

1:26:36 WOULD, YOU KNOW, SHOW UP AT THE

1:26:38 POLLING LOCATION AT 755.

1:26:39 AND NOT.

1:26:40 HAVE ACCESS TO THAT

1:26:41 INFORMATION.

1:26:42 UM, WE'VE ALSO BEEN DOING OUR

1:26:43 BALLOT QUESTION FORUMS ACROSS

1:26:45 THE STATE WITH OUR LOCAL

1:26:47 LEAGUES.

1:26:47 UM, I KNOW HERE WE HAVE BEEN

1:26:49 FOCUSING A BIT MORE ON ZOOM

1:26:51 JUST BECAUSE OF THE INTEREST

1:26:52 IN.

1:26:53 UH, THESE.

1:26:53 UH, QUESTIONS AND AND HOW HIGH

1:26:55 PROFILE THEY ARE.

1:26:56 BUT THAT WOULD BE OUR RESPONSE

1:26:58 AND HOW WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.

1:27:00 UM, AND REFERRING PEOPLE

1:27:01 CONTINUALLY TO THE RED BOOK

1:27:02 THIS YEAR UM, AS LONG AS IT MAY

1:27:04 BE UM BECAUSE OF THE GREAT

1:27:06 INFORMATION.

1:27:06 WITHIN IT.

1:27:07 THANK YOU.

1:27:07 THIS WILL BE MY LAST QUESTION

1:27:08 BECAUSE I WAS.

1:27:09 GOING TO GET.

1:27:10 OH OH.

1:27:10 GO AHEAD SHARE MY BAD I'M

1:27:11 SORRY.

1:27:12 NO BECAUSE I'M SO EXCITED.

1:27:13 YES BECAUSE YOU'VE.

1:27:14 BEEN.

1:27:14 WORKING ON THIS IS YOUR BABY.

1:27:16 FRESH HOT.

1:27:17 OFF THE PRESS WE.

1:27:18 CREATED A BOOKMARK SO IT'S

1:27:20 SKINNY RIGHT?

1:27:21 AND IT HAS THE NINE QUESTIONS

1:27:23 FIVE ON THE.

1:27:23 FRONT.

1:27:24 FOUR ON THE BACK AND IT.

1:27:25 HAS THE QUESTION AND IT SAYS

1:27:28 YES NO.

1:27:29 AND WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO DO IS

1:27:32 TO GIVE IT OUT EVERYWHERE

1:27:33 MOVING FORWARD AT ALL OF OUR

1:27:35 EVENTS TABLING EVENTS THE FORM

1:27:38 AND.

1:27:38 ASK EVERYBODY TO.

1:27:39 MAKE THAT DECISION BEFORE AND

1:27:41 TAKE THIS BOOKMARK WITH YOU,

1:27:43 UM.

1:27:44 TO THE POLLING LOCATION.

1:27:45 NO ONE IS GOING TO SIT UP

1:27:46 THERE AND.

1:27:46 READ THAT RED BOOK, UM COVER TO

1:27:49 COVER AND UNDERSTAND IT.

1:27:51 UH, AND.

1:27:52 THEN REMEMBER THEN DEFINITELY

1:27:53 NOT GOING TO GO INTO THE

1:27:55 POLLING LOCATION YOU HAND THEM

1:27:56 I.

1:27:56 ANTICIPATE THE BALLOTS GOING TO

1:27:58 BE ABOUT FIVE AT MINIMUM SEVEN

1:28:00 PAGES.

1:28:00 HOW MANY PAGES?

1:28:01 ONLY THREE.

1:28:03 COMMISSIONERS INQUIRY.

1:28:04 WELL I'M JUST THINKING NINE

1:28:06 QUESTIONS BUT ANYWAY UM BUT

1:28:09 ASKING PEOPLE TO FLIP FLIP FLIP

1:28:11 .

1:28:11 KNOW WOULD KNOW WE ALWAYS ASK

1:28:13 PEOPLE TO MAKE A.

1:28:14 PLAN.

1:28:15 BEFORE YOU.

1:28:15 HOW ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE NOW

1:28:16 WE'RE ASKING YOU TO MAKE.

1:28:17 SURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND

1:28:18 WHAT'S ON THE BALLOT BEFORE YOU

1:28:20 WALK IN THERE.

1:28:21 THOSE NINE BALLOT QUESTIONS CAN

1:28:23 BE YOU KNOW, OH COME SOON.

1:28:25 AND SO YES THANK YOU THAT'S

1:28:27 GREAT AND I LOVE I HOPE THAT

1:28:29 BOOKMARK GETS PROMOTED.

1:28:30 AND I ALSO HOPE THAT I KNOW

1:28:32 THAT YOU MIGHT VOTE IS

1:28:33 NONPARTISAN BUT I HOPE THAT WE

1:28:34 ARE YOU KNOW GIVING PEOPLE LIKE

1:28:36 YES ON QUESTION FOUR NO ONE

1:28:38 QUESTION THREE THAT WE ARE

1:28:39 GIVING UH I KNOW THAT YOU ARE

1:28:41 SAYING THAT.

1:28:41 AND.

1:28:42 SAYING THAT THOSE ARE THE

1:28:42 POSITIONS THAT YOU KNOW, I'M

1:28:44 PREPARED TO TAKE THAT WE ARE

1:28:45 ALSO SHARING THAT INFORMATION

1:28:46 WITH OTHERS.

1:28:47 UM, OKAY.

1:28:48 I'M GOING TO UH

1:28:51 COUNCIL COUNCILPERSON BREADON,

1:28:52 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND FIVE

1:28:53 MINUTES FOR ANY ADDITIONAL

1:28:54 QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

1:28:55 UM, I THINK THE BALLOT THE

1:28:59 BALANCE, THE THE THE BALLOT

1:29:02 CHALLENGE CAUSED HICCUPS IN THE

1:29:04 POLLING PROCESS THE LAST TIME.

1:29:06 SO MULTIPLE SHEETS I THINK UM I

1:29:09 THINK IT'S A QUESTION OF MAYBE

1:29:10 POLLING WORKERS NO 1 TO 1 PAGE

1:29:13 AT A TIME AND PUT THEM IN

1:29:14 SLOWLY AND DON'T PUT THEM FEED

1:29:16 THEM ALL IN TOGETHER LIKE COULD

1:29:18 GET CHEWED UP.

1:29:19 AND THEN IT'S IT SCREWS UP THE

1:29:20 WHOLE PROCESS.

1:29:22 BUT UM IN TERMS OF THINKING

1:29:26 ABOUT UM.

1:29:28 THE BALLOT THE BALLOT QUESTIONS

1:29:32 PEOPLE JUST SKIP THOSE BECAUSE

1:29:34 IT'S JUST TOO HARD TO THINK

1:29:35 ABOUT OR UM AND THEN OR TO THE

1:29:38 I DON'T WANT THEM TO THROW THE

1:29:39 BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER AND

1:29:41 DECIDE OH THIS IS JUST TOO MUCH

1:29:42 I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO BOTHER

1:29:44 VOTING.

1:29:44 IS THAT WHAT'S YOUR EXPERIENCE

1:29:45 WITH UM YEAH.

1:29:46 THAT'S WHAT I AND THAT'S WHAT.

1:29:48 I BELIEVE IN.

1:29:49 THE WRITING IS SMALL THE.

1:29:50 WRITING IN.

1:29:51 ESPECIALLY FINDING OUT.

1:29:53 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO PUT

1:29:54 NINE BALLOT QUESTIONS ON THREE

1:29:55 PAGES AND I KNOW THE WRITING IS

1:29:57 GOING TO BE SMALL NOW.

1:29:58 RIGHT.

1:29:59 WE NEED TO MAKE IT LARGER.

1:30:00 BUT UM.

1:30:03 I THINK PEOPLE GET DISCOURAGED

1:30:05 BUT BUT.

1:30:06 THE POINT I WANT TO BRING.

1:30:07 UP HERE IN THIS MOMENT IS I

1:30:09 REMEMBER TWO YEARS AGO WE HAD

1:30:11 MAYBE 2 OR 3 BALLOT TWO BALLOT

1:30:12 QUESTIONS BUT IT WAS TWO PAGES

1:30:14 TO THE BALLOT AND I.

1:30:16 REMEMBER IN.

1:30:17 ROXBURY THEY WERE ONLY GIVEN

1:30:18 OUT ONE PAGE.

1:30:19 THEY WEREN'T GIVING OUT TWO

1:30:21 PAGES.

1:30:21 MANY OF.

1:30:22 THOSE BALLOT.

1:30:22 QUESTIONS DID NOT GET APPROVED

1:30:24 OR VOTED ON BECAUSE THEY DID

1:30:25 NOT HAVE TWO PAGES.

1:30:27 I WANT TO MAKE SURE.

1:30:28 THIS YEAR IF HOWEVER MANY PAGES

1:30:30 IT IS THAT EVERY PRECINCT HAS

1:30:33 ALL THE PAGES AND THAT THE

1:30:35 TRAINERS THE POLL WORKERS YOU

1:30:37 KNOW ARE TRAINED TO MAKE SURE

1:30:39 THAT THESE PACKAGES ARE GETTING

1:30:41 IN EVERYONE'S HAND NOT

1:30:43 PARTIALLY.

1:30:43 IT'S NOT FAIR TO THE BALLOT

1:30:45 QUESTIONS THAT ARE ON THE BACK.

1:30:46 IF THE LAST PAGE IS NOT EVEN

1:30:48 GIVEN TO THE VOTER.

1:30:50 .

1:30:51 THE OTHER QUESTION HOW MANY

1:30:52 DO YOU WANT THEM TO UNDERSTAND

1:30:53 ?

1:30:53 YEAH I WOULD.

1:30:54 JUST ADD THAT YOU.

1:30:55 KNOW, FOR US PART OF THE

1:30:57 EDUCATION WITH THE BALLOT

1:30:58 QUESTIONS AS WELL AS NOT ONLY,

1:30:59 YOU KNOW, THE APATHY OR THE

1:31:01 CONFUSION THAT HAVING SO MANY

1:31:03 QUESTIONS HAS BUT ALSO JUST THE

1:31:04 SIMPLY TURN OVER YOUR BALLOT

1:31:07 CHECK THAT NEXT PAGE FOR VOTERS

1:31:09 .

1:31:09 UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT

1:31:10 YOU KNOW, WE LOOK TO WORK IN

1:31:11 PARTNERSHIP WITH ADMINISTRATORS

1:31:13 AND POLL WORKERS ON IN OUR

1:31:14 EDUCATION OF JUST REMINDING

1:31:16 VOTERS THAT THERE IS MORE THAN

1:31:17 THE CANDIDATES ON THE BALLOT.

1:31:18 AND THAT THEY.

1:31:19 DO HAVE.

1:31:19 TO CHECK THOSE ADDITIONAL

1:31:20 PAGES FOR THAT A.

1:31:22 NO LIVE ISSUE.

1:31:22 I'LL PROBABLY ASK THIS QUESTION

1:31:23 OF OUR OUR ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT

1:31:25 FOLKS WHEN THEY COME, BUT HOW

1:31:27 DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE

1:31:28 ENOUGH UM, ELECTION POLL

1:31:32 WORKERS IN AN ELECTION DAY?

1:31:33 BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IT'S AN

1:31:35 ONEROUS COMMITMENT.

1:31:36 YOU HAVE TO BE THERE VERY EARLY

1:31:37 IN THE MORNING AND YOU'RE

1:31:38 WORKING LATE INTO THE EVENING.

1:31:39 IT'S NOT VERY WELL COMPENSATED

1:31:41 BUT IT IS LIKE A CIVIC DUTY.

1:31:43 PEOPLE TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY.

1:31:45 HOW DO WE RECRUIT MORE PEOPLE

1:31:47 AND GET MORE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY

1:31:48 OUR YOUNGER PEOPLE ENGAGED IN

1:31:49 THIS PROCESS AND.

1:31:52 WE'VE SEEN SO AT THE LEAGUE WE

1:31:54 DO AN EXTENSIVE POLL WORKER

1:31:55 RECRUITMENT.

1:31:56 UM WE KNOW POLL WORKERS ARE

1:31:57 SOME OF THE LIFEBLOOD OF OUR

1:31:59 ELECTIONS.

1:32:00 UM WHAT WE'VE.

1:32:01 SEEN HELP INCENTIVIZE YOUNGER

1:32:03 PEOPLE IS THAT VOLUNTEER HOURS

1:32:05 COULD THIS GO TOWARDS THEIR

1:32:06 NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY

1:32:07 REQUIREMENT?

1:32:07 COULD THIS GO TOWARDS, YOU

1:32:09 KNOW, A RESUME AND GIVING THEM

1:32:11 THE INFORMATION THAT HELPS WITH

1:32:12 THAT?

1:32:13 WE TELL EVERY YOUNG PERSON THAT

1:32:14 COMES TO US AND SAYS I'M GOING

1:32:16 TO BE A POLL WORKER TO COME

1:32:17 BACK TO US AFTER ELECTION DAY

1:32:18 TO GET THE LANGUAGE ON HOW TO

1:32:20 REFLECT THAT IN COLLEGE

1:32:21 APPLICATIONS IN THEIR RESUMES

1:32:22 AND THAT KIND OF WORK.

1:32:24 SO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE I THINK

1:32:25 IT'S KIND OF EMPHASIZING WHAT

1:32:27 BEING A POLL WORKER MEANS AND

1:32:28 HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS AND HOW

1:32:30 ADMITTEDLY GREAT THAT LOOKS FOR

1:32:32 THEM UM, AS BEING THAT

1:32:33 INVOLVED.

1:32:33 BUT AS FAR AS UM, OTHER PEOPLE

1:32:36 BECAUSE I THINK UNDERSTANDING

1:32:37 UM FOR THOSE THAT YOU KNOW,

1:32:39 HAVE BEEN VOTING WHAT THE ROLE

1:32:40 OF A POLL WORKER IS UM, AND WHY

1:32:42 THAT'S SO IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW,

1:32:44 WE ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE IT'S

1:32:45 THEIR CIVIC DUTY, BUT THE.

1:32:47 FUNCTION OF A POLL WORKER CAN

1:32:48 SOMETIMES BE A MYSTERY TO.

1:32:49 UM, CONSTITUENTS.

1:32:51 SO I WOULD POINT TO JUST

1:32:52 FURTHER EDUCATION AND KIND

1:32:53 OF LIKE THE DUTIES AND

1:32:54 RESPONSIBILITIES HOW LONG OUR

1:32:56 SHIFTS, YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE

1:32:58 COMPENSATION AND SAYING THAT

1:32:58 PLAINLY IF IT'S VOLUNTEERISM OR

1:33:02 WHAT CAN THAT GO TOWARDS KIND

1:33:03 OF THING JUST PROVIDING THAT

1:33:04 SORT OF VALUE ADDED TO THE UM

1:33:06 VOLUNTEER CHOOSING TO DO THAT

1:33:07 WORK.

1:33:08 I ALSO THINK UM I'D LOVE TO

1:33:09 HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ON CIVICS

1:33:10 EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS.

1:33:12 I KNOW WHEN I WAS A KIDDO UM

1:33:14 OUR SCHOOL CLOSED FOR ELECTION

1:33:15 DAY AND ALL THE GEAR ARRIVED

1:33:17 AND OUR PRINCIPALS WE WERE

1:33:20 REALLY TINY COUNTRY SCHOOL BUT

1:33:22 WE ACTUALLY ENACTED WHAT WAS

1:33:24 GOING TO HAPPEN THE NEXT DAY

1:33:25 FOR THE BIG FOR THE ADULTS.

1:33:27 BUT WE HAD A LITTLE ELECTION

1:33:29 AND EXPLAINED WHAT WHAT VOTING

1:33:31 WAS ALL ABOUT.

1:33:32 BUT HOW DO WE HOW DO WE IMPROVE

1:33:34 OUR CIVICS EDUCATION?

1:33:35 AND BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S A

1:33:37 BIG BIG ISSUE AS WELL.

1:33:39 LIKE WHAT HOW DO WE HOW DO WE

1:33:41 GET INCREASE VOTER

1:33:42 PARTICIPATION THROUGH STARTING

1:33:44 GET THEM EARLY.

1:33:46 THAT'S WHERE I WAS GOING TO GO

1:33:48 WITH TRACY STARTING WITH THAT

1:33:49 WE HAVE TO START EARLIER AND

1:33:50 MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE FAMILIAR

1:33:52 WITH THE PROCESS.

1:33:53 THE OTHER POINT I WANTED TO

1:33:55 BRING THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT IS

1:33:56 PARTNERING WITH COLLEGES I KNOW

1:33:57 SUFFOLK VOTES, WE PARTNERED

1:33:59 WITH SOMETHING VOTES ON THEIR

1:34:01 ACTIVITIES TO TURN OUT THE

1:34:03 STUDENTS IN AT SUFFOLK, BUT

1:34:05 THEY WERE PART OF A MUCH LARGER

1:34:08 UM PROCESS RIGHT?

1:34:09 THEY OF THE COLLEGES BUT REALLY

1:34:11 HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK

1:34:12 WITH THOSE STUDENTS ABOUT TO

1:34:14 YOUR POINT HOW IT IMPACTS THEIR

1:34:17 LIFE RIGHT AND HOW MUCH FUN IT

1:34:18 CAN BE BECAUSE IT REALLY IS FUN

1:34:20 ON ELECTION DAY TO BE ENGAGED,

1:34:21 CIVICALLY ENGAGED AND IT'S

1:34:23 MEANINGFUL.

1:34:23 BUT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE

1:34:25 PARTNER WITH COLLEGES.

1:34:27 I THINK THAT'S GOOD.

1:34:28 THAT'S A.

1:34:28 MAKING IT A SOCIAL.

1:34:30 EVENT AND YOU KNOW, LET'S GO

1:34:32 FOR COFFEE OR GO FOR A BEER OR

1:34:33 WHATEVER IT IS, UM, TO MAKE IT

1:34:35 A SOCIAL EVENT THAT YOU.

1:34:37 DO AS.

1:34:37 A GROUP.

1:34:39 UM YEAH.

1:34:39 THANK YOU.

1:34:41 OH YEAH.

1:34:42 THE ACLU.

1:34:42 DOES A NUMBER OF, UM, CIVIC

1:34:44 EDUCATION SCHOOLS AROUND THE

1:34:46 COMMONWEALTH.

1:34:46 UM, OUR TARGET AUDIENCE IS AT

1:34:49 IS YOU KNOW, IS ADULTS.

1:34:51 BUT I COULD ABSOLUTELY SEE HOW

1:34:53 THIS COULD BE SOMETHING THAT

1:34:54 COULD BE, YOU KNOW, PUT INTO

1:34:55 SCHOOLS.

1:34:56 UM, YOU KNOW, IF THE SCHOOLS

1:34:57 ARE INTERESTED IN IN IT IN IT

1:34:59 AND I DO YEAH, I I COMPLETELY

1:35:02 BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO START

1:35:03 THIS PROCESS EARLIER.

1:35:05 RIGHT.

1:35:06 STUDENTS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY

1:35:07 THIS IS IMPORTANT.

1:35:10 UM, AND I, I, I LOVE THE IDEA

1:35:12 OF OF GETTING STUDENTS TO

1:35:14 UNDERSTAND THAT POLL BEING A

1:35:16 POLL WORKER COULD BE TO THEIR

1:35:18 BENEFIT AS WELL AS DOING GOOD

1:35:20 IN THE COMMUNITY.

1:35:21 RIGHT.

1:35:23 SO YEAH, I THINK THERE ARE A

1:35:24 NUMBER OF WAYS THAT WE CAN

1:35:25 APPROACH IT.

1:35:26 THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

1:35:28 THANK YOU.

1:35:29 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:35:30 UH, COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRANDON,

1:35:31 THANK YOU TO THIS PANEL, UH,

1:35:32 THE.

1:35:32 TRACK AND.

1:35:33 AS A COUNCIL MEMBER YOU HAVE

1:35:34 FIVE MINUTES.

1:35:35 THANK YOU.

1:35:36 UM, I WILL SAY, UH, THE

1:35:38 AROUND THE PRESIDENTIAL

1:35:39 ELECTION 2024, I WENT OUT WITH

1:35:41 A GROUP OF FIFTH GRADERS AT THE

1:35:43 B2 SCHOOL.

1:35:44 I RECREATED SOMETHING THAT I

1:35:46 REMEMBER FROM BEING A FIFTH

1:35:47 GRADER AND WE WE RAN THROUGH

1:35:48 THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND WE

1:35:50 DID A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

1:35:52 WHEN I WAS IN FIFTH GRADE IT

1:35:54 WAS MONDALE REAGAN BUT UH BUT

1:35:57 AND I WE DIDN'T DO TRUMP HARRIS

1:35:59 BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD JUST

1:36:00 BE A LANDSLIDE.

1:36:01 SO WE DID MICHAEL JACKSON

1:36:02 VERSUS TAYLOR SWIFT AND MICHAEL

1:36:04 JACKSON WON THE POPULAR VOTE,

1:36:06 BUT TAYLOR SWIFT WON THE

1:36:07 ELECTORAL COLLEGE BECAUSE SHE

1:36:08 HAD CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA.

1:36:10 BUT UM UH BUT I MEAN THAT STUCK

1:36:12 WITH ME FOR A LOT OF YEARS.

1:36:14 UH, AND I HOPEFULLY THOSE KIDS

1:36:17 UH, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER THAT

1:36:18 KIND OF EXPERIENCE.

1:36:20 I THINK WE CAN DO A LOT IN THE

1:36:21 SCHOOLS AROUND THAT.

1:36:23 THANK YOU TO TRACY BILLY AT THE

1:36:24 SCHOOLS LIBRARIAN THERE FOR FOR

1:36:26 DOING THAT WITH ME.

1:36:27 UM, OKAY, SO NUMBER ONE I GUESS

1:36:29 MAYBE THIS IS FOR FOR UH, TRACY

1:36:31 UP THERE FOR.

1:36:32 ADA COMPLIANCE.

1:36:34 UM, DO WE HAVE LIKE UH UH ALL

1:36:37 THE POLLING PLACES AUDITED OR

1:36:39 DO YOU HAVE OR IS THIS JUST

1:36:40 LIKE YOU YOU'VE BEEN TO A FEW

1:36:42 AND YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT

1:36:43 PROBLEMS?

1:36:44 DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF LIKE IF

1:36:45 WE HAD TO GRADE ALL THE

1:36:47 LOCATIONS, HAVE WE HAD THEM

1:36:49 VISITED AND SIGNED OFF ON OR

1:36:51 NOT?

1:36:52 IT'S FUNNY YOU SHOULD

1:36:52 MENTION THAT.

1:36:53 SO, UH, THE ELECTION

1:36:55 MODERNIZATION COALITION HAS A

1:36:57 BILL UM, THAT THAT IS ASKING

1:37:00 THAT THE POLLING PLACES BE

1:37:02 AUDITED ON A REGULAR BASIS.

1:37:04 UM, MAYBE CELIA CAN LOOK THAT

1:37:07 ONE UP TOO, BUT UM YEAH, WE YOU

1:37:11 KNOW, THE IDEA IS THAT A

1:37:13 REGULAR AUDIT OF THE POLLING

1:37:15 PLACES AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH

1:37:16 WOULD ALERT US TO THESE ISSUES

1:37:18 AND PROBLEMS, UM, AHEAD OF TIME

1:37:20 AS OPPOSED TO US FINDING

1:37:21 FINDING OUT ABOUT THESE

1:37:22 SITUATIONS THE DAY OF I MEAN,

1:37:24 SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES THAT,

1:37:27 UM, I WAS BASED IN LAWRENCE UM

1:37:30 PRIMARY DAY UM, AND WE HAD

1:37:33 OTHER FOLKS YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY

1:37:34 AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH BUT

1:37:35 SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE RAN

1:37:37 INTO COULD HAVE BEEN REMEDIED.

1:37:39 UM, YOU KNOW, HAD WE HAD WE

1:37:40 JUST HAD A LITTLE BIT OF NOTICE

1:37:42 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND

1:37:44 OUT UM, IN A COUPLE OF PLACES

1:37:45 BECAUSE WE USE SCHOOL

1:37:47 BUILDINGS, UM, WE RAN INTO

1:37:50 SITUATIONS WHERE SCHOOL STAFF

1:37:53 WERE LEAVING AT 3:00 AND SO

1:37:57 DOORS WERE THEN LOCKED BECAUSE

1:38:01 SCHOOL STAFF WAS NOT THERE TO

1:38:03 KEEP THEM OPEN.

1:38:05 UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE

1:38:07 COULD IDENTIFY AHEAD OF TIME

1:38:09 RECOGNIZING THE SCHEDULING THAT

1:38:11 EXISTS IN, YOU KNOW, IN OUR

1:38:13 SCHOOLS.

1:38:13 UM, SO THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE

1:38:16 BUT YES, BUT THE IDEA

1:38:18 OF AUDITING POLLING PLACES HAS

1:38:21 IS OUT THERE.

1:38:22 WE HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR

1:38:23 THAT.

1:38:24 UM, IT JUST HAS NOT.

1:38:27 GONE THE WAY WE.

1:38:28 HAD.

1:38:28 HOPED FOR.

1:38:29 OKAY.

1:38:30 UM UH THEN SO IN TERMS

1:38:33 OF LIKE FEDERAL OFFICIALS

1:38:34 SHOWING UP AT POLLING STATIONS

1:38:36 IS CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN LIKE

1:38:38 WHAT WAS THE REAL REASON WHY

1:38:40 THEY WERE HERE DURING THE

1:38:42 DURING THE PRIMARIES AND THEN

1:38:44 DO YOU EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE

1:38:45 ?

1:38:47 SO UM, THERE'S BEEN A HISTORY

1:38:49 AND I BELIEVE RACE ON HALL SORT

1:38:51 OF WAS ALLUDING TO THIS OF OF

1:38:53 DOJ SENDING OBSERVERS UM OR

1:38:57 POLL MONITORS TO POLLING PLACES

1:38:59 TO CHECK IN PARTICULARLY ABOUT

1:39:01 LANGUAGE ACCESS.

1:39:02 SO UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT

1:39:03 THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS

1:39:05 ABOUT UM DIFFERENT TYPES

1:39:07 OF LANGUAGE ACCESS UH OR

1:39:10 DIFFERENT TYPES OF LANGUAGE

1:39:11 ACCESSIBILITY AND.

1:39:15 UM THAT IS SORT OF THE GUISE

1:39:17 UNDER WHICH THEY WERE

1:39:20 PURPORTING TO TO SEND MONITORS

1:39:23 TO POLLING PLACES, UM, IN

1:39:25 SELECT STATES AND SELECT

1:39:27 CITIES.

1:39:28 UM DURING THE PRIMARY.

1:39:30 OKAY.

1:39:32 UH, DO THEY CARE ABOUT ALL

1:39:34 LANGUAGE I ACCESS?

1:39:35 I GUESS I'M JUST YOU KNOW, I

1:39:37 KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED WITH THE

1:39:38 REFUGEE PROGRAM WHERE NOW ALL

1:39:39 OF A SUDDEN ALL WE CARE ABOUT

1:39:40 ARE WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS AND,

1:39:42 UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE ONLY

1:39:43 PEOPLE BEING ADMITTED.

1:39:44 BUT, UH.

1:39:46 SO THERE'S THERE'S AND I DON'T

1:39:47 HAVE THE NUMBER OFF THE TOP

1:39:49 OF MY HEAD BUT THERE ARE

1:39:50 CERTAIN NUMBER OF LANGUAGES, UM

1:39:52 ,THAT ARE RECOGNIZED AS THAT

1:39:54 ARE RECOGNIZED UNDER THE VOTING

1:39:56 RIGHTS ACT.

1:39:56 AND THEN IN CERTAIN

1:39:59 MUNICIPALITIES IT DEPENDS ON

1:40:00 SORT OF THE THE POPULATION

1:40:03 OF FOLKS THAT SPEAK THOSE

1:40:04 LANGUAGES.

1:40:06 UM, SO IT DIFFERS BASED ON YOU

1:40:08 KNOW, A TOWN OR A CITY LIKE

1:40:09 BOSTON WOULD HAVE DIFFERENT

1:40:11 LANGUAGES THAN MAYBE WORCESTER

1:40:13 .

1:40:14 UM.

1:40:17 YEAH.

1:40:17 OKAY.

1:40:17 AND THEN.

1:40:18 JUST IN TERMS OF THE UH THE

1:40:20 PRACTICE OF PUTTING PEOPLE ON

1:40:21 AN ACTIVE STATUS, UH, SO IS

1:40:24 THERE A POLICY REASON TO KEEP

1:40:27 THAT LIKE YOU KNOW, IS THERE A

1:40:30 GOOD POLICY REASON FOR THAT OR

1:40:31 JUST YOU?

1:40:32 I THINK.

1:40:33 I CAN SPEAK FOR ALL OF US THAT

1:40:34 THE ANSWER TO THAT IS NO.

1:40:36 OKAY.

1:40:37 UH AND UM I GUESS MAYBE PART

1:40:42 OF THAT IS ALSO I KNOW THERE'S

1:40:44 PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE CENSUS

1:40:46 PROCESS.

1:40:47 THERE'S BEEN ATTEMPTS TO GET

1:40:48 IMMIGRATION STATUS PUT ON THE

1:40:50 CENSUS.

1:40:50 I THINK COUNCILOR BRADEN'S

1:40:52 ESSENTIALLY UH, TALKING ABOUT

1:40:54 SOME OF THAT PEOPLE DON'T WANT

1:40:56 TO RETURN THEIR CENSUS SO THAT

1:40:58 THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER REASON TO

1:40:59 MAKE SURE BY 2030 WE'RE NOT

1:41:01 STILL RELYING ON THAT IN I TO

1:41:03 HAVE THAT CORRECT.

1:41:05 UM, YEAH.

1:41:06 WE COULD GO DOWN.

1:41:07 THE THERE'S A LAUNDRY LIST

1:41:08 OF, YOU KNOW, REASONS TO UM

1:41:10 DECOUPLE I, I WOULD POINT TO

1:41:12 THAT ESPECIALLY YOU KNOW,

1:41:13 ANYTHING THAT CAN HELP BOOST UM

1:41:15 VOTERS CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN

1:41:17 WHAT THEY'RE EXPECTED TO

1:41:19 PROVIDE AS PART OF THE PROCESS

1:41:20 IS ALWAYS A BENEFIT.

1:41:22 UH, BUT WE.

1:41:23 KNOW THAT DECOUPLING WHEN WE GO

1:41:24 DOWN THE UM, LINE ON REASONS I

1:41:26 MEAN IT'S FULL CENSUS CAN BE A

1:41:28 BARRIER.

1:41:28 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE

1:41:30 YOU KNOW, ONE'S UM CENSUS PER

1:41:32 HOUSEHOLD IN UH THE STATE IT

1:41:34 CAN EVEN GO AS FAR AS YOU KNOW,

1:41:36 AT THE LEAGUE WE POINT TO

1:41:37 VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

1:41:38 WHO MAY NOT JUST STRAIGHT UP

1:41:39 GET ACCESS TO THEIR MAIL OR

1:41:41 THEIR VOTE.

1:41:41 WE GO INTO UM, YOU KNOW,

1:41:44 TALKING ABOUT UM, ACCESSIBILITY

1:41:46 THAT MANY OF THESE STREET

1:41:47 LISTINGS AREN'T PROVIDED IN

1:41:49 BRAILLE OR WITH A SCREEN READER

1:41:50 OR ANY KIND OF WAY FOR.

1:41:52 FOLKS WITH VISION.

1:41:53 PROBLEMS OR EVEN THE FILLING

1:41:54 OUT OF THE ACTUAL PAPERWORK

1:41:56 WHICH I KNOW IN BOSTON THERE IS

1:41:57 AN ONLINE VERSION AND I WANT TO

1:41:58 COMMEND YOU FOR THAT.

1:41:59 UM, THAT IS NOT SOMETHING WE

1:42:01 SHARE ACROSS THE STATE.

1:42:02 UM, SO THERE'S A LOT

1:42:03 OF BARRIERS TO EVEN FILLING

1:42:05 THIS OUT EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO

1:42:06 DO IT IN GOOD NATURE AND YOU

1:42:08 TRUST IT, THERE'S STILL THOSE

1:42:09 BARRIERS THERE.

1:42:10 IT JUST IT ONLY STANDS TO BE IN

1:42:12 THE WAY OF VOTERS.

1:42:13 THANK YOU OKAY THANK YOU CHAIR.

1:42:15 THANK YOU.

1:42:16 UH, COUNCIL WHATEVER THE CHAIR

1:42:18 RECOGNIZES COMES FROM HERE.

1:42:18 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND FIVE

1:42:19 MINUTES.

1:42:20 THANK YOU.

1:42:20 CHAIR.

1:42:21 UM, SO YES.

1:42:24 REAL QUICK.

1:42:26 UM.

1:42:26 YOU CAN GO.

1:42:27 I'M JUST STRUGGLING.

1:42:28 TO MAKE SURE.

1:42:29 ALL RIGHT.

1:42:30 SO, UM, I OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE

1:42:32 FACT THAT MY MOM HAS A LOW

1:42:35 LITERACY.

1:42:36 SHE DIDN'T MAKE IT BEYOND THE

1:42:37 THIRD GRADE.

1:42:38 AND SO.

1:42:40 THOSE THAT BOOK IS NOT ONLY THE

1:42:42 LETTERS ARE SMALL, IT'S NOT

1:42:44 ACCESSIBLE TO FOLKS WHO HAVE

1:42:45 LOW LITERACY.

1:42:46 AND I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT IF

1:42:48 ANY ADVOCACY UM, YOU'D LIKE TO

1:42:50 SEE AROUND MAYBE UTILIZING MORE

1:42:52 VISUALS AS AS WAYS TO EDUCATE

1:42:54 AND INFORM PEOPLE?

1:42:56 I ALSO.

1:42:57 AM A BIG ADVOCATE OF AUDIO.

1:43:00 UM SO JUST CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE

1:43:02 SEEN OTHER OTHER CITIES OR

1:43:04 STATES DOING THINGS AROUND

1:43:06 LANGUAGE INFORMATION JUSTICE IS

1:43:08 REALLY WHAT I LIKE TO CALL IT

1:43:09 NOT JUST LANGUAGE ACCESS.

1:43:11 I JUST THINK THAT WE HAVE TO

1:43:12 START THINKING ABOUT THE WHOLE

1:43:13 PERSON AND I'M CURIOUS WHAT

1:43:14 WHAT IF ANYTHING HAVE YOU SEEN

1:43:16 IN OTHER CITIES AND STATES AS

1:43:17 IT RELATES TO INFORMATION

1:43:19 JUSTICE?

1:43:20 YEAH.

1:43:21 SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO.

1:43:22 WHAT WE'VE.

1:43:22 SEEN IN.

1:43:23 OTHER CITIES OR STATES.

1:43:23 BUT TO YOUR POINT ON AUDIO I

1:43:25 ALWAYS LIKE TO UNDERLINE UM AND

1:43:26 I WANT TO THANK THE DISABILITY

1:43:28 LAW CENTER WHO'S NOT HERE TODAY

1:43:29 BUT POINTED THIS OUT TO US AND

1:43:31 EDUCATED OUR ORGANIZATION THAT

1:43:32 THE AUTO MARK MACHINE THAT IS

1:43:34 TYPICALLY USED FOR FOLKS THAT

1:43:35 MAY NEED HELP FILLING IN UM,

1:43:38 THE CIRCLES OR HELP FILLING OUT

1:43:39 A BALLOT ALSO CAN READ THE

1:43:41 BALLOT TO YOU INCLUDING THE

1:43:42 FULL LANGUAGE OF THESE

1:43:43 QUESTIONS IN MULTIPLE

1:43:45 LANGUAGES.

1:43:45 SO FOR FOLKS THAT YOU KNOW

1:43:47 UNDER OUR CURRENT SYSTEM WHERE

1:43:48 WE HAVE THIS BLOCK OF ACCESS TO

1:43:50 INFORMATION, THE AUTO MARK

1:43:51 MACHINE CAN BE USED FOR SO MUCH

1:43:53 MORE THAN JUST THE FILLING OUT

1:43:54 OF A BALLOT.

1:43:55 IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO BE RIGHT

1:43:56 THAT FOR THOSE THAT MAY HAVE

1:43:58 ISSUES WITH LITERACY UM OR MAY

1:44:00 NOT HAVE THAT ACCESS TO UM

1:44:01 LITERACY PROGRAMS, IT WOULD BE

1:44:03 THE BETTER WAY TO PUT THAT.

1:44:04 UM.

1:44:05 I KNOW IN SOME OF OUR OTHER

1:44:06 STATE LEAGUES UM IN OUR STATE

1:44:08 PARTNERS WE'VE SEEN UM A LITTLE

1:44:09 BIT MORE OF LIKE THE PLAIN

1:44:11 LANGUAGE GO A BIT FARTHER UM,

1:44:13 JUST STRAIGHT UP TRANSLATING IT

1:44:15 FROM THE LEGAL LANGUAGE INTO

1:44:16 THE UM, YOU KNOW, PLAIN

1:44:18 LANGUAGE.

1:44:19 THE PROBLEM THAT WE SEE IN

1:44:20 MASSACHUSETTS FROM A LEAGUE

1:44:21 PERSPECTIVE IS THAT SOME

1:44:22 OF THESE QUESTIONS ARE

1:44:24 INTENTIONALLY COMPLICATED AND

1:44:25 THE LANGUAGE IS INCREDIBLY HARD

1:44:28 TO TRANSLATE NOT ONLY INTO

1:44:29 PLAIN ENGLISH BUT INTO OTHER

1:44:31 LANGUAGES.

1:44:31 UM, IN A WAY I KNOW AT THE

1:44:33 LEAGUE THAT'S BEEN A BARRIER

1:44:34 FOR US INTO TRANSLATING SOME

1:44:35 OF OUR MATERIALS IS WE DON'T

1:44:36 HAVE ACCESS TO BE ABLE TO GET

1:44:38 THAT.

1:44:38 MORE.

1:44:39 TECHNICAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATED.

1:44:40 UM, SO ANYTHING WE CAN SEE

1:44:42 ADVOCACY WISE AND I WELCOME UM

1:44:44 SOLUTIONS FROM OUR PARTNERS AND

1:44:46 UM OUR ADVOCATES ELSEWHERE, UM,

1:44:48 INTO HOW CAN WE KIND

1:44:51 OF DESTIGMATIZE AND KIND

1:44:52 OF TECHNICALLY MAKE.

1:44:54 THESE LESS TECHNICAL I GUESS.

1:44:55 OKAY SO.

1:44:56 YEAH.

1:44:57 I'M OFF TO ANSWER JUST

1:44:58 BECAUSE MY TIME.

1:44:59 IS.

1:44:59 TICKING BUT IF SHE.

1:45:00 SAID EVERYTHING WERE GOOD.

1:45:01 I WOULD JUST ADD REALLY QUICKLY

1:45:02 THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE

1:45:04 SOMEONE HELP.

1:45:05 YOU.

1:45:06 VOTE UM, WHETHER IT'S A

1:45:07 LANGUAGE PROBLEM OR NOT TO YOUR

1:45:09 POINT SORT OF AN INFORMATION

1:45:10 GAP.

1:45:11 SO JUST SPREADING THE WORD THAT

1:45:12 EVERYONE DOES HAVE THAT RIGHT.

1:45:14 YEAH OKAY MESSAGE SHOW YEAH I'M

1:45:16 .

1:45:16 GOOD.

1:45:17 I.

1:45:17 I GOT THREE MORE QUESTIONS.

1:45:18 AND I'M TRYING TO GET THEM

1:45:19 IN BEFORE MY.

1:45:20 TIME OKAY.

1:45:21 SO UM I'M ALSO.

1:45:23 CURIOUS ABOUT.

1:45:23 UH.

1:45:24 THE POLL.

1:45:25 WORKERS IN DIVERSE LANGUAGES.

1:45:26 I'M CURIOUS WHAT IF ANY UM,

1:45:29 PARTNERSHIPS THAT YOU HAVE IN

1:45:31 TERMS OF TAPPING TO NONPROFIT

1:45:33 ORGANIZATIONS WITH.

1:45:34 DIVERSE LANGUAGE.

1:45:35 UH, SKILLS.

1:45:37 I DO KNOW THAT THAT IS THE

1:45:39 FOCUS OF MASS VOTE IN THE VOTER

1:45:41 TABLE BECAUSE WE HAVE UM

1:45:43 REGIONALLY WE HAVE ALL OF THESE

1:45:45 ORGANIZATIONS AND WE HAVE MANY

1:45:46 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND SO WE

1:45:48 WE I HEARD YOU MAKE THIS

1:45:50 REQUEST YESTERDAY IN THE

1:45:51 MEETING ASKING PEOPLE FOR THAT

1:45:53 VERY REASON HAITIAN CREOLE BY

1:45:56 ALL THESE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

1:45:58 WHERE OUR ORGANIZATIONS UM,

1:46:00 THRIVE THAT WERE TRYING TO

1:46:03 RECRUIT POLL WORKERS FROM THOSE

1:46:06 ORGANIZATIONS WITH, YOU KNOW,

1:46:07 HIGHLIGHTING THOSE LANGUAGES.

1:46:09 YEAH.

1:46:09 BECAUSE WHAT I THINK WOULD

1:46:11 BE IMPORTANT IS LIKE YES, WE

1:46:13 NEED IT SAY WE NEED ELECTION

1:46:15 DAY COVERAGE BUT IF THERE'S A

1:46:17 WAY.

1:46:18 I'M LOOKING AT Y'ALL BACK THERE

1:46:20 TO MAYBE EVEN BRING PEOPLE ON

1:46:21 BOARD.

1:46:22 SOONER SO.

1:46:23 THAT THOSE POLL WORKERS ARE

1:46:24 ALSO EDUCATING MAYBE THEIR

1:46:26 IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOODS IT'S

1:46:27 GOING TO BE ELECTION DAY NEXT

1:46:28 WEEK.

1:46:29 MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A PLAN LIKE

1:46:30 THERE'S OTHER WAYS THEN THAT WE

1:46:32 CAN ACTIVATE FOLKS THAT IT'S

1:46:34 NOT JUST A ONE OFF.

1:46:34 AND I THINK THAT THAT WOULD

1:46:36 ALSO HELP SUPPORT UM.

1:46:38 THE THE LEVEL OF ENTHUSIASM.

1:46:40 BECAUSE YOU KNOW, OF UM VOTING

1:46:43 ISN'T SEXY IS NOT FUN LIKE AND

1:46:45 WHO WANTS TO GO TURN UP AT A

1:46:47 POLL?

1:46:47 NOBODY REALLY UNLESS YOU KNOW

1:46:48 WHAT WE CAN MAKE IT FUN.

1:46:49 WE CAN MAKE IT FUN, RIGHT?

1:46:51 SO WE SHOULD.

1:46:52 AND YOU AND I HAVE.

1:46:53 BEEN TO SOME OF YOUR YOUR

1:46:54 ELECTION DAY PARTIES AND I I

1:46:55 LOVE THEM BUT I.

1:46:58 YOU KNOW UNTIL IN 2000.

1:46:59 TO UM.

1:47:01 COUNCIL MEMBERS.

1:47:01 UH, YOU KNOW, GOING DOWN MEMORY

1:47:04 LANE I USED TO WORK AT MTV AND

1:47:06 I COVERED THE PRESIDENTIAL

1:47:07 ELECTIONS BETWEEN GORE AND BUSH

1:47:08 AND I GOT TO TRAVEL THE ENTIRE

1:47:10 COUNTRY TRYING TO GET YOUNG

1:47:12 PEOPLE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT

1:47:14 VOTING.

1:47:14 AND THAT WAS MY FIRST

1:47:16 EXPERIENCE WITH WHY PEOPLE

1:47:17 DON'T CARE.

1:47:18 AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT,

1:47:20 TRACY.

1:47:20 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE

1:47:22 CONNECTION THAT, UH, YOU KNOW,

1:47:24 POLITICS HAS ON THEIR DAY TO

1:47:26 DAY LIFE AND THAT WAS IN 2000

1:47:28 AND THEN AFTER THAT I CAME BACK

1:47:29 HOME AND THEN I INITIATED THIS

1:47:31 INITIATIVE CALLED DETERMINED

1:47:32 DIVAS WHERE WE INCENTIVIZE

1:47:34 PEOPLE TO REGISTER TO VOTE AND

1:47:36 WE MADE A CONTEST OUT OF IT.

1:47:38 SO THE PEOPLE WHO REGISTERED

1:47:39 THE MOST GOT, YOU KNOW, GIFT

1:47:41 CARDS LIKE WE JUST TRY TO MAKE

1:47:42 IT AS FUN AS POSSIBLE.

1:47:43 BUT THE AT THE END OF THE DAY.

1:47:46 PEOPLE AREN'T.

1:47:47 VOTING BECAUSE THEY JUST

1:47:48 DON'T SEE THEMSELVES REFLECTED

1:47:50 IN THE CONVERSATION.

1:47:51 AND I THINK THAT THAT'S ALSO ON

1:47:54 THE ELECTEDS AND THE CANDIDATES

1:47:56 THAT ARE RUNNING FOR THEM TO

1:47:57 UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ALSO HAVE

1:47:59 A ROLE TO PLAY.

1:48:00 IT CAN'T JUST BE CITY

1:48:01 GOVERNMENT AND AND THE.

1:48:02 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT

1:48:03 THERE IS A ROLE FOR EVERYONE TO

1:48:05 PLAY AND GETTING PEOPLE.

1:48:06 ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THAT.

1:48:07 AND I LOOK.

1:48:08 FORWARD.

1:48:09 TO WORKING IN COLLABORATION

1:48:09 WITH YOU ALL TO DO JUST THAT.

1:48:11 THANK YOU.

1:48:14 UM THANK YOU TO THIS REALLY

1:48:15 WONDERFUL PANEL FOR YOUR

1:48:17 INSIGHTS AND FOR ALL YOU DO TO

1:48:18 UPHOLD DEMOCRACY AND TO MAKE

1:48:19 SURE DEMOCRACY IS ACCESSIBLE TO

1:48:21 THOSE.

1:48:21 WHO HAVE.

1:48:22 TOO OFTEN BEEN FORGOTTEN BY

1:48:23 OUR SYSTEMS UM, INTENTIONALLY

1:48:26 SO UH, FOLKS WHO ARE WORKING

1:48:27 CLASS TOO OFTEN OUR BLACK AND

1:48:29 BROWN VOTERS VOTERS OF COLOR

1:48:31 LIKE COUNCIL MEDIA STATED THOSE

1:48:32 WITH LOW LITERACY RATES.

1:48:34 WE WANT TO THINK ABOUT HOW

1:48:35 WE'RE BRINGING EVERYBODY INTO

1:48:37 THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND THE

1:48:39 ADVICE THAT YOU GAVE US AND THE

1:48:40 ADVICE THAT YOU'VE GIVEN TO UH

1:48:42 ,THE CITY I THINK WILL BE

1:48:43 REALLY WELL TAKEN.

1:48:44 UH, YES.

1:48:45 UM, QUESTION FOR US THAT WE CAN

1:48:46 HAVE ELECTION DAY VOTER

1:48:47 REGISTRATION SO WE KNOW THAT

1:48:49 THIS IS YOUR BEEN LIKE YOUR

1:48:50 LIFE'S WORK ESPECIALLY WITH

1:48:51 MASS VOTER TABLE.

1:48:52 SO WE APPRECIATE YOU UM, AND

1:48:54 LET US KNOW THAT WE HAVE A

1:48:56 RESOLUTION THAT I ENTERED AND

1:48:58 WE'LL BE VOTING ON GOD WILLING

1:49:00 NEXT, UH, WEDNESDAY.

1:49:02 UH, BUT WE'LL LET THIS BODY

1:49:03 KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO TO FURTHER

1:49:06 STRENGTHEN WHAT NEEDS TO BE

1:49:07 DONE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET A

1:49:08 YES.

1:49:08 UM, QUESTION FOR UM THANK YOU

1:49:11 TO TRACY AND ROSEANNE, UH, WHO

1:49:13 ARE ALSO HERE WITH US VIA

1:49:14 VIDEO.

1:49:15 WE APPRECIATE YOUR TESTIMONY.

1:49:16 UH, WE ARE NOW GOING TO

1:49:18 TRANSITION TO THE

1:49:18 ADMINISTRATION PANEL SO YOU ALL

1:49:20 ARE RELIEVED, BUT FEEL FREE TO

1:49:21 STICK AROUND AND HEAR.

1:49:23 FROM.

1:49:23 THE ADMINISTRATION.

1:49:24 UH, LET ME TURN TO CENTER STAFF

1:49:26 TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED

1:49:27 UP FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY.

1:49:29 AND WE.

1:49:30 DON'T HAVE WE WE HAVE ONE

1:49:31 PERSON HERE.

1:49:32 FOR PUBLIC TESTIMONY OR

1:49:33 DURING THE TRANSITION.

1:49:34 ALAN.

1:49:34 UH, I I KNOW HIS NAME SO HE CAN

1:49:36 ALAN TANNER, IF YOU COULD

1:49:38 PLEASE COME UP TO THE MIC.

1:49:39 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

1:49:41 PLEASE IDENTIFY YOUR.

1:49:42 NAME WHERE.

1:49:43 YOU'RE FROM AND YOU HAVE TWO

1:49:44 MINUTES FOR TESTIMONY.

1:49:45 CERTAINLY.

1:49:46 GIVE ME JUST ONE MOMENT.

1:49:49 OKAY.

1:49:49 THANK YOU.

1:49:59 PERFECT.

1:50:09 HELLO.

1:50:10 UM, MY NAME IS ALAN TANNER.

1:50:13 UM, AND I AM HERE TESTIFYING IN

1:50:16 FAVOR OF I BELIEVE IT'S STUCK

1:50:17 AT NUMBER 1805.

1:50:21 OKAY.

1:50:22 UH, GOOD MORNING.

1:50:23 MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON CITY

1:50:26 COUNCIL AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT

1:50:27 IN THIS CHAMBER TODAY.

1:50:29 I TESTIFY TODAY AS A FORMER

1:50:32 VOTER ENGAGEMENT ORGANIZER AND

1:50:34 ACTIVELY ENGAGED RESIDENT

1:50:35 OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

1:50:37 I STAND IN FAVOR OF SAME DAY

1:50:38 VOTER REGISTRATION AS I BELIEVE

1:50:41 THIS IS A CRITICAL TOOL IN THE

1:50:44 TOOLBOX TO INCREASE VOTER

1:50:45 TURNOUT IN OUR ELECTIONS BY

1:50:48 ELIMINATING THE BUREAUCRATIC

1:50:49 HURDLE OF REGISTRATION

1:50:51 DEADLINES, THEREBY CREATING A

1:50:53 MORE ACCESSIBLE ELECTION

1:50:55 SYSTEM.

1:50:55 THIS ALSO ALLOWS BUSY

1:50:57 PROFESSIONALS WHO DO NOT HAVE

1:51:01 UM TIME.

1:51:02 TO DUE TO THE ONE.

1:51:03 SESSION UM TO FILL OUT LOTS

1:51:05 OF PAPERWORK TO SEND THINGS

1:51:07 BACK UM OR STRUGGLE TO REMEMBER

1:51:10 DEADLINES OR ELECTIONS BECAUSE

1:51:11 THEY HAVE MANY OTHER DEADLINES

1:51:13 OR OTHER MATTERS THEY ARE

1:51:15 KEEPING IN THEIR HEAD ALSO THIS

1:51:17 OPENS THE DOOR FOR THOSE WHO

1:51:18 MAY CHANGE THEIR MIND AT THE

1:51:20 LAST MINUTE ABOUT WHETHER THEY

1:51:22 WANT TO VOTE OR NOT.

1:51:23 AND FOR NEW VOTERS THAT ARE

1:51:25 UNFAMILIAR WITH THE SYSTEM NOW

1:51:27 THIS IS ONE LESS CHALLENGE THEY

1:51:29 WILL NEED TO FACE.

1:51:30 I BELIEVE THAT THIS MEASURE

1:51:32 SHOULD PASS IF WE TRULY WANT

1:51:34 MORE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

1:51:36 AND A MORE ACCESSIBLE ELECTION

1:51:38 SYSTEM AN ELECTION SYSTEM THAT

1:51:41 IS INVITING TO NOT DISSUASIVE

1:51:43 WITH A DEADLINE AFTER DEADLINE

1:51:45 .

1:51:45 I ALSO BELIEVE THAT INCREASING

1:51:47 VOTER TURNOUT IS HELPFUL TO

1:51:49 CANDIDATES FOR ANY OFFICE

1:51:50 BECAUSE IT INCREASES THE NUMBER

1:51:52 OF VOTERS THAT WILL ACTUALLY BE

1:51:53 VOTING, THEREBY CREATING THE

1:51:56 AFOREMENTIONED MORE

1:51:56 REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.

1:51:58 THIS MEASURE WOULD ALSO HELP

1:51:59 THE BUSY MOTHER WHO HAS TO GET

1:52:01 HER KIDS OFF TO SCHOOL AND GET

1:52:03 HERSELF TO WORK BEFORE NEEDING

1:52:05 TO BE HOME BEFORE THE KIDS GET

1:52:07 HOME AND START PREPARING DINNER

1:52:09 UM, LEAVING LITTLE TIME FOR

1:52:11 VOTING ON SUCH A BUSY DAY.

1:52:13 THIS ACT HAS GREAT POTENTIAL

1:52:15 AND SHOULD PASS THIS BODY

1:52:16 FAVORABLY.

1:52:18 UM YEAH I HAVE TOO MUCH MORE TO

1:52:21 GO SO I WILL HAVE WHAT I HAVE

1:52:23 MORE LIKE.

1:52:24 A LOT MORE TO GO.

1:52:25 SO I'LL GIVE YOU ANOTHER TWO

1:52:27 MINUTES.

1:52:27 UH, JUST BECAUSE YOU SINCE

1:52:28 YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON HAVE FOR

1:52:29 PUBLIC TESTIMONY BUT THEN WE WE

1:52:30 WILL TURN TO SO YOU CAN

1:52:31 CONTINUE.

1:52:32 THANK YOU.

1:52:32 MORE MINUTES.

1:52:33 ALL RIGHT.

1:52:33 THANK YOU.

1:52:34 I ALSO BELIEVE THAT BY

1:52:36 INCREASING VOTER TURNOUT THIS

1:52:39 IS HELPFUL TO CANDIDATES FOR

1:52:40 ANY OFFICE BECAUSE IT INCREASES

1:52:41 THE NUMBER OF VOTERS THAT WILL

1:52:44 ACTUALLY BE VOTING, THEREBY

1:52:46 CREATING THE AFOREMENTIONED

1:52:47 MORE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.

1:52:48 THIS MEASURE WOULD OH, I

1:52:50 ALREADY WENT THROUGH THAT TO

1:52:51 ADDRESS THE OPPOSITION ON THIS

1:52:53 BALLOT MEASURE AND THE

1:52:55 MASSACHUSETTS UM WHO IS THE

1:52:57 MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN PARTY

1:52:58 .

1:52:59 UM, THESE ARGUMENTS MADE ABOUT

1:53:01 ELECTION SECURITY ARE THE SAME

1:53:03 TYPE OF ARGUMENT SEEN WHEN THE

1:53:05 CURRENT FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION

1:53:07 TRIED TO ELIMINATE OR DISSUADE

1:53:08 MAIL IN VOTING DUE TO SO-CALLED

1:53:11 SECURITY CONCERNS.

1:53:12 THIS RHETORIC ONLY UNDERMINES

1:53:14 OUR DEMOCRACY AND

1:53:16 DISENFRANCHIZES VOTERS.

1:53:17 THIS DOES NOT LEAVE ROOM FOR

1:53:19 PEOPLE WHO DO NOT FIT UM INTO

1:53:23 THE CATEGORY OF FRAUD OR

1:53:25 GENERALLY TRYING TO TAKE PART

1:53:27 IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

1:53:29 IF YOU WOULD REVIEW YOUR RED

1:53:31 BOOKLET ISSUED BY THE SECRETARY

1:53:32 OF THE COMMONWEALTH

1:53:34 OF MASSACHUSETTS, YOU WOULD SEE

1:53:35 THAT THERE ARE IN FACT SECURITY

1:53:37 MEASURES IN PLACE SUCH AS

1:53:39 DOCUMENT CERTIFICATION

1:53:41 OF CLAIMED FACTS REGARDING

1:53:42 RESIDENCE FOR THOSE LOOKING TO

1:53:44 CHANGE THEIR VOTING ADDRESS ON

1:53:45 ELECTION DAY AND ALSO SWORN

1:53:47 STATEMENTS AFFIDAVITS UNDER THE

1:53:49 STRICT FELONY UM PENALTIES FOR

1:53:52 MISINFORMATION.

1:53:53 LET US PASS A QUESTION FOR AN

1:53:55 ADVANCE THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

1:53:57 .

1:53:57 LET'S STAND AGAINST THE

1:53:58 RHETORIC THAT TRIES TO TAKE

1:53:59 AWAY OPPORTUNITIES TO

1:54:01 PARTICIPATE IN OUR DEMOCRATIC

1:54:02 SYSTEM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY,

1:54:04 EVEN IN PLACES WHERE WE WOULD

1:54:06 LEAST EXPECT SUCH RHETORIC.

1:54:08 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY

1:54:09 TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER TODAY.

1:54:11 I YIELD THIS TIME.

1:54:12 THANK YOU ALLAN AND THANK YOU

1:54:13 FOR YOUR ADVOCACY.

1:54:15 UM.

1:54:15 AND.

1:54:16 I ALSO BEFORE WE TURN OVER TO

1:54:17 THIS PANEL, SOMETHING ELSE THAT

1:54:19 MENTIONED AND THAT OTHERS

1:54:20 MENTIONED IS THAT THE THE VERY

1:54:21 THE FEAR ABOUT VOTER FRAUD AND

1:54:23 HOW LOW INCIDENCES OF ANY FRAUD

1:54:26 WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

1:54:27 MASSACHUSETTS OR AROUND THE

1:54:28 COUNTRY, HOW LOW IT IS AND AS

1:54:31 YOU KNOW, SOMEONE WHO USED TO

1:54:33 FIGHT AGAINST VOTER ID LAWS

1:54:35 BECAUSE.

1:54:38 BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT THEY WERE

1:54:39 MORE OF AN INTIMIDATION AND A

1:54:40 CHILLING TACTIC THAN THEY WERE

1:54:42 ONE ABOUT VOTER FRAUD.

1:54:43 I JUST WANTED TO THANK EVERYONE

1:54:44 FOR REITERATING HOW, UM,

1:54:47 DAMAGING IT IS WHEN WE PUT THAT

1:54:48 LANGUAGE OUT INTO UM INTO OUR

1:54:51 DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

1:54:52 SO THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR

1:54:53 TESTIFYING.

1:54:53 I'M NOW GOING TO TURN IT OVER

1:54:55 TO THIS ESTEEM PANEL WHICH IS

1:54:57 OUR ADMINISTRATION PANEL.

1:54:58 WE HAVE KERRY JORDAN, NEWLY

1:55:00 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE

1:55:01 BOSTON ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT,

1:55:03 PAUL CHUNG COMMISSIONER CITY

1:55:04 RECORDS AND FORMER INTERIM

1:55:06 DIRECTOR UM AND A MAN OF MANY

1:55:09 HATS AND A MAN THAT WE ALL KNOW

1:55:12 VERY DEARLY HERE.

1:55:13 UH, SABINA PIEMONTE, HEAD

1:55:15 ASSISTANT REGISTRAR OF VOTERS,

1:55:16 BOSTON ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.

1:55:17 I'M NOW GOING TO TURN IT OVER

1:55:18 FOR YOU FOR ANY PRESENTATION.

1:55:20 UM, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:55:24 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILOR.

1:55:27 UH LOUIJEUNE.

1:55:27 UH, WE WANT TO THANK THE CHAIR

1:55:31 ,THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT,

1:55:33 COUNCILOR WEBER AND

1:55:35 COUNCILOR MCCARTHY.

1:55:35 UH, UM, AND ALL THE MEMBERS

1:55:38 OF THIS BODY.

1:55:40 I REALLY NEEDED THIS HEARING.

1:55:43 IT IS NOURISHING TO THE SOUL TO

1:55:45 HEAR SUBSTANTIVE FACTUAL

1:55:50 DISCUSSION ABOUT THE WAY THAT

1:55:52 WE DO OUR CIVIC LIFE TOGETHER.

1:55:54 AND SO I AM SO GRATEFUL TO AS

1:55:56 VOTES TO THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN

1:55:58 VOTERS, TO THE ACLU, TO LAWYERS

1:56:01 FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND TO THIS

1:56:02 BODY FOR THE KIND

1:56:05 OF CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE

1:56:06 HAVING TODAY BECAUSE TO ME IT

1:56:09 PROVES THAT WHAT WE HAVE HERE

1:56:11 IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

1:56:14 SO MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE WE

1:56:17 HAVE, UH, ELECTION COMMISSIONER

1:56:20 JANET SLOVAN HERE WITH US

1:56:21 TODAY.

1:56:22 COMMISSIONER SLOVAN, THANK YOU

1:56:24 FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

1:56:25 UH, AND THANK YOU FOR BEING

1:56:26 HERE AND TO OUR COMMISSIONERS

1:56:28 WHO COULDN'T BE HERE.

1:56:29 UM, WE HAVE OUR CHAIR ADAM

1:56:31 CEDAR, UM, UH, REPUBLICAN

1:56:33 MEMBER RACHEL KEMP AND UH,

1:56:35 REPUBLICAN MEMBER UH, ELLEN

1:56:37 ROONEY AS WELL.

1:56:38 MY DEEP THANKS TO THEM AND

1:56:41 ESPECIALLY TO UH, THE ELECTION

1:56:43 DEPARTMENT STAFF WHO ENABLED

1:56:48 79,474 VOTERS TO VOTE UH, IN

1:56:50 THE SEPTEMBER PRIMARY, WHO

1:56:53 ANSWERED ALMOST 800 PHONE CALLS

1:56:55 WITH A WAIT TIME OF LESS THAN

1:56:58 16 SECONDS.

1:56:59 UM, WHO STAFFED AND ORGANIZED

1:57:04 275 PRECINCTS ALL ACROSS THE

1:57:06 CITY.

1:57:07 I AM SO DEEPLY PROUD OF THE

1:57:09 WORK THAT WE DO EVERY DAY.

1:57:11 UM, THESE ELECTION DEPARTMENT

1:57:14 STAFF AND OUR 1700 POLL WORKERS

1:57:16 ,UM, WORK TIRELESSLY.

1:57:18 AND JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME

1:57:20 PERSPECTIVE, THE ELECTION

1:57:21 DEPARTMENT STAFF WORKED 50 DAYS

1:57:23 STRAIGHT, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:57:26 THESE ELECTIONS HAPPEN.

1:57:27 THIS IS NOT, UH, AN

1:57:29 ORGANIZATION THAT HAS A LOT

1:57:31 OF SLACK.

1:57:31 THESE ARE THE HARDEST WORKING

1:57:33 PEOPLE I KNOW.

1:57:35 SO MY GRATITUDE.

1:57:37 UH, TO ALL THE ELECTION

1:57:38 DEPARTMENT STAFF.

1:57:40 UM, AND SABINO EXEMPLIFIES THAT

1:57:42 .

1:57:42 UM, SO, UH, WITH THAT I'M

1:57:45 PLEASED TO BE HERE.

1:57:47 UM, I WAS THE INTERIM ELECTION

1:57:51 DIRECTOR.

1:57:52 UM, KERRY IS THE NEW ELECTION

1:57:54 DIRECTOR.

1:57:55 UM, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE

1:57:58 SEPTEMBER 1ST PRIMARY.

1:57:59 I WILL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THE

1:58:01 QUESTIONS.

1:58:01 UM, ABOUT OUR PREPARATIONS

1:58:03 MOVING FORWARD, I WILL DEFER

1:58:05 TO, UH, MR JORDAN AND

1:58:08 MR COMMITTEE.

1:58:09 UM, I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT

1:58:13 YES, WE DID HAVE FEDERAL

1:58:15 ELECTION MONITORS AND YES,

1:58:18 THERE ARE CHALLENGES AND VERY

1:58:20 LEGITIMATE FEARS AMONG BOTH THE

1:58:23 VOTING PUBLIC AND OUR POLL

1:58:25 WORKERS ABOUT THE STATE

1:58:28 OF FEDERAL OVERSIGHT.

1:58:29 BUT I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:58:31 THAT OUR VOTERS KNOW THAT IF

1:58:35 YOU BELIEVE BAD ACTORS ARE

1:58:37 TRYING TO DISENFRANCHIZE YOU

1:58:39 FROM VOTING, THEN NOT VOTING

1:58:42 ACCOMPLISHES THOSE ENDS.

1:58:44 SO I WOULD REQUEST THE

1:58:46 ASSISTANCE OF THIS COUNCIL.

1:58:48 I WOULD ENCOURAGE VOTERS TO

1:58:51 VOTE AND WE HAVE TWO WEEKS

1:58:53 OF EARLY VOTING STARTING

1:58:55 OCTOBER 17TH.

1:58:55 VOTE EARLY.

1:58:57 YOU CAN VOTE BY MAIL.

1:58:58 WE HAVE CITY OPERATED LOCKED

1:59:02 DROPBOXES AND THERE'S A MAP ON

1:59:03 OUR WEBSITE IN EVERY

1:59:05 NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:59:06 UM SO IF YOU DON'T TRUST THE

1:59:09 USPS WE PICK THOSE UP.

1:59:11 UM AND THEN ELECTION DAY AS

1:59:13 WELL.

1:59:14 UM, THERE'S A LOT TO TALK ABOUT

1:59:17 OPERATIONALLY AND UM, I JUST

1:59:19 WANT TO MAKE A QUICK NOTE FOR

1:59:21 THIS BODY THE BUDGET THAT WE

1:59:25 DECIDE SOON IT'S COMING UP WILL

1:59:28 BE THE BUDGET THAT TAKES US

1:59:30 THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE

1:59:32 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES IN 2028

1:59:34 .

1:59:35 AND SO AS WE TALK ABOUT

1:59:37 ELECTION PREPARATIONS AND THE

1:59:39 THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING TO

1:59:40 TRAIN POLL WORKERS TO HIRE

1:59:41 STAFF TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES,

1:59:44 WE WILL NEED YOUR HELP BECAUSE

1:59:46 WE HAVE TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS

1:59:47 NOW IN ORDER TO BE PREPARED FOR

1:59:51 2028 AS UH, FAR OFF AS THAT MAY

1:59:54 SOUND.

1:59:54 SO WITH THAT I THANK YOU AND,

1:59:57 UM, CHAIR BACK TO YOU.

1:59:59 OKAY.

2:00:00 WELL THANK YOU.

2:00:01 UM, THANK YOU TO, UH, YOU ALL

2:00:04 FOR BEING HERE.

2:00:05 I MY FIRST QUESTION IS THAT THE

2:00:07 DEPARTMENT REMAINS SUBJECT TO

2:00:09 THE SECRETARY.

2:00:10 SECRETARY GALVIN'S FEBRUARY

2:00:11 2025.

2:00:11 ORDER, ORDER!

2:00:13 UM, WHAT HAS MICHAEL SULLIVAN

2:00:16 REVIEWED OR APPROVED FOR

2:00:17 NOVEMBER?

2:00:17 WHICH REQUIREMENTS ARE FULLY

2:00:18 MET AND ARE THERE UNRESOLVED

2:00:19 FINDINGS OR CORRECTIVE ACTIONS

2:00:21 ?

2:00:21 AND, UH, WHEN WILL THE

2:00:24 SECRETARY OF STATE'S ORDER

2:00:26 TERMINATE?

2:00:28 SO WE HAVEN'T HAD THE

2:00:29 CONVERSATION WITH THE SECRETARY

2:00:30 OF THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE YET,

2:00:32 BUT THEY HAVE BEEN VERY ENGAGED

2:00:34 WITH US, UH, INCLUDING THE

2:00:36 SECRETARY'S DESIGNEE.

2:00:38 SO WE HAVE UH, RUNNING DIALOG

2:00:40 WITH UM KERRY AND I WERE AT A

2:00:42 TRAINING UM, HOSTED BY THE

2:00:44 SECRETARY'S OFFICE SAID THIS

2:00:46 WEEK LAST WEEK LAST WEEK.

2:00:48 UM AND SO WE TALK WITH THEM

2:00:50 VERY REGULARLY.

2:00:51 THEY WERE VERY INVOLVED IN

2:00:53 MEETING WITH DEPARTMENT

2:00:55 OF JUSTICE.

2:00:55 AND SO WE PLAN TO HOLD A VERY

2:00:59 SUCCESSFUL ELECTION IN NOVEMBER

2:01:02 AND THEN WE WILL REVISIT THAT

2:01:04 CONVERSATION, UH, WITH OUR

2:01:05 PARTNERS AT THE STATE.

2:01:06 THANK YOU.

2:01:07 WE LISTENED TO THE EARLIER

2:01:08 PANEL TALK ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY

2:01:09 ISSUES, TALK ABOUT SIGNAGE

2:01:10 ISSUES AFTER THE SEPTEMBER

2:01:12 PRIMARY.

2:01:13 WHAT DID THE INCIDENTS LOG SHOW

2:01:16 BY PRECINCT AND CATEGORY?

2:01:19 SO I DON'T HAVE EVERY DETAIL IN

2:01:22 FRONT OF ME BUT WE ARE

2:01:24 CERTAINLY, UH, EXCITED TO WORK

2:01:26 WITH OUR PARTNERS TO ADDRESS

2:01:28 ANY POTENTIAL ISSUES.

2:01:29 I WOULD SAY AND I THINK I'M A

2:01:31 LITTLE BIASED BUT OVERALL WE

2:01:33 HAD A VERY SMOOTH ELECTION.

2:01:36 OKAY.

2:01:37 UM WELL I GUESS I'LL ASK THE

2:01:39 QUESTION MORE DIRECTLY.

2:01:40 WE HEARD FROM THE PRIOR PANEL

2:01:41 ABOUT HOW WE CAN IMPROVE UPON

2:01:44 ACCESSIBILITY WHEN IT COMES TO

2:01:45 SIGNAGE.

2:01:46 UH, WHEN IT COMES TO

2:01:47 INFORMATION ABOUT ASSISTANCE AT

2:01:49 AT POLLING LOCATIONS, IS THAT

2:01:50 SOMETHING THAT WE'RE READY TO

2:01:51 IMPLEMENT AND DO?

2:01:54 WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO WORK

2:01:55 WITH YOU, COUNCILOR AND OTHERS

2:01:58 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL OF OUR

2:02:00 POLLING PLACES ARE ACCESSIBLE

2:02:02 AS POSSIBLE AND THAT WE IMPROVE

2:02:03 OUR SIGNAGE.

2:02:05 AND WHAT WILL WE BE DOING?

2:02:06 ARE WE DOING ANYTHING

2:02:07 DIFFERENTLY?

2:02:07 YOU KNOW YOU HEARD ABOUT THE

2:02:09 SANDWICH.

2:02:09 BOARDS WHAT ELSE WE CAN DO?

2:02:10 UH, BILLBOARDS MORE UH,

2:02:13 ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE RADIO.

2:02:14 WHAT ELSE ARE WE THINKING ABOUT

2:02:15 DOING TO INCREASE VOTER

2:02:16 ENGAGEMENT AND VOTER TURNOUT?

2:02:18 UH, KERRY JORDAN EXECUTIVE

2:02:20 DIRECTOR, ELECTION DEPARTMENT.

2:02:21 I'M JUST EXCITED TO SHARE THAT

2:02:23 THE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN

2:02:24 UNDERGOING, UM, A CREATIVE

2:02:25 REBRANDING JUST SO THAT OUR

2:02:26 MATERIALS STAND OUT A LOT MORE

2:02:28 SO THEY DO FEATURE SOME MORE

2:02:29 ORANGES THAT THEY, UM, YOU

2:02:31 KNOW, ARE ALIGNED WITH THE CITY

2:02:33 BLUES.

2:02:34 UM, SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS

2:02:35 THAT WE'RE PUTTING UP IN THE IN

2:02:36 THE DIFFERENT UM, STREET

2:02:37 FURNITURE.

2:02:38 UM, I THINK THEY'RE JUST

2:02:39 GETTING APPROVED WITHIN THESE

2:02:40 DAYS.

2:02:41 UM, BUT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO

2:02:42 MAKE SURE OUR WEBSITE IS

2:02:43 ACCURATE IS UP TO DATE.

2:02:45 UM, SO SHOUT OUT TO OUR

2:02:47 CREATIVE TEAM.

2:02:47 SHOUT OUT TO OUR UM, YOU KNOW,

2:02:49 OUR COMMUNICATIONS IAN FLOOD

2:02:51 AND ALL THE WORK THAT HE DOES

2:02:52 TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW,

2:02:53 WE'RE GETTING THE RIGHT

2:02:54 MESSAGES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.

2:02:55 WE'RE ABSORBING THE MATERIALS.

2:02:57 THE DEPARTMENT'S BEEN OPEN TO

2:02:58 ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IN MY

2:03:00 THREE WEEKS OF BEING THERE.

2:03:01 IT'S JUST BEEN A GREAT

2:03:02 OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF SEE A

2:03:04 DIFFERENT SIDE OF THIS BUILDING

2:03:05 AND HOW MANY DEPARTMENTS WITHIN

2:03:07 THIS BUILDING COME TOGETHER TO

2:03:08 MAKE SURE THAT THEY SUPPORT A

2:03:10 SUCCESSFUL ELECTION OPERATION?

2:03:11 UM, ONE OF THE WAYS WE DO THAT

2:03:13 IS WITH THE PRE-MEETING THAT

2:03:14 BRINGS IN ALL THE OPERATIONAL

2:03:15 STAKEHOLDERS BRINGS IN BRINGS

2:03:17 IN BISCHOFF WHO MAKES SURE WE

2:03:18 TALK TO THOSE FACILITY

2:03:19 DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE SURE THE

2:03:20 DOORS ARE OPEN, THE LIGHTS ARE

2:03:21 RUNG, THE HEAT'S ON, THE AREA'S

2:03:23 READY FOR UM ELECTION DAY.

2:03:25 SO I THINK THE I'M LEARNING HOW

2:03:26 PROACTIVE THIS DEPARTMENT IS.

2:03:28 UM I'M HAPPY TO DEMYSTIFY THAT.

2:03:30 IT'S A TWO DAY OPERATION FOR

2:03:32 THE WHOLE YEAR.

2:03:32 NOT TRUE.

2:03:33 THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING

2:03:35 NONSTOP CRANKING EVERY DAY I

2:03:36 COME IN FOLKS ARE HEAD DOWN

2:03:38 GETTING THE WORK DONE.

2:03:39 SO EXCITED TO JOIN THAT TEAM

2:03:40 AND UM, UPLIFT THE FEAR AND

2:03:42 SAFE ELECTIONS THAT THE CITY

2:03:43 DOES.

2:03:44 THANK YOU.

2:03:44 AND I ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

2:03:46 I SAY AND THAT I WAS HAPPY TO

2:03:47 SUPPORT IS THAT, YOU KNOW.

2:03:49 ELECTRONIC POLL BOOKS ARE NOW

2:03:50 THE NORM AT ALL OF OUR POLLING

2:03:51 LOCATIONS AND I WAS VERY

2:03:52 EXCITED AND VERY EXCITED TO SEE

2:03:53 HOW SEAMLESSLY IT'S WORKING.

2:03:54 I'M TRYING TO GET IN ONE MORE

2:03:56 QUESTION.

2:03:56 UM, IN 2024, THE ISSUE THAT WE

2:03:58 SAW UM THAT ELECTION THAT LED

2:04:00 TO BALLOT SHORTAGES, THE DOUBLE

2:04:02 SUBTRACTION IN THE BALLOT

2:04:03 FORMULA CONTRIBUTED TO THEM IS

2:04:05 IS THAT 100% OF REGISTERED

2:04:07 VOTERS REDISTRIBUTION POLICY IN

2:04:08 FORCE IN EVERY PRECINCT IN

2:04:09 EVERY BALLOT CARD THIS

2:04:11 NOVEMBER?

2:04:12 YES, SIR.

2:04:13 OKAY.

2:04:13 CAN YOU CAN YOU ELABORATE ON

2:04:15 THAT?

2:04:16 ABSOLUTELY.

2:04:17 UM, THERE'S AND I.

2:04:18 THINK SHERYL ALSO TALKED ABOUT

2:04:19 THIS TOO.

2:04:19 ARE WE MAKING SURE THAT, YOU

2:04:20 KNOW, THERE ARE NO PAGES

2:04:21 MISSING ESPECIALLY WE HAVE YOU

2:04:23 SAID THREE PAGES FOR THE VERY

2:04:25 LONG NINE BALLOT QUESTIONS.

2:04:28 ABSOLUTELY.

2:04:28 UM, AND SABINO CAN GIVE YOU

2:04:31 THE EXACT, UH, EXACT IN DETAIL

2:04:34 BUT THERE IS A QUALITY CONTROL

2:04:37 AND QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS

2:04:39 THAT IS VERY RIGOROUS HAS BEEN

2:04:40 APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY

2:04:42 OF COMMONWEALTH.

2:04:43 THERE ARE MULTIPLE SIGN OFFS AT

2:04:45 MULTIPLE STAGES UH, TO ENSURE

2:04:47 THAT WE COUNT AND WE RECOUNT

2:04:50 THE NUMBER OF BALLOTS THAT GO

2:04:51 INTO OUR BALLOT BOXES.

2:04:53 UM, SO YOU KNOW, IF UH, IN THE

2:04:57 DAYS AHEAD OF THE ELECTION, HE

2:04:59 AND HIS TEAM UH, SPENT LONG

2:05:02 HOURS, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THE

2:05:04 INVENTORY OF BALLOTS THAT WE

2:05:06 ORDERED IS THE INVENTORY

2:05:07 OF BALLOTS THAT WE RECEIVE AS

2:05:09 THE INVENTORY BALLOTS THAT WE

2:05:10 PACK.

2:05:10 UM, AND THEN THAT GOES ALL THE

2:05:12 WAY TO THE POLL WORKERS WHO,

2:05:14 UH, MAKE SURE THAT THE BALLOTS

2:05:16 ARE THERE AS WELL.

2:05:17 SO, YOU KNOW.

2:05:18 YEAH, JUST TO ADD THAT THERE IS

2:05:20 A PACKING SLIP THAT WE INCLUDE

2:05:22 THAT.

2:05:23 NOT ONLY DO WE SIGN OFF ON THE

2:05:25 COMMISSIONER SIGNS OFF ON.

2:05:26 AND THE POLL WORKERS.

2:05:27 HAVE TO SIGN OFF ON SO

2:05:29 IMMEDIATELY FIRST THING IN THE

2:05:30 MORNING IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE

2:05:32 AMOUNT THAT'S BEING ASSIGNED TO

2:05:33 THEM THEY WILL CALL US UM TO

2:05:35 IDENTIFY ANY SHORTAGES.

2:05:36 THANK YOU.

2:05:37 I HAVE A FEW ADDITIONAL

2:05:38 QUESTIONS BUT I'LL TURN IT TO

2:05:39 MY COLLEAGUES.

2:05:39 UM, COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRITTON,

2:05:41 YOU HAVE THE FLOOR IN SIX

2:05:42 MINUTES.

2:05:42 THANK YOU.

2:05:43 GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL.

2:05:43 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:05:44 AND, UM.

2:05:48 YES, UH, THANK YOU TO THE

2:05:49 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.

2:05:50 UH.

2:05:51 FOR THEIR DILIGENT ATTENTION

2:05:52 .

2:05:52 THIS IS A HUGELY IMPORTANT

2:05:54 ISSUE FOR US IN THE CITY.

2:05:56 UM, JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO.

2:05:59 UM.

2:06:00 RECENT NATIONAL REPORTING ON

2:06:01 HOW, UH, HIGHLIGHTED, UM, A

2:06:04 SUPREME COURT DECISION ALLOWING

2:06:05 STATES TO ACCESS A NEW.

2:06:07 FEDERAL VOTER VERIFICATION

2:06:08 SYSTEM THAT COMBINES

2:06:09 CITIZENSHIP, SOCIAL SECURITY

2:06:11 AND OTHER GOVERNMENT RECORDS TO

2:06:12 IDENTIFY POTENTIALLY IN AN.

2:06:15 ELIGIBLE VOTERS.

2:06:17 UM, GIVEN BOSTON'S COMMITMENT

2:06:19 TO BOTH ELECTION INTEGRITY AND

2:06:20 VOTER ACCESS, CAN THE ELECTION

2:06:22 COMMISSION EXPLAIN WHAT

2:06:24 PROCEDURES IN PLACE TO ENSURE

2:06:25 THAT VOTER REGISTRATION RECORDS

2:06:27 ARE ACCURATE AND HOW DOES THE

2:06:29 CITY PROTECT ELIGIBLE VOTERS

2:06:31 FROM BEING IMPROPERLY

2:06:33 CHALLENGED OR REMOVED FROM THE

2:06:35 VOTER ROLLS?

2:06:37 AND WHAT SAFEGUARDS EXIST TO

2:06:39 ADDRESS ERRORS THAT WHEN

2:06:41 GOVERNMENT DATABASES CONTAIN

2:06:43 INACCURATE OR UPDATED

2:06:45 INFORMATION?

2:06:46 ARE WE.

2:06:47 WE INTERSECTING WITH.

2:06:49 THAT THAT PROCESS AT ALL?

2:06:53 SO UM MOST OF OUR SYSTEMS ARE

2:06:56 CONTROLLED BY THE SECRETARY

2:06:57 OF STATE'S OFFICE.

2:06:58 UM, UH, PEOPLE REGISTER ONLINE

2:07:00 USING THEIR UM UH WEBSITE WHICH

2:07:03 GOES TO A PROCESS OF VERIFYING

2:07:06 UM VOTE RESIDENTS TO BECOME

2:07:08 VOTERS.

2:07:09 AND ONCE THEY PASS THAT

2:07:10 PROCESS, IT COMES TO OUR QUEUE

2:07:11 FOR US TO REGISTER TO VOTE.

2:07:14 SO WE COMPLY WITH THE STATE

2:07:16 REQUIREMENTS.

2:07:17 UM, SO THE VOTER REGISTRATION

2:07:20 IS PROCESS TO THE STATE UH

2:07:23 VARIES SYSTEM.

2:07:26 WE UH DO NOT IN THE ELECTION

2:07:29 DEPARTMENT USE UH THE FEDERAL

2:07:32 UH SAVES DATABASE.

2:07:34 UM SO THERE IS NO FEDERAL

2:07:36 INTERSECTION.

2:07:37 UM, AS FAR AS OUR LOCAL OFFICE

2:07:40 IS CONCERNED.

2:07:41 BECAUSE UM AND THEN.

2:07:43 ALSO THE OTHER ISSUE UM IT

2:07:45 TALKS ABOUT MANPOWER AND THE

2:07:46 GRIP TEAM THAT YOU HAVE YOU

2:07:48 SAID 1700 POLL WORKERS.

2:07:51 UM, WHAT'S THE CURRENT STATUS

2:07:53 OF RECRUITMENT FOR POLL WORKERS

2:07:54 AND ARE THERE VACANCIES THAT

2:07:56 REMAINED STILL VACANT TO BE

2:07:57 FILLED?

2:07:58 AND TAKE.

2:07:59 YOUR.

2:07:59 MOMENT TO PITCH THE JOB UH, FOR

2:08:02 WANTED POLL WORKERS?

2:08:04 ABSOLUTELY.

2:08:04 I NEED UM I THINK WE'RE

2:08:05 THAT'S ONE OF OUR NUMBER ONE

2:08:07 TASK.

2:08:07 UM, WE HAVE A TRAINING SCHEDULE

2:08:09 THAT STARTS MONDAY.

2:08:09 THE FIRST WAVE OF, UM, UM, POLL

2:08:12 WORKERS ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH

2:08:13 THAT TRAINING.

2:08:14 UM, AND I THINK WE'RE TRAINING

2:08:15 ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL NOVEMBER.

2:08:17 SO WE'RE DEFINITELY TRYING TO

2:08:17 GET AS MANY FOLKS, UM, TO STAFF

2:08:20 THE POLLS AS WE CAN.

2:08:21 UM, SO ANY EFFORTS THAT CAN

2:08:22 SUPPORT THAT CAUSE AND GET

2:08:24 FOLKS TO SIGN UP ON BOSTON

2:08:25 AMBASSADOR GOV SLASH ELECTIONS

2:08:27 WOULD BE GREAT TO FOLKS TO TO

2:08:29 SIGN.

2:08:29 UP TO.

2:08:30 AND CAN POLL WORKERS SIGN UP

2:08:31 TO.

2:08:32 WORK IN THEIR OWN DISTRICT OR

2:08:33 ARE THEY SENT TO OTHER PLACES

2:08:35 BECAUSE ONE OF THEIR IT'S AN

2:08:36 EARLY MORNING START IF YOU

2:08:38 DON'T HAVE YOUR OWN YOU KNOW,

2:08:40 WHEELS ON TRANSPORTATION WE

2:08:42 RELY ON PUBLIC TRANSIT OR

2:08:43 WHATEVER THE HOW DOES IT WORK

2:08:45 IN OTHER PARTICULAR AREAS IN

2:08:47 THE IN THE CITY WHERE YOU STILL

2:08:48 NEED MORE PEOPLE.

2:08:51 SO WE'RE WE'RE OPEN TO TRYING

2:08:53 OUR BEST TO STAFF FOLKS WHERE

2:08:54 THERE'S NEED UM TO WHERE

2:08:56 THEY'RE WHERE YOU KNOW WE'RE

2:08:58 THEY'RE CLOSE TO HOME WHEN WE

2:08:59 CAN'T GUARANTEE THAT WE'LL TRY

2:09:00 TO MOVE THEM OUT JUST AS MUCH

2:09:02 AS WE CAN BUT STILL KEEP THEM

2:09:03 CLOSE TO HOME.

2:09:04 UM, AND I KNOW YOUR DISTRICT

2:09:06 ALSO IN BRIGHTON IS ONE OF THE

2:09:08 AREAS THAT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING

2:09:09 TO TO BUILD POLL WORKERS.

2:09:11 SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THE

2:09:11 SCHOOLS IN THE AREAS UM, TO

2:09:13 MAKE SURE WE PUT THAT WORD OUT,

2:09:14 GET THAT MESSAGE OUT OKAY.

2:09:16 WE GIVE IT A PLUG.

2:09:18 UM AND HOW CAN WE AS.

2:09:19 CITY COUNCIL TO STRENGTHEN

2:09:21 ACCOUNTABILITY AROUND ELECTION

2:09:22 ADMINISTRATION WHILE.

2:09:23 MAINTAINING CONFIDENCE IN THE

2:09:25 ELECTION OUTCOMES LIKE WHAT DO

2:09:27 YOU NEED FROM US.

2:09:28 TO SUPPORT YOU TO.

2:09:30 DO YOUR VERY IMPORTANT JOB?

2:09:32 I'LL START AND THEN POINT IT

2:09:33 THIS WAY BUT UM POINTING FOLKS

2:09:35 TO BOSTON.GOV WE TRY TO PUT ALL

2:09:36 THE UM FACTUAL INFORMATION

2:09:38 THERE.

2:09:38 THE DEPARTMENT IS IS THEIR

2:09:41 MISSION IS TO DELIVER FAIR AND

2:09:43 SAFE ELECTIONS FOR EVERYONE

2:09:44 WHO'S REGISTERED AND YOU KNOW

2:09:47 WANTING TO CAST THEIR BALLOT.

2:09:49 SO POINTING FOLKS THERE WE'RE

2:09:50 TRYING TO KEEP THAT INFORMATION

2:09:51 UP TO DATE.

2:09:52 WE'RE ALSO IN THE COMMUNITY OUR

2:09:54 UM COMMISSIONERS ARE OUT MAKING

2:09:55 SURE THAT TABLING EVENTS

2:09:57 ALONGSIDE THE DEPARTMENT.

2:09:58 SO WHATEVER EFFORTS WE CAN DO

2:10:00 IN OUR IN OUR SMALL BUT MIGHTY

2:10:01 WORKFORCE, WE'RE DOING OUR BEST

2:10:02 TO.

2:10:03 YOU KNOW, PUT PEOPLE.

2:10:04 IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO

2:10:05 WHERE THE FACTS ARE AND WE GET

2:10:06 SO MUCH FROM THE STATE

2:10:07 INCLUDING THE RED BOOK.

2:10:08 UM, SO WE CHECK THAT AND WE TRY

2:10:10 TO, YOU KNOW, JUST POINT PEOPLE

2:10:12 TO WHERE THE FACTS ARE.

2:10:12 AND UM, THE OTHER THING.

2:10:14 WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT

2:10:16 ACCESSIBILITY AND SIGNAGE.

2:10:16 YOU JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT.

2:10:18 VERY OFTEN ELECTION DAY FALLS

2:10:19 ON THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE

2:10:20 MONTH, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE

2:10:22 STREET CLEANING DAY AND ALLSTON

2:10:24 BRIGHTON.

2:10:24 AND PEOPLE GET TOLD WHEN THEY

2:10:26 GO IN TO VOTE.

2:10:27 SO UM.

2:10:28 MAKE SURE THAT OWNERS

2:10:30 COMMUNICATE AND ON ELECTION DAY

2:10:32 WE WILL BE TOWING.

2:10:34 IN THE VICINITY OF A.

2:10:35 POLLING PLACE OR SOMETHING.

2:10:36 THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL AS WELL.

2:10:39 UM, I'M GOING TO RUN FOR TIME.

2:10:41 ERICA, YOU HAVE A MINUTE?

2:10:42 IF YOU HAVE A MINUTE.

2:10:43 OH, WOW.

2:10:43 THIS IS INCREDIBLE.

2:10:44 UM.

2:10:45 JUST THINKING BIG PICTURE.

2:10:46 AND HAVE YOU ANY OTHER OTHER

2:10:49 ANTICIPATED CHALLENGES FOR THE

2:10:51 UPCOMING ELECTION DAY?

2:10:52 UH.

2:10:53 TO IT'LL BE A NICE DAY, BUT

2:10:55 ABSOLUTELY.

2:10:56 THERE'S A THREE PAGE BALLOT AND

2:10:57 IT'S DOUBLE SIDED.

2:10:59 SO AS YOU KNOW, OUR CHECK-IN

2:11:01 PROCESS IS MUCH MORE EFFICIENT

2:11:02 NOW.

2:11:04 UM, THANKS TO UH, THE

2:11:06 ELECTRONIC POLL BOOKS THERE.

2:11:07 BUT IF IT TAKES 30S TO CHECK

2:11:10 IN, UM, BUT IT TAKES 30S TO

2:11:13 FEED EACH PAGE INTO THE BALLOT

2:11:15 BOX.

2:11:15 UM, WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT,

2:11:18 UH, IT WILL BE A LONGER AND

2:11:20 LENGTHIER PROCESS FOR PEOPLE TO

2:11:22 VOTE IN PERSON.

2:11:24 SO ON ELECTION NIGHT ESPECIALLY

2:11:26 SO WE REALLY ENCOURAGE UM

2:11:28 VOTERS TO VOTE EARLY UM, OR TO

2:11:31 VOTE BY MAIL.

2:11:32 AND WITH EARLY VOTING I THINK

2:11:34 WE'RE HITTING NINE

2:11:35 NEIGHBORHOODS UM FOR AN

2:11:37 ADDITIONAL WEEKS OR TWO WEEKS

2:11:39 OF EARLY VOTING.

2:11:40 UM, AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO HIT

2:11:41 AS MANY DISTRICTS AS WE CAN TO

2:11:43 MAKE SURE VOTERS WE'RE COMING

2:11:44 TO WHERE FOLKS CAN VOTE AHEAD

2:11:46 OF TIME.

2:11:46 YEAH.

2:11:47 AND REALLY ENCOURAGING PEOPLE

2:11:49 TO MAKE A PLAN EARLY VOTING

2:11:51 SCRIPT GET IT DONE.

2:11:53 UM.

2:11:53 BUT ALSO MAKE A PLAN AND IF

2:11:55 YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON ELECTION

2:11:56 DAY MAKE SURE YOU YOU KNOW,

2:11:59 HAVE A PLAN TO BE THERE IN GOOD

2:12:00 TIME AND WORK IT.

2:12:02 JUST DO IT.

2:12:04 AND READ THE QUESTIONS IN

2:12:05 ADVANCE.

2:12:06 READ THE.

2:12:06 QUESTIONS.

2:12:07 AND SO SOME OF.

2:12:08 THEM ARE INCREDIBLE.

2:12:08 THEY'RE REALLY LONG AND COMPLEX

2:12:10 .

2:12:10 SO YEAH SO THAT'S.

2:12:11 OUR HOMEWORK.

2:12:12 YEAH THANK YOU I HAVE TO GO OFF

2:12:14 TO ANOTHER MEETING BUT THANK

2:12:15 YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE AND UH

2:12:17 THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.

2:12:18 THANK YOU COUNCIL.

2:12:19 THANK YOU.

2:12:19 THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT

2:12:20 BREADON AND THANK YOU TO THESE

2:12:22 QUESTIONS.

2:12:23 I WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUT OUT

2:12:24 TO ED SHOEMAKER HERE FROM

2:12:25 RANGERS, BOSTON RANGERS

2:12:26 MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON RANGERS

2:12:29 BOSTON.

2:12:29 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

2:12:31 WITH US.

2:12:31 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES

2:12:32 COUNCIL HERE YOU HAVE THE FLOOR

2:12:33 AND SIX MINUTES.

2:12:35 6 OR 7.

2:12:36 WE HAD SEVEN THE FIRST TIME

2:12:38 575 AND NOW SIX.

2:12:39 BUT IF.

2:12:39 YOU NEED MORE.

2:12:40 YOU'RE THE ONLY COUNSELOR.

2:12:41 YOU CAN BE HERE UNTIL TOMORROW.

2:12:44 HOW ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND?

2:12:46 WOW.

2:12:49 OKAY.

2:12:49 UM.

2:12:50 SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL.

2:12:51 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

2:12:53 AND CONGRATULATIONS, KERRY.

2:12:56 UM, GIVEN YOUR.

2:12:57 I.T WORK, UH, I AM GOING TO

2:13:01 ASSUME THAT YOU'RE GOING TO

2:13:02 BRING A LOT OF THAT ENERGY IN

2:13:03 TERMS OF MODERATE MODERATE

2:13:05 SEATING THE, UH, ELECTORAL

2:13:09 PROCESS.

2:13:09 SO LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL YOUR

2:13:11 CREATIVITY IN THAT SPACE.

2:13:12 UM, AGAIN, SABINA, IT'S ALWAYS

2:13:14 GREAT TO SEE YOU AND, UM,

2:13:17 WELCOME BACK.

2:13:17 IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU,

2:13:18 COMMISSIONER.

2:13:19 SO REALLY QUICK I'M GOING TO

2:13:20 START WITH SABINO.

2:13:21 SABINO, HOW LONG.

2:13:22 HAVE YOU BEEN HERE?

2:13:23 TOO LONG.

2:13:25 HOW MANY?

2:13:26 NO SUCH THING.

2:13:28 UM 34 YEARS.

2:13:30 34 YEARS AND OVER.

2:13:32 YOUR OVER THE LAST YOU KNOW

2:13:35 DECADES THAT YOU'VE BEEN HERE.

2:13:38 CAN YOU TALK TO US ABOUT A TIME

2:13:40 WHEN YOU FELT LIKE THE

2:13:42 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT.

2:13:43 HAD IT RIGHT.

2:13:44 AND THERE WEREN'T.

2:13:45 A LOT OF HICCUPS?

2:13:47 CAN YOU NAME THAT ERA?

2:13:52 I FEEL THAT WAY BEFORE EVERY

2:13:53 ELECTION.

2:13:54 UM.

2:13:55 WE TRY TO MAKE IT RIGHT AND

2:13:57 DEAL WITH THE ISSUES THAT ARISE

2:13:58 ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION AS

2:14:00 THEY COME TO US.

2:14:01 BUT WE TRY TO PREPARE UM FOR

2:14:03 EVERY ELECTION TO BE RIGHT.

2:14:06 ALL RIGHT.

2:14:06 AND SO LET ME ASK THAT

2:14:07 DIFFERENTLY IN THE LAST FEW

2:14:09 ELECTION CYCLES IN THE LAST YOU

2:14:11 KNOW, DECADES WHICH DECADE

2:14:14 WOULD YOU SAY I WILL NEVER WANT

2:14:16 TO REPEAT THIS AGAIN.

2:14:17 WAS THERE A TIME IN YOUR IN

2:14:20 YOUR.

2:14:22 JOB EXPERIENCE WHERE YOU LIKE

2:14:27 OH I'M NEVER AGAIN?

2:14:32 NO UM EVERY ELECTION IS A

2:14:35 DIFFERENT CHALLENGE.

2:14:35 MHM.

2:14:36 UM AND I ENJOY COMING TO

2:14:38 WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY TO TRY TO

2:14:40 DEAL WITH THE CHALLENGES.

2:14:42 UM EVERY ELECTION IS DIFFERENT

2:14:44 AS YOU CAN SEE THIS IS THE

2:14:45 FIRST TIME I'M DOING AN

2:14:46 ELECTION WITH THREE BALLOT SO

2:14:48 IT'S A CHALLENGE UNTO ITSELF.

2:14:50 UM, BUT NO, THERE'S I ENJOY

2:14:54 COMING TO WORK.

2:14:54 EVERY DAY.

2:14:55 I'M SORRY.

2:14:55 CAN I JUST SAY.

2:14:56 FIRST I'M DOING AN ELECTION

2:14:57 WITH.

2:14:58 THREE CARD BALLOT.

2:15:00 OKAY.

2:15:00 ALL RIGHT, SO YOU KNOW, SEE, I

2:15:02 WAS TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, LINE

2:15:03 YOU UP SO THAT YOU COULD ASK

2:15:05 FOR MORE MONEY BUT YOU DIDN'T

2:15:07 GO THERE.

2:15:08 SO THAT'S WHY I KNOW.

2:15:10 BUT I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD NAME

2:15:11 SOME THINGS THAT I COULD BE

2:15:13 LIKE ALL RIGHT, BUT YOU DIDN'T.

2:15:15 IT'S ALL GOOD.

2:15:16 SO NOW LET ME ASK THE QUESTION

2:15:18 YOU HAD MENTIONED UM

2:15:19 COMMISSIONER THAT UM IN 2028

2:15:22 EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE GOING.

2:15:23 TO HAVE TO DO TO.

2:15:24 PREPARE FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL

2:15:25 ELECTIONS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO

2:15:26 LOOK TO THIS BODY TO HELP

2:15:27 SUPPORT AND I'M GLAD THAT

2:15:29 YOU'RE ASKING NOW BECAUSE

2:15:30 THERE'S ALSO REDISTRICTING

2:15:31 THAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN

2:15:33 2030.

2:15:33 THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING ALL AT

2:15:34 THE SAME TIME.

2:15:35 AND SO I'M CURIOUS.

2:15:38 IN ORDER FOR.

2:15:39 THE TEAM AND KERRY PLEASE

2:15:41 EVERYONE CAN ANSWER THIS

2:15:42 QUESTION WHAT SHOULD WHAT WHAT

2:15:45 WOULD A HEALTHY BUDGET LOOK

2:15:46 LIKE SO THAT YOU CAN EXECUTE

2:15:49 AGAINST THOSE DELIVERABLES?

2:15:50 WHAT DO YOU NEED?

2:15:53 RIGHT NOW WE'RE FOCUSED ON THE

2:15:55 NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

2:15:58 WE OF COURSE WILL BE DEVELOPING

2:15:59 A FULL BUDGET PROPOSAL AND WILL

2:16:01 BE IN CONVERSATION WITH YOU

2:16:04 EARLY.

2:16:04 I THINK SOME OF THE THINGS THAT

2:16:05 WE WOULD LOOK TOWARDS, UM, ARE

2:16:08 TRAINING, OUTREACH SIGNAGE,

2:16:11 LANGUAGE ACCESS, ACCESSIBILITY

2:16:13 .

2:16:14 UM AND SO WE WILL WORK WITH THE

2:16:16 ADMINISTRATION, UM, AND THE

2:16:18 COUNSELORS HERE TO MAKE SURE

2:16:19 THAT WE PUT A SUBSTANTIVE

2:16:21 PROPOSAL IN FRONT OF YOU.

2:16:22 YEAH, THAT THAT THAT WOULD BE

2:16:24 GREAT.

2:16:24 I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO GET

2:16:27 AHEAD OF THESE CONVERSATIONS.

2:16:28 SO I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT

2:16:29 YOU'RE ALREADY PLANTING THOSE

2:16:31 SEEDS AND GETTING US TO START

2:16:32 THINKING ABOUT HOW WE BUILD

2:16:33 CAPACITY BECAUSE I ALWAYS

2:16:34 BELIEVE WE CAN DO THIS ALL WE

2:16:36 WANT.

2:16:37 BUT IF ON THIS SIDE OF THE

2:16:38 AISLE IF WE'RE NOT PROVIDING

2:16:39 YOU ALL WITH THE RESOURCES THAT

2:16:41 YOU NEED, IT'S JUST A WHOLE

2:16:42 BUNCH OF JUST POLITICAL

2:16:43 THEATER.

2:16:44 WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS

2:16:45 HAPPEN.

2:16:46 BUT WHAT DID YOU DO TO ADVOCATE

2:16:48 FOR THE FUNDS SO THAT THIS

2:16:49 DEPARTMENT CAN ACTUALLY BE

2:16:50 FULLY FUNCTIONING?

2:16:51 AND SO.

2:16:51 I THINK THAT IT'S REALLY

2:16:52 IMPORTANT FOR US TO REALLY BE

2:16:54 MINDFUL OF THE ROLE THAT WE

2:16:55 PLAY IN SUPPORTING YOU ALL IN

2:16:57 THAT UM I SEE I'M.

2:17:00 YOU CAN GO I'M NOT GOING TO

2:17:01 STOP YOU.

2:17:02 SO UM.

2:17:04 I AM CURIOUS THOUGH IN TERMS

2:17:05 OF HOW THE DEPARTMENT

2:17:08 INTERFACES WITH OTHER

2:17:09 DEPARTMENTS.

2:17:09 I'M THINKING ABOUT VHA.

2:17:11 I'M THINKING ABOUT THE BOSTON

2:17:12 PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION, THE

2:17:14 BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS KIND

2:17:15 OF HOW DO YOU SEE THAT

2:17:17 COORDINATION THE OFFICE

2:17:18 OF DIRECT UM ORGANIZING AND

2:17:20 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY

2:17:23 UM ENGAGEMENT WHAT WHAT ROLE.

2:17:26 DO YOU ALL PLAY IN INTERFACING

2:17:28 WITH THOSE OTHER DEPARTMENTS?

2:17:29 I'VE HAD THE GIFT OF BEING

2:17:30 HERE GOING ON 20 YEARS AND I

2:17:32 FEEL LIKE ALONG THE WAY I'VE

2:17:34 JUST BEEN GATHERING PEOPLE

2:17:35 RIGHT?

2:17:36 I'VE BEEN A, UH A PERSON OF THE

2:17:37 PEOPLE.

2:17:38 SO ALONG THE JOURNEY I KEEP

2:17:40 MEETING MORE PEOPLE WHO

2:17:41 STRENGTHEN THE WORK THAT I GET

2:17:42 TO DO.

2:17:43 UM, AND IT'S EVEN MORE NOW UM,

2:17:45 I THINK WE HAVE AN AMAZING

2:17:46 TEAM.

2:17:46 THE FOLKS THAT I'VE INHERITED

2:17:48 TO WORK WITH REVIEW THE DATA.

2:17:50 THEY'RE DIVING DEEP AND WE'RE

2:17:51 MAKING DECISIONS BASED OFF

2:17:52 OF THAT.

2:17:53 SO THAT'S THAT'S PART OF IT.

2:17:54 UM, BUT THE FOLKS WE WORK WITH

2:17:56 ALSO HAVE A LOT OF HISTORY LIKE

2:17:57 ME AND THEY HAVE A LOT

2:17:58 OF CONNECTIONS AND WE'RE NOT

2:17:59 AFRAID TO TO ASK FOR THOSE

2:18:01 FAVORS AND GET ON FOLKS RADARS

2:18:03 EARLY.

2:18:03 SO WE'RE NOT SURPRISING THEM AT

2:18:05 THE LAST MINUTE WHEN THESE ARE

2:18:06 REQUESTS.

2:18:07 UM, THIS THIS TEAM UM, HOSTED A

2:18:09 TABLETOP EXERCISE UM, IN

2:18:11 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SECRETARY

2:18:12 OF THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE.

2:18:13 UM, AND THAT WAS JUST A GREAT

2:18:14 OPPORTUNITY FOR ME EVEN FROM DO

2:18:16 IT TO BE IN THE ROOM AND KIND

2:18:18 OF WORK THROUGH SCENARIOS WITH

2:18:19 OFFICE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

2:18:20 LIKE FOLKS I PROBABLY NEVER

2:18:21 WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF HAD A

2:18:23 PART TO PLAY IN UM IN THE

2:18:25 ELECTIONS PROCESS.

2:18:25 UM, BUT THEN HEARING THIS IS

2:18:27 SOMETHING THAT CAN ACTUALLY

2:18:28 HAPPEN.

2:18:28 WHAT WOULD THE CITY DO?

2:18:30 WHO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CALL THE

2:18:31 SHOTS AND THE FOLKS WHO ARE UM

2:18:33 THE FACILITY FACILITATORS

2:18:35 CALLED US OUT TO MAKE SURE WE

2:18:36 YOU KNOW, WE HAD THAT WE COULD

2:18:37 IDENTIFY WHO IN THE ROOM WAS

2:18:39 THE PERSON ACTUALLY AND SEND

2:18:40 OUT AN EMAIL ON BEHALF OF THE

2:18:42 ADMINISTRATION.

2:18:43 SO UM, EXERCISES LIKE THAT WE

2:18:44 WE WE EXPECT TO CONTINUE TO DO

2:18:47 AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

2:18:48 KEEPING THAT ROLODEX ROLLING TO

2:18:49 TO REOPEN THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

2:18:50 SO YOU KNOW, I I LOVE THAT

2:18:51 AND I ALWAYS I ALWAYS SAY THAT,

2:18:52 YOU KNOW.

2:18:53 ,WE'RE RESOURCE RICH POOR

2:18:55 COORDINATION POOR AND I THINK

2:18:56 THAT.

2:18:56 THAT IS AN AREA.

2:18:58 OF OPPORTUNITY TO KIND

2:18:59 OF STRENGTHEN MORE THE

2:19:00 COMMUNICATION FLOW THAT COMES

2:19:02 OUT LIKE I THINK ABOUT THE

2:19:03 BOSTON PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSION

2:19:04 AND SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY

2:19:05 HEALTH CENTERS THEY DO INTAKES

2:19:07 WHERE YOU KNOW, DO YOU FEEL

2:19:08 SAFE AT HOME THAT THERE'S LOTS

2:19:10 OF THINGS THAT YOU GET ASKED?

2:19:11 THERE COULD BE ANOTHER QUESTION

2:19:12 THAT YOU ASK ARE YOU REGISTERED

2:19:14 TO VOTE?

2:19:14 I MEAN THERE'S SO MANY LOW

2:19:15 HANGING FRUIT AND WAYS THAT WE

2:19:18 CAN REALLY STRENGTHEN CIVIC

2:19:19 ENGAGEMENT AND MAKE IT THAT

2:19:20 MAKE THAT.

2:19:21 PART OF OUR.

2:19:22 EVERYDAY CONVERSATION.

2:19:23 THERE'S UM THERE'S SHELTERS UM

2:19:27 GOODWILL.

2:19:28 CAREER CENTERS.

2:19:29 WHERE IF YOU'RE LOOKING.

2:19:30 FOR.

2:19:31 POLL WORKERS I KNOW THAT UM IF

2:19:33 YOU ARE TRANSITIONING OUT

2:19:34 OF DTA YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME

2:19:35 SORT OF UH WORK OR TRYING TO DO

2:19:38 SOMETHING.

2:19:39 SO THERE'S WAYS FOR YOU ALL TO

2:19:41 LIKE TAP INTO SOME OF THE

2:19:43 SHELTERS, UH, WORKING WITH

2:19:46 GOODWILL EVEN IF IT'S JUST FOR

2:19:48 A TEMPORARY UH, SCENARIO.

2:19:50 UH, I THINK THAT THOSE ARE

2:19:52 REALLY GOOD SPACES AND PLACES

2:19:53 FOR OUTREACH AND AS WELL AS,

2:19:56 UM, BARBERSHOPS AND HAIR SALONS

2:19:57 THAT'S LIKE THE GOLDMINE WHEN

2:19:59 YOU'RE GETTING YOUR HAIR DONE.

2:20:00 LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S ELECTION

2:20:02 DAY, YOU MAY BE PUTTING UP SOME

2:20:04 SIGNAGE IN SOME OF THESE SPACES

2:20:05 AND PLACES.

2:20:06 I KNOW ALL THAT TAKES TIME

2:20:07 MONEY IN ENERGY BUT I DO THINK

2:20:10 THAT THE MORE INTENTIONAL WE

2:20:11 ARE ABOUT THE OUTREACH, UM, THE

2:20:14 MORE ENTHUSIASTIC PEOPLE WILL

2:20:16 BE ABOUT GOING OUT TO VOTE

2:20:17 BECAUSE EVERYWHERE THEY GO

2:20:18 PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT AND

2:20:19 I THINK THAT'S THE LEVEL

2:20:21 OF LIKE ENGAGEMENT THAT I'D

2:20:22 LIKE TO SEE HERE IN BOSTON.

2:20:24 AND I THINK WE ALL PLAY A ROLE

2:20:26 IN HELPING THAT HAPPEN.

2:20:28 AND.

2:20:30 MY TIME RIGHT NOW.

2:20:32 COUNSELOR, IF ANYTHING.

2:20:33 ELSE.

2:20:34 I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT

2:20:35 VERY QUICKLY THAT THERE IS UH,

2:20:38 NO ONE BETTER TO WORK WITH THAN

2:20:39 KERRY JORDAN.

2:20:41 UM, SO I THINK HE WILL BE A

2:20:43 FANTASTIC PARTNER.

2:20:43 WE HAD 20 DEPARTMENTS SHOW UP

2:20:46 TO OUR UM, TABLETOP EXERCISE TO

2:20:49 PLAN AND COORDINATE.

2:20:50 UM AND ALSO WE RECENTLY ADDED

2:20:54 NATALIA BENITEZ PEREZ WHO IS

2:20:55 OUR FORMER DIRECTOR OF CIVIC

2:20:58 ORGANIZING TO OUR STAFF.

2:20:59 AND SO WE WANT TO BE ENGAGED

2:21:03 AND MAKE SURE THAT UM, WE ARE

2:21:05 WORKING CLOSELY WITH AS MANY

2:21:07 PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN THE

2:21:08 COMMUNITY TO MAKE OUR ELECTIONS

2:21:09 A SUCCESS.

2:21:10 YEAH.

2:21:10 AND AND I'M CURIOUS YOU KNOW

2:21:14 WHAT I HAVE SEEN HERE.

2:21:16 IN MY TIME AND I'M LEARNING A

2:21:18 LOT AS I GO.

2:21:19 IS THAT YOU WERE REALLY GOOD

2:21:21 AT.

2:21:21 SAYING ALL OF THE BAD.

2:21:23 THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

2:21:24 WE'RE GOOD AT THAT.

2:21:26 UM, BUT THIS WOULD.

2:21:27 BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO.

2:21:28 TALK ABOUT ALL OF THE AMAZING

2:21:29 THINGS THAT YOU I KNOW YOU

2:21:30 WROTE YOU YOU KNOW, LISTED LOTS

2:21:32 OF REALLY GREAT NUMBERS BUT

2:21:34 WHAT WOULD YOU WANT PEOPLE TO

2:21:35 KNOW ABOUT THE.

2:21:36 ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT AND THE

2:21:38 STAFF THAT.

2:21:39 WORKS.

2:21:39 THERE.

2:21:40 NOT JUST YOUR.

2:21:40 OUTPUTS AND THE THINGS THAT YOU

2:21:41 DO BUT JUST.

2:21:42 LIKE REAL STUFF.

2:21:43 I MEAN THOSE.

2:21:43 ARE REAL.

2:21:44 THINGS BUT LIKE WHAT DO YOU

2:21:45 WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT.

2:21:46 YOUR TEAM?

2:21:46 I'LL START IN JUST SAY THE

2:21:48 PASSION.

2:21:49 IT'S LIKE WORKING WITH THE

2:21:51 COUNCIL TO START AND SEEING THE

2:21:52 PASSION THAT YOU GUYS PUT INTO

2:21:53 THE WORK THAT YOU DO, BUT THEN

2:21:54 JUST GOING THROUGH THE LAYERS

2:21:55 AND LEVELS OF THIS BUILDING AND

2:21:56 ALSO SEEING THAT REFLECTED BACK

2:21:57 OUT UM THE TRAINING TEAM, THE

2:22:00 POLL WORKER RECRUITMENT TEAM

2:22:01 LIKE EVERY INDIVIDUAL THAT I'VE

2:22:03 HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK

2:22:04 WITH ON ON THE SECOND FLOOR IN

2:22:06 AT THE WAREHOUSE LIKE IT'S A

2:22:07 IT'S A HUGE OPERATION THAT YOU

2:22:09 JUST CAN'T APPRECIATE UNTIL YOU

2:22:10 SEE IT REAL TIME.

2:22:11 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

2:22:12 NOVEMBER.

2:22:13 BUT THE WAY THE TEAM ROLLS UP

2:22:14 THEIR SLEEVES AND WORK TOGETHER

2:22:16 AND HIGH FIVES ON EACH OTHER

2:22:17 IT'S REALLY AMAZING TO BE PART

2:22:19 OF.

2:22:20 SABINA, WOULD YOU LIKE.

2:22:21 TO.

2:22:21 THANK?

2:22:22 I'D LIKE TO JUST ADD THAT

2:22:23 ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT

2:22:25 WE REACH OUT TO FOR ASSISTANCE

2:22:27 FOR HELP ON EARLY VOTING DAYS,

2:22:30 OUR TEAM CAN'T DO IT ON OUR

2:22:32 OWN.

2:22:33 UM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, BOSTON

2:22:34 POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE FIRE

2:22:36 CADETS UM EVERYTHING AND

2:22:39 ANYTHING THAT THOSE CADETS DO

2:22:41 TO HELP DELIVER ABSENTEE

2:22:42 BALLOTS ON ELECTION DAY UM

2:22:44 POLICE CADETS TO HELP THE

2:22:46 POLICE OFFICERS COMING BACK

2:22:47 HERE ON ELECTION NIGHT TO HELP

2:22:50 UM THE BOXES BE REMOVED OUT

2:22:52 OF VEHICLES.

2:22:52 THERE'S SO MANY MOVING PIECES.

2:22:54 THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE THAT DO

2:22:55 HELP US AND WE JUST CAN'T DO IT

2:22:57 ON EVERYONE AND WE APPRECIATE

2:22:58 THAT.

2:22:59 YEAH.

2:23:00 AND I ALSO JUST WANT TO

2:23:01 THANK YOUR ENTIRE TEAM I LOVE

2:23:02 GOING DOWN THERE AND.

2:23:03 BE LIKE HEY HOW Y'ALL DOING

2:23:05 ?

2:23:05 UM AND IT IS DEFINITELY OFTEN.

2:23:07 TIMES WHEN THERE'S SO MUCH.

2:23:09 UM IN THE NEWS AND JUST PEOPLE

2:23:11 ALWAYS TARGETING.

2:23:13 US UM IT IS.

2:23:14 IT CAN BE SOMETIMES

2:23:16 DEMORALIZING.

2:23:17 UM, SO JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:23:18 HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE I SPEAK

2:23:20 FOR MYSELF AND I KNOW

2:23:21 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, UM, THAT

2:23:23 WE DEEPLY CARE AND ARE VERY

2:23:25 GRATEFUL FOR THE AMOUNT OF TIME

2:23:27 AND ENERGY THAT YOU ALL PUT TO

2:23:28 MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE

2:23:29 ACCESS.

2:23:30 AND I THINK THAT MY COLLEAGUES

2:23:31 THAT ARE NOT HERE TODAY UM,

2:23:33 HOPEFULLY THEY'LL WATCH THIS

2:23:34 AND REALIZE THE IMPORTANT WORK

2:23:37 THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING AND

2:23:38 SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN RIGHT?

2:23:40 UM AND IT'S ALL GOOD TO FOLLOW

2:23:43 A HEARING ORDER OR AN EMERGENCY

2:23:44 THIS THAT OR THE.

2:23:45 OTHER BUT AT.

2:23:46 THE END OF THE DAY THE REAL

2:23:47 WORK HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIGHT FOR

2:23:49 THOSE DOLLARS THAT HELP SUPPORT

2:23:50 YOU AND DOING YOUR JOB BETTER.

2:23:52 AND THAT IS WHAT WHAT WE SHOULD

2:23:55 BE REALLY MEASURING PEOPLE'S

2:23:56 RHETORIC.

2:23:57 ON.

2:23:57 IS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY FIGHT

2:23:59 FOR TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE

2:24:00 THINGS DON'T HAPPEN AGAIN.

2:24:01 AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT

2:24:02 I'M GOING TO START PAYING

2:24:03 ATTENTION TO AS WE CONTINUE TO

2:24:05 HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS.

2:24:06 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

2:24:08 THANK YOU MEJIA.

2:24:09 AND I WANT TO ECHO HOW JUST

2:24:12 YOUR THE ELECTIONS WHERE I'M A

2:24:13 REALLY IS ONE OF ONE.

2:24:14 AND HOW HARD EVERYONE WORKS.

2:24:16 WHICH IS WHY I WAS YOU KNOW IT

2:24:17 WAS REALLY UNFORTUNATE THAT THE

2:24:19 PEOPLE BECAUSE PEOPLE ONLY PAY

2:24:20 ATTENTION OR THE CAMERAS ONLY

2:24:22 COME WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS

2:24:24 AND UH, WE NEVER WANT THERE TO

2:24:27 BE BALLOT SHORTAGES.

2:24:27 WE NEVER WANT SOMEONE TO BE TO.

2:24:29 CALL AND NOT GET THROUGH.

2:24:31 BUT WE KNOW THAT MORE OFTEN

2:24:33 THAN NOT.

2:24:34 WHEN PEOPLE ARE CALLING THEY

2:24:35 ARE GOING THROUGH IN THAT

2:24:36 BALLOT.

2:24:36 MORE OFTEN THAN NOT BALLOT

2:24:37 PEOPLE ARE GETTING THE BALLOTS

2:24:38 THAT.

2:24:38 THEY NEED.

2:24:38 BUT JUST.

2:24:40 UM TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF THAT.

2:24:42 HOW ARE WE ENSURING THAT.

2:24:44 UH ONE OF THE ISSUES WAS THAT.

2:24:46 PEOPLE COULDN'T REACH CITY HALL

2:24:47 ?

2:24:47 SO WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO ENSURE.

2:24:49 THAT WHENEVER THERE'S A

2:24:49 POLL.

2:24:50 WORKER OR ANYBODY OUT IN

2:24:51 COMMUNITY OR AT A POLLING

2:24:52 LOCATION WHEN THEY NEED IT,

2:24:53 WHAT WHAT ARE THE COMMUNICATION

2:24:54 CHAINS NOT.

2:24:55 TO MAKE SURE THAT CITY.

2:24:56 HALL IS ALWAYS A SPECIAL.

2:24:57 ON ELECTION DAY ACCESSIBLE.

2:25:00 CAREY HELPED MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

2:25:01 SO I THINK.

2:25:02 YEAH I THINK WE HAVE A SECRET

2:25:04 CHEAT CODE WITH WITH THE

2:25:05 FRIENDS UP DO IT.

2:25:06 YOU KNOW, UM THE WAY THAT THEY

2:25:08 COME TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:25:09 THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGIES KIND

2:25:10 OF SET UP IN PLACE AND THEN THE

2:25:12 AGAIN CALLING ON OUR FRIENDS

2:25:13 HERE IN THE BUILDING WHO

2:25:14 STAFFED THESE CALL CENTERS AND

2:25:16 YOU KNOW, TAPPING IN 311 AND

2:25:18 AND JUST IT'S A REALLY HUGE

2:25:21 OPERATION YOU KNOW AND IT GETS

2:25:23 UNDER APPRECIATED BUT BEING

2:25:24 ABLE TO WORK IN ADVANCE TO

2:25:26 PROCESS THE FEEDBACK LOOK AT

2:25:27 SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT THAT WE

2:25:29 IDENTIFIED IN THE COOKBOOKS AND

2:25:30 THEN ADJUST OUR TRAININGS

2:25:31 ACCORDINGLY TO MAKE SURE THAT,

2:25:32 YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T HAVE TO

2:25:34 CALL IN FIRST PLACE BUT THEN

2:25:35 UTILIZING THE TECHNOLOGY TO,

2:25:37 YOU KNOW, SEND OUT THE

2:25:38 COMMUNICATION ALERTS TO MAKE

2:25:39 SURE WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON

2:25:40 IN.

2:25:40 REAL TIME.

2:25:41 SPEAKING OF AND THESE ARE

2:25:42 JUST SOME RAPID FRY SOME

2:25:43 QUESTIONS THAT I.

2:25:43 HAVE THAT.

2:25:44 UH WHAT ARE SOME UH.

2:25:46 UH WE LOVE THAT I'LL TRY AND

2:25:48 POP UP.

2:25:48 SOME AND SAY THAT AGAIN.

2:25:49 BUT WHAT IS THE BACK UP IN

2:25:50 CASE.

2:25:50 YOU KNOW.

2:25:52 WI-FI GOES OUT OR IN CASE

2:25:53 THERE'S SOME OTHER.

2:25:56 UM OR.

2:25:58 KNOCK ON WOOD.

2:26:00 UM, SO WE STILL RELY ON THE

2:26:02 PAPER COPIES TO MAKE SURE THAT

2:26:03 WE HAVE WITH A REDUNDANCY PLAN

2:26:05 .

2:26:05 UM, YOU KNOW, THE POP UPS HAVE

2:26:07 BEEN GREAT.

2:26:08 WE CONTINUE TO EVALUATE THEM,

2:26:09 WE CAN SEE ENERGY LEVEL.

2:26:11 WE CAN SEE SO MANY THINGS WITH

2:26:12 THOSE DEVICES.

2:26:12 SO I THINK THAT AND THEN ON TOP

2:26:14 OF THAT I BELIEVE THE ROVING

2:26:15 TEAM WHO CIRCLE IN THE

2:26:17 COMMUNITY ON ELECTION DAY HAS

2:26:19 BACKUP SO WE CAN WE CAN ADDRESS

2:26:21 THEM AS THEY HAPPEN.

2:26:22 UM, SO WE'VE LEARNED A LOT

2:26:24 OF LESSONS OVER THE YEARS, YOU

2:26:26 KNOW, AND THEY SHOULDN'T BE

2:26:27 UNDERSTATED.

2:26:28 I THINK THAT SOME OF THE THINGS

2:26:29 THAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST ARE

2:26:30 THINGS THAT THE PAST WE

2:26:31 CONTINUE TO LEARN FROM THEM AND

2:26:32 GROW FROM THEM AND UM, ENGAGE

2:26:34 THE COMMUNITY IN THE RIGHT WAY

2:26:35 SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, MAKE

2:26:36 A BETTER EXPERIENCE FOR ALL.

2:26:37 OKAY.

2:26:38 MICHAEL SULLIVAN CONTINUES

2:26:39 TO BE THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S

2:26:40 DESIGNEE.

2:26:41 CORRECT.

2:26:42 THANKS.

2:26:42 YEAH.

2:26:43 UM.

2:26:44 AND HAS THERE BEEN ANY

2:26:46 COMMUNICATION RECENTLY ABOUT

2:26:47 ANYTHING.

2:26:48 PERTINENT THAT THE BODY SHOULD

2:26:50 BE AWARE OF OR.

2:26:51 OR DO WE FEEL LIKE THAT THERE

2:26:52 IS THAT THIS WILL BE THE LAST

2:26:53 ELECTION WHERE WE SORT OF.

2:26:54 HAVE THAT.

2:26:55 DESIGNEE RELATIONSHIP WITH

2:26:56 THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S

2:26:57 OFFICE.

2:26:58 SO AS THE COMMISSIONER

2:26:59 MENTIONED, JUST JUST OUR

2:27:01 PARTICIPATION IN THE YOU KNOW,

2:27:02 IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S

2:27:03 HOSTED EVENTS, THE UH

2:27:06 CONFERENCE THAT WE ATTENDED

2:27:07 LAST WEEK UM IT'S JUST ONE

2:27:08 OF THOSE THINGS THAT SHOWS

2:27:09 THAT, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF THEY GO

2:27:10 AWAY, WE'RE STILL TRYING TO

2:27:11 MAKE SURE WE'RE MAKING THE

2:27:13 RIGHT RELATIONSHIP SO THAT AS

2:27:14 THINGS ARISE, YOU KNOW, THEY

2:27:15 CAN REACH OUT AND CONTACT US.

2:27:17 WE HAVEN'T HAD THE CONVERSATION

2:27:18 AS FAR AS MOVING FORWARD

2:27:19 BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HIT THAT

2:27:20 DEADLINE JUST YET.

2:27:21 WHAT IS THE DEADLINE.

2:27:22 THE END OF THE YEAR?

2:27:24 OKAY.

2:27:25 SO YOU KNOW AT THE AT THAT TIME

2:27:27 WE'LL HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS

2:27:28 HOPEFULLY WE'VE WE'VE DONE ALL

2:27:29 THAT'S NECESSARY BUT WE'LL

2:27:30 CONTINUE TO CAPTURE THAT

2:27:31 FEEDBACK AND LEARN FROM THE

2:27:32 NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES AND SET

2:27:34 UP THE RIGHT UM, PROTOCOLS THAT

2:27:35 CONTINUE TO ENFORCE THE WORK

2:27:37 THAT WE.

2:27:38 ALREADY DO.

2:27:38 OKAY.

2:27:39 UM DO.

2:27:40 THE ELECTIONS.

2:27:40 GROUP REVIEW DAVID KING'S 2027

2:27:44 BLUEPRINT?

2:27:44 YES THEY DID.

2:27:45 AND WITH THE 2025 REQUEST FOR

2:27:47 THE.

2:27:48 FIRM'S CONTRACT AND.

2:27:49 COMPARABLE CITY WORK.

2:27:50 ANSWERED I'M SORRY.

2:27:54 THERE WAS UH I THINK THERE WERE

2:27:56 A REQUEST FROM 2025.

2:27:57 FOR THE FIRM'S CONTRACT AND

2:27:59 COMPARABLE CITY WORK.

2:28:01 OH, UM, I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH

2:28:03 YOU AFTERWARDS, COUNSELOR.

2:28:04 OKAY.

2:28:04 MAKE SURE WE SEND MATERIALS.

2:28:06 ALL RIGHT.

2:28:06 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:28:07 THOSE ARE.

2:28:08 I THINK THE MAIN QUESTIONS.

2:28:10 THAT, UM, I HAVE ON MY.

2:28:12 END.

2:28:13 I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU.

2:28:14 OH.

2:28:15 COUNCILMEMBER HERE COMES TO

2:28:16 MEJIA HAS ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS.

2:28:17 I WAS WAITING FOR.

2:28:18 YES OKAY.

2:28:18 SECOND ROUND JUST.

2:28:20 OKAY OKAY.

2:28:21 I JUST HAD.

2:28:23 UM.

2:28:24 THREE QUESTIONS.

2:28:25 OKAY.

2:28:26 UM, CAN YOU JUST PLEASE DISCUSS

2:28:27 HOW YOU DISTRIBUTE MULTILINGUAL

2:28:29 BALLOTS, UM, TO EACH POLLING

2:28:30 LOCATION?

2:28:31 LIKE HOW DO YOU DETERMINE YOU

2:28:32 KNOW HOW MANY AND WHICH SITES

2:28:34 GET WHICH LANGUAGES I'M GOING

2:28:36 TO ASSUME THAT'S LIKE DEPENDING

2:28:37 ON THE LANGUAGES SPOKEN ROLLS

2:28:39 RIGHT.

2:28:40 THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT THERE.

2:28:43 SO THERE IS UM THERE IS A

2:28:46 FEDERAL REQUIREMENT UM FOR

2:28:51 VIETNAMESE UM AND CHINESE THERE

2:28:54 IS A FORMULA THAT WE USED BASED

2:28:56 ON SURNAMES.

2:28:56 THAT'S WHAT'S PRESCRIBED BY THE

2:28:58 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

2:28:59 UM, BUT WE PROVIDE UH LANGUAGES

2:29:04 UM, BASED ON THAT FORMULA.

2:29:07 UM, THERE IS I THINK WHEN WE

2:29:11 GOT CALLS FROM OUR POLL WORKERS

2:29:13 ON ELECTION DAY THIS PAST

2:29:15 SEPTEMBER THEY SAID UH, SOME

2:29:17 OF THE WORDING SAID WELL, THE

2:29:20 FEDERAL MONITORS ARE HERE AND

2:29:21 WE WERE SO PROUD OF OUR

2:29:23 LANGUAGE ACCESS BECAUSE MORE

2:29:25 THAN JUST PROVIDING THE

2:29:27 LANGUAGE IN THOSE UH, THE

2:29:29 BALLOTS IN THOSE LANGUAGES WE

2:29:31 HAVE INTERPRETERS ON HAND, WE

2:29:33 HAVE OUR AUTOMATIC MACHINES AND

2:29:35 SO WE GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THE

2:29:37 REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCESSIBILITY

2:29:38 AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO MAKE

2:29:40 EFFORTS THERE.

2:29:41 GREAT.

2:29:41 UM, AND YOU KNOW, POLICE

2:29:44 ARE.

2:29:44 OFTEN SEEN AT POLLING SITES AND

2:29:47 UM AND WHICH WHICH YOU KNOW,

2:29:49 ONE WE BELIEVE THAT REQUIRES

2:29:52 EXTRA OFFICERS TO BE ON DUTY

2:29:54 THAT DAY AND.

2:29:55 LIKELY REQUIRE MORE OVERTIME.

2:29:57 AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE ON A BUDGET

2:29:58 .

2:29:59 UM, SO I'M JUST CURIOUS, UM,

2:30:01 COULD INDIVIDUALS LIKE CIVILIAN

2:30:03 FLAGGERS.

2:30:04 OR OTHERS PLAY THIS ROLE

2:30:06 INSTEAD?

2:30:09 WE'LL TAKE IT UNDER

2:30:11 CONSIDERATION.

2:30:11 I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH TO SAY YES.

2:30:13 I BELIEVE THERE'S CERTAIN LIKE

2:30:14 CHAIN OF CUSTODY PIECES THAT

2:30:16 MIGHT MIGHT REQUIRE IT BUT I

2:30:19 COULD TURN TO HE.

2:30:20 MAY HAVE, UH.

2:30:20 I BELIEVE THE CITY ORDINANCE

2:30:22 REQUIRES A BOSTON POLICE

2:30:23 OFFICER TO BE STATIONED AT THE

2:30:25 CHECKOUT TABLE TO MONITOR THE

2:30:28 CHECKOUT LIST.

2:30:29 SO MAYBE WE COULD UPDATE THE

2:30:31 ORDINANCE AND AMEND IT SO THAT

2:30:33 WE CAN REFLECT THAT MAYBE I.

2:30:36 DON'T KNOW.

2:30:36 MAYBE THE.

2:30:37 LEGAL EAGLES CAN ADVISE US, UM

2:30:39 ,ACCORDINGLY BUT WHO KNOWS?

2:30:41 I JUST THINK THAT THE MORE

2:30:42 PATHWAYS.

2:30:43 THAT WE CAN CREATE FOR, UM,

2:30:46 STRENGTHENING OPPORTUNITIES.

2:30:47 FOR OTHER FOLKS.

2:30:49 WILL BE GREAT.

2:30:50 UM.

2:30:50 I DON'T KNOW.

2:30:51 THAT SOMETHING WORTH LOOKING

2:30:52 INTO.

2:30:53 UM, AND.

2:30:54 THEN WHAT LOGISTICAL.

2:30:55 AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES DOES

2:30:56 THE ELECTION DEPARTMENT

2:30:58 STRUGGLE WITH THE MOST?

2:31:00 UM.

2:31:01 AND THEN I'M JUST.

2:31:02 CURIOUS CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN

2:31:04 CENTRAL TABULATION AND WHY THE

2:31:06 CITY DOES IT THE WAY THAT IT

2:31:08 DOES, ESPECIALLY WITH.

2:31:09 THE WAY IT POSTS.

2:31:11 UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS

2:31:13 ONLINE?

2:31:13 JUST IF YOU CAN HELP

2:31:15 ME UNDERSTAND THAT A.

2:31:16 LITTLE BIT.

2:31:17 SO THAT'S A THAT'S A.

2:31:18 BIG TWO PARTER.

2:31:20 UM I WILL ADDRESS THE THE FIRST

2:31:21 PART HERE UM IN TERMS

2:31:24 OF LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES UM

2:31:26 HIRING WE AIM FOR 2000 POLL

2:31:29 WORKERS AND WE UM HAVE TO PLACE

2:31:32 THEM AND TRAIN THEM ALL ACROSS

2:31:34 THE CITY.

2:31:35 SO THAT IS ALWAYS AN ONGOING

2:31:38 CHALLENGE.

2:31:38 UM, ONE THING I WOULD POINT OUT

2:31:40 IS THAT SHOULD WE ASK THE POLL

2:31:43 WORKERS TO DO MORE, SHOULD WE

2:31:45 WANT TO IMPLEMENT NEW TRAINING?

2:31:47 UH, THEN WE HAVE TO SCHEDULE

2:31:49 ANOTHER TRAINING SESSION FOR

2:31:52 2000 PEOPLE AND IT'S PAID SO

2:31:54 THERE'S A $20 FOR A TRAINING

2:31:57 ACROSS 2000 PEOPLE.

2:31:59 ON THE $20.

2:32:01 THAT'S IT.

2:32:02 WELL, THERE'S A STIPEND FOR

2:32:03 WORKING ON ELECTION DAY AND

2:32:05 THEN YOU GET PAID PER TRAINING

2:32:07 BUT IT NO NO ONE DOES IT.

2:32:09 $20 $30.

2:32:11 EXCUSE ME.

2:32:12 HOW LONG IS THE TRAINING?

2:32:14 TWO AND A HALF TO THREE HOURS.

2:32:18 MAYBE OKAY.

2:32:19 I WOULD INCREASE THAT MAYBE TO

2:32:21 $50 OR SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW

2:32:23 COME.

2:32:23 SEE YOU FOR THE.

2:32:24 NEXT BUT I'M GOING TO LISTEN

2:32:25 Y'ALL LIKE I KNOW FOR ME I'M

2:32:26 ALWAYS ON A BUDGET.

2:32:27 COME IN $20 $30 AND COME ALL

2:32:30 THE WAY DOWN TO CITY HALL.

2:32:31 IS IT VIRTUAL?

2:32:31 YOU GOT TO BE IN.

2:32:32 YOUR IN PERSON TWO THAT'S

2:32:33 PARKING YOU HAVE.

2:32:34 TO PAY FOR.

2:32:34 THERE'S A LOT OF BARRIERS.

2:32:36 THAT WE'RE PUTTING ON TO PEOPLE

2:32:38 PARTICIPATING HERE.

2:32:38 SO I.

2:32:39 LISTEN I'M NOT TRYING TO

2:32:40 CHANGE EVERYTHING BUT I THINK

2:32:41 THERE IS SOME WORTH.

2:32:43 US MAYBE Y'ALL CAN DO IT IN THE

2:32:46 DISTRICTS AND MAYBE Y'ALL COULD

2:32:49 BE THE ONES TO GO TO WHERE THE

2:32:50 PEOPLE.

2:32:50 ARE AT, UM.

2:32:52 AND TRAIN THEM THERE, MAYBE DO

2:32:54 REGIONAL TRAININGS AND FOR

2:32:57 PIZZA.

2:32:59 NO I'M SERIOUS.

2:33:01 I I THINK THAT WOULD BE A BIG.

2:33:02 DRAW.

2:33:04 I KNOW I WOULD SHOW UP, I'M

2:33:05 GETTING FED AND I DON'T HAVE TO

2:33:07 GET ON THE TRAIN TO COME TO

2:33:08 CITY HALL.

2:33:09 FOR 2.5 HOURS.

2:33:11 I THINK WE SHOULD CHANGE THE

2:33:12 WAY Y'ALL DO THAT.

2:33:13 I'M GONNA PUT AN ORDINANCE FOR

2:33:15 THAT.

2:33:15 AS WELL.

2:33:16 HOW YOU FEEL.

2:33:16 ABOUT THAT?

2:33:17 SO WE'LL UM.

2:33:19 NOW ALL JOKES ASIDE, I REALLY.

2:33:20 DO.

2:33:21 BELIEVE AS SOMEONE WHO'S.

2:33:22 ALL ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT

2:33:23 PEOPLE PARTICIPATE NOT JUST IN

2:33:25 ELECTORAL POLITICS BUT JUST IN

2:33:27 THEIR OWN.

2:33:27 LIVES.

2:33:28 I THINK THAT THE MORE THAT

2:33:29 WE CAN DO TO MAKE IT EASIER

2:33:31 FOR.

2:33:31 FOLKS.

2:33:32 YOU CAN DO THE TRAINING

2:33:33 VIRTUALLY OBVIOUSLY NOT BECAUSE

2:33:34 YOU HAVE TO SEE THE MACHINES OR

2:33:37 .

2:33:37 YOU KNOW, WE DO SOME TRAININGS

2:33:39 VIRTUALLY OKAY.

2:33:41 AND SO YES WE DO AND IT DEPENDS

2:33:45 ON WHETHER YOU'RE A NEW OR

2:33:46 RETURNING POLL WORKER, WHETHER

2:33:48 OR NOT YOU'VE USED THE

2:33:49 EQUIPMENT BEFORE.

2:33:51 UM WE DO HAVE UH VIRTUAL

2:33:54 OPTIONS I WOULD SAY IN TERMS

2:33:56 OF THE WAY THAT WE DO CENTRAL

2:33:58 TAB THAT'S GOVERNED BY STATE

2:34:00 LAW AND SO THAT YOU KNOW,

2:34:02 THAT'S REALLY THE DRIVING FORCE

2:34:04 BEHIND THE WAY THAT WE RUN THE

2:34:06 CENTRAL TAB.

2:34:07 UM, IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

2:34:10 AND OPEN TO OBSERVERS.

2:34:12 SO YOU KNOW, I THINK UH THIS

2:34:13 PAST SEPTEMBER'S MEETS WOULD BE

2:34:15 YOU KNOW, THE ELECTION STAFF

2:34:17 AND UM, UH A HUGE NUMBER

2:34:20 OF ATTORNEYS FROM CAMPAIGNS AND

2:34:22 THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE

2:34:23 AND OTHERWISE BUT BECAUSE IT'S

2:34:25 SO PUBLIC UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE

2:34:28 TO DO IT EXACTLY THE WAY THE

2:34:29 STATE LAW SAYS.

2:34:30 AND UH, GO.

2:34:31 AHEAD AND JUST ADD ONE OTHER

2:34:32 BARRIER THAT WE DO HAVE.

2:34:33 YEAH.

2:34:34 AND IT WAS DISCUSSED IN THE

2:34:35 PREVIOUS PANEL IS THE CENSUS.

2:34:37 UM, UH WE TALK A LOT ABOUT

2:34:39 VOTERS AND VOTERS COMING OUT TO

2:34:40 VOTE BUT PEOPLE NEED TO RESPOND

2:34:42 TO THE CENSUS.

2:34:42 THAT IS A HUGE BARRIER THAT WE

2:34:44 HAVE EVERY YEAR.

2:34:45 YEAH.

2:34:46 YEAH THAT'S.

2:34:47 YEAH UH YEAH I.

2:34:49 AGREE UH I'LL JUST.

2:34:51 UM SAY ONE LAST THING IS.

2:34:52 THAT IN.

2:34:53 REGARDS I.

2:34:54 KNOW I WAS JOKINGLY MAKING

2:34:56 REFERENCE TO UM GETTING FOLKS

2:34:59 MORE ENGAGED.

2:35:00 I THINK THAT SOME OF THE POLL

2:35:01 WORKERS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN

2:35:02 TRAINED COULD TAKE ON SOME MORE

2:35:04 LEADERSHIP ROLE.

2:35:05 UM, AND YOU CAN CREATE LIKE A

2:35:07 LITTLE PIPELINE AND MAYBE THEY

2:35:09 COULD HELP DO SOME OF THE

2:35:11 TRAININGS.

2:35:12 HAVE YOU BEEN IN OUR MEETINGS,

2:35:13 COUNSELOR?

2:35:15 NO I'M NOT.

2:35:16 DOING THAT NOW.

2:35:17 Y'ALL Y'ALL DOING THAT NOW.

2:35:18 YES THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE WHAT

2:35:20 THAT DOES IS THAT GIVES.

2:35:21 THEM SOME LEADERSHIP

2:35:23 DEVELOPMENT AND ALSO THEY CAN

2:35:26 DO IT IN THEIR.

2:35:27 OWN UM DISTRICT AND THEY COULD

2:35:30 .

2:35:30 HOST THE TRAINING AND LEAD IT

2:35:32 AND THAT COULD BE LESS UM

2:35:35 ANOTHER WAY TO REMOVE THE

2:35:36 BARRIERS SO YOU KNOW, JUST MORE

2:35:39 THINGS THAT YOU.

2:35:39 CAN ASK.

2:35:40 FOR.

2:35:40 MORE MONEY.

2:35:41 IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET TO.

2:35:42 MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN.

2:35:44 UM BUT YEAH I'M NOT GOING TO

2:35:45 GIVE YOU ALL MORE THINGS AND.

2:35:46 THEN I.

2:35:47 NOT YOU KNOW, BUT.

2:35:48 IF.

2:35:48 YOU IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT I

2:35:49 CAN.

2:35:49 DO TO BE HELPFUL, PLEASE.

2:35:50 KNOW THAT.

2:35:51 I'M HERE FOR ALL OF IT AND

2:35:52 THANK YOU, THANK.

2:35:53 YOU.

2:35:54 THANK YOU.

2:35:55 COUNCILOR MEJIA.

2:35:55 THE ONE THING THAT I WILL SAY

2:35:57 AND SORRY WE.

2:35:58 HAVE ENTERED THE PART OF THE

2:35:59 CHAT.

2:35:59 WHERE IT'S LIKE YOU'RE JUST

2:36:00 ASKING QUESTIONS BUT

2:36:02 COUNCILMAN HE DID MENTION AND I

2:36:03 THINK I SAW YOU DO IT.

2:36:04 CARRY LIKE MORE VISUALS.

2:36:07 UM, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE

2:36:09 REALLY HELPFUL.

2:36:09 I SAW YOU.

2:36:10 DO A REALLY GREAT VISUAL WHEN

2:36:11 IT CAME TO.

2:36:12 ELECTION DAY.

2:36:13 I WAS EARLY VOTING.

2:36:14 YOU KNOW WE NEED TO MAKE SURE

2:36:15 WE ARE POPPING UP EARLY VOTING

2:36:17 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

2:36:18 UM.

2:36:19 BUT I.

2:36:19 THINK THAT THAT.

2:36:20 WOULD BE MORE HELPFUL.

2:36:21 YOU KNOW, AND WE SAID TEND

2:36:22 TO RELY HEAVILY ON SOCIAL MEDIA

2:36:25 BUT ALSO NOT EVERYONE IS SOCIAL

2:36:26 .

2:36:27 MEDIA IS ON SOCIAL.

2:36:28 MEDIA SO WE ACTUALLY CAN'T

2:36:29 THINK THAT WE'RE.

2:36:29 DOING THE.

2:36:30 JOB JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT'S.

2:36:31 HAPPENING ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

2:36:33 SO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO THINK

2:36:34 ABOUT OTHER WAYS, UM, TO UH

2:36:37 CONNECT.

2:36:37 WITH PEOPLE.

2:36:38 I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU,

2:36:39 SABINO.

2:36:40 YOU WERE MY CHIEF OF STAFF,

2:36:41 EMILY'S FIRST CITY HALL

2:36:43 EMPLOYEE EVER THAT SHE MET AND.

2:36:45 UM, UH.

2:36:46 SHE JUST WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER

2:36:48 YOU GIVING JUST SUCH A GREAT

2:36:50 IMPRESSION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO

2:36:52 WORK FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON.

2:36:53 YET SHE DIDN'T WORK FOR THE

2:36:54 CITY OF BOSTON WHEN SHE FIRST

2:36:55 MET YOU AND SHE'S NOW BEEN

2:36:56 HERE.

2:36:57 SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHE'S

2:36:58 IMPRINTED ON OUR MINDS.

2:36:59 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING A GREAT

2:37:01 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY, UM

2:37:02 ,AND OF CARING SO DEEPLY ABOUT

2:37:03 OUR ELECTIONS AND MAKING SURE

2:37:05 THAT THEY RUN AS THEY SHOULD.

2:37:07 COUNCILOR, WE, UM, HAVE PUT OUT

2:37:10 BILLBOARDS UM, AS KERRY

2:37:13 MENTIONED.

2:37:13 UM, AND WE ARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

2:37:15 BUT UH, SHOULD THERE BE EVENTS,

2:37:18 UM, THAT YOU THINK IT'S

2:37:19 APPROPRIATE FOR THE DEPARTMENT

2:37:20 TO TALK NONPARTISAN ABOUT, UH,

2:37:23 THE ELECTION?

2:37:24 UH, PLEASE, UH, DO LET US KNOW

2:37:27 WHERE AVAILABLE TO YOU AND

2:37:29 WOULD LOVE TO ENGAGE WITH THE

2:37:30 COMMUNITY.

2:37:30 YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE

2:37:31 GREAT.

2:37:32 ESPECIALLY AT OUR SCHOOLS

2:37:33 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE TALKING

2:37:34 ABOUT PRE-REGISTRATION AT THE

2:37:35 AGE OF 1617.

2:37:36 SO YEAH, I WOULD DEFINITELY

2:37:37 THINK ABOUT THAT AND I KNOW MY

2:37:38 COLLEAGUES WILL.

2:37:39 AS WELL THINK ABOUT HOW TO

2:37:40 INTEGRATE WE I SEE YOU I DO.

2:37:42 SEE THE DEPARTMENT OUT.

2:37:43 IN COMMUNITY.

2:37:44 UM WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT

2:37:45 BETTER WAYS OF LIKE INTEGRATING

2:37:47 THAT MAKE CENTERING YOU MORE SO

2:37:48 YEAH THANK YOU.

2:37:49 WE WILL COMMISSION WE WILL TAKE

2:37:51 THAT INTO UNDER ADVISEMENT.

2:37:52 COUNSELOR LOUIJEUNE I JUST DO

2:37:55 WANT TO MENTION THAT WE DO UM,

2:37:57 STUDENT REGISTRATIONS IN ALL

2:37:58 THE HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS THE

2:37:59 CITY USUALLY STARTING IN THE

2:38:01 MONTH OF JANUARY LEADING UP

2:38:03 UNTIL GRADUATION DAY.

2:38:05 UM, COMMISSIONER ROONEY LEADS

2:38:07 THAT EFFORT AND SHE GATHERS

2:38:09 MANY, MANY REGISTRATIONS FROM

2:38:11 PRE REGISTRANTS UP UNTIL UM,

2:38:14 STUDENTS THAT CAN VOTE UP IN

2:38:16 THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS.

2:38:17 SO WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE

2:38:18 ACTUALLY LIKE AS THE ELECTION

2:38:20 DEPARTMENT.

2:38:20 GOING INTO.

2:38:21 SCHOOLS AND THEIR TABLES

2:38:22 WITH REGISTRATION DRIVES.

2:38:24 YES WE WE MEET WITH THE LEADERS

2:38:25 OF THE SCHOOLS.

2:38:26 THEY INFORM THE PARENTS OF THE

2:38:29 STUDENTS THAT THIS IS HAPPENING

2:38:30 SO THAT THEY HAVE THE PROPER

2:38:31 MATERIALS LIKE THE PREVIOUS

2:38:33 PANELISTS SAID, THEY DON'T HAVE

2:38:34 THE LAST DIGITS OF THEIR SOCIAL

2:38:36 THEY DON'T HAVE AN I.D..

2:38:37 THEY'RE READY.

2:38:38 TO GO AND THEY'RE READY TO

2:38:39 SIGN UP THE DAY THAT WE ARE

2:38:40 THERE TO HAVE THESE EVENTS UM,

2:38:43 CERTAIN SCHOOLS OBVIOUSLY HAVE

2:38:44 A BIGGER TURNOUT AND MORE

2:38:47 PARTICIPATION THAN OTHER

2:38:48 STUDENTS BECAUSE OF THEIR

2:38:50 POPULATION, BUT THEY ALL

2:38:52 WELCOME US UM, UH, THROUGHOUT

2:38:54 THE YEAR TO TO TO REGISTER

2:38:56 FOLKS.

2:38:56 NOT ONLY ARE WE DOING THAT BUT

2:38:58 WE ALSO HAVE A STUDENT POLL

2:38:59 WORKER PROGRAM.

2:39:00 WE HAVE POLL.

2:39:01 WORKERS STUDENTS IN.

2:39:04 TO BECOME.

2:39:05 POLL WORKERS FOR THE STATE

2:39:08 ELECTION.

2:39:09 UM THE I BELIEVE LAST ELECTION

2:39:11 UM LAST NOVEMBER WE HAD CLOSE

2:39:14 TO 75 POLL WORKERS THAT WERE

2:39:15 STUDENTS.

2:39:16 IT'S A PAID POSITION.

2:39:18 UH, THEY COULD WORK HALF THE

2:39:19 DAY IF THEY'RE UNDER UNDER 18,

2:39:22 BUT IF THEY ARE 18 OR OVER THEY

2:39:24 CAN WILL WORK THE FULL DAY WITH

2:39:26 PROPER UM.

2:39:28 UM UM.

2:39:29 SO WHAT I WANT TO USE UM.

2:39:31 FOR PARENTAL.

2:39:32 UH, PARENTAL UH, AGREEMENT AND

2:39:34 SCHOOL UM ADVISEMENT FROM THAT

2:39:36 SO THAT SYSTEM IS ALREADY IN

2:39:38 PLACE AND WE HAVE BEEN.

2:39:39 DOING THAT FOR AND AND TO BE

2:39:40 YOU KNOW, JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY

2:39:44 I WHAT PORTION PROPORTION

2:39:46 OF OUR ELECTION DEPARTMENT

2:39:48 STAFF ARE FORMER STUDENT POLL

2:39:50 WORKERS?

2:39:52 UM THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION

2:39:53 BECAUSE SOME OF OUR OUR PART

2:39:55 TIME STAFF, OUR STUDENT POLL

2:39:57 WORKERS THAT ARE WILLING TO

2:39:58 COME IN AND HELP DURING

2:40:00 ELECTIONS DURING OUR CENSUS

2:40:02 SEASON.

2:40:02 UM.

2:40:03 AND ARE WILLING TO DO MORE

2:40:05 UM TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS

2:40:07 .

2:40:07 SO WE HAVE BEEN IN THE

2:40:08 COMMUNITY TO TRY TO DO THIS AND

2:40:10 WILL CONTINUE TO DO THIS MOVING

2:40:11 FORWARD.

2:40:12 THANK YOU.

2:40:13 I ALSO ENCOURAGE YOU I MEAN I

2:40:14 DON'T KNOW IF IT'S YOU OR IF

2:40:15 IT'S THE SCHOOLS TO MAKE SURE

2:40:15 THAT THEY'RE WORKING WITH LIKE

2:40:16 THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT BODY OR

2:40:17 WHATEVER.

2:40:19 SO WHATEVER THE NAME IS.

2:40:21 UM I THINK THAT'S CALLED

2:40:22 DIFFERENT THINGS IN DIFFERENT

2:40:23 SCHOOLS.

2:40:23 BUT IT'S A COLLABORATION WITH

2:40:26 US IN THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT TO

2:40:27 DO THIS TOGETHER.

2:40:28 AND SO I JUST HOPE THAT LIKE

2:40:29 THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.

2:40:30 IS NOT IT'S NOT JUST AN

2:40:31 ADULT RUN THING THAT THEY'RE

2:40:32 ALSO LIKE ENGAGING THE.

2:40:33 STUDENTS WHO WOULD.

2:40:34 BE MOST.

2:40:35 INCLINED TO LEAD ON THIS AS

2:40:36 WELL.

2:40:37 SO AWESOME.

2:40:37 WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:40:40 TO THIS PANEL.

2:40:41 WE REALLY.

2:40:42 UM RESPECT THE WORK THAT YOU

2:40:43 DO.

2:40:43 UH THERE ARE.

2:40:44 ALWAYS GROWING PAINS AND

2:40:45 CHANGES AND SOMETIMES UH WE

2:40:47 TAKE LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AS

2:40:48 WHAT THEY ARE TO IMPROVE.

2:40:50 SO REALLY GRATEFUL FOR YOU.

2:40:51 UM, I KNOW WE DIDN'T TALK.

2:40:53 ABOUT.

2:40:53 IT, BUT I KNOW THAT THIS IS AN

2:40:54 ELECTION DEPARTMENT THAT WOULD

2:40:55 BE READY.

2:40:55 TO IMPLEMENT.

2:40:56 ELECTION DAY VOTER REGISTRATION

2:40:58 SHOULD IT BE PLACED ON THE

2:41:00 BALLOT AND IMPLEMENTED FOR 2028

2:41:02 ?

2:41:02 WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT.

2:41:04 WE BELIEVE IN OUR ABILITY TO

2:41:06 IMPLEMENT ANY LAW THAT'S.

2:41:07 PASSED.

2:41:08 AND I BELIEVE IN YOUR

2:41:09 ABILITY TO DO THAT AS WELL.

2:41:10 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:41:11 AND ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR

2:41:12 FRIDAY.

2:41:12 THANK YOU COUNCIL.

2:41:13 THANK YOU.

2:41:14 WE HAVE ONE MORE PERSON SIGNED

2:41:17 UP FOR UH PUBLIC TESTIMONY.

2:41:18 I'M NOT.

2:41:19 SURE IF THERE'S ANYONE.

2:41:20 VIRTUALLY THERE'S NO ONE

2:41:22 VIRTUALLY WE HAVE ONE MORE

2:41:23 PERSON SIGNED UP FOR, UH,

2:41:24 PUBLIC TESTIMONY AND THAT.

2:41:25 IS, UH.

2:41:25 SOMEONE WHO IS NO STRANGER

2:41:26 HERE.

2:41:27 UM, ED SHOEMAKER, UH, FROM

2:41:29 VOTER CHOICE MASSACHUSETTS AND

2:41:31 IN DORCHESTER.

2:41:31 UH, ED, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR AND

2:41:34 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:41:37 AND A FORMER COMMISSIONER.

2:41:38 AS I SAID, NO STRANGER TO THIS

2:41:40 ANYONE?

2:41:40 YES.

2:41:41 UM, I KNOW IT'S LIKE 80

2:41:42 DEGREES OUT ON A FRIDAY.

2:41:44 SO I KNOW WE ALL WANT TO HEAD

2:41:46 FOR THE EXIT, BUT I QUICKLY

2:41:47 WANTED TO THANK THE STAFF FOR

2:41:49 KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON.

2:41:50 THANK THE COUNSELOR FOR ALL THE

2:41:52 GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALL HAVE

2:41:54 DONE UH, WITH RANKED CHOICE

2:41:55 VOTING, HOME RULE.

2:41:56 PETITION AND FOR DEMOCRACY UM

2:41:58 VOTER CHOICE MASSACHUSETTS

2:42:00 ENDORSES THE QUESTION YES ON

2:42:01 FOR ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION

2:42:03 AS SOMEBODY WHO'S DONE A LOT

2:42:04 OF UH, VOTER REGISTRATION I'VE

2:42:06 BEEN CONSISTENTLY FRUSTRATED UH

2:42:08 ,ON MOVING DAY WHERE YOU TRY

2:42:09 TO REGISTER PEOPLE TO VOTE WE

2:42:10 JUST MOVED OR ENTERED THE CITY

2:42:12 AND THEY ARE NOW UNABLE TO

2:42:14 PARTICIPATE UH, IN THE UPCOMING

2:42:15 ELECTION THIS YEAR IT WAS VERY

2:42:17 CRITICAL WITH THE ELECTION

2:42:18 ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON SEPTEMBER

2:42:19 1ST, WHICH WAS THE ACTUAL

2:42:20 MOVING DAY, WHICH WAS VERY

2:42:22 FRUSTRATING FOR A LOT OF FOLKS

2:42:23 MOVING INTO THE CITY.

2:42:25 UM, I MEAN THIS IS AMERICA,

2:42:27 RIGHT?

2:42:27 WE WE ENGAGE IN DEMOCRACY.

2:42:29 WE ENGAGE IN CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.

2:42:31 UH, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE.

2:42:32 YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE THIS

2:42:33 ARBITRARY SORT OF, UM, RULE

2:42:35 THAT, YOU KNOW, DEEMS YOU, UH,

2:42:38 AN OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE VOTER

2:42:40 INELIGIBLE.

2:42:41 UM.

2:42:42 SO OTHER THAN THAT.

2:42:43 I WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, I THANK

2:42:44 EVERYTHING THAT THE COUNCIL HAS

2:42:46 BEEN WORKING ON.

2:42:47 I LOVE BEING IN THE SAME ROOM

2:42:48 AS SABINO.

2:42:49 UM, HAD A GREAT TIME WORKING

2:42:50 WITH PAUL.

2:42:51 UH, VERY THOUGHTFUL.

2:42:53 UM, WHEN IT CAME TO THE WORK

2:42:54 OF THE HOME RULE PETITION FOR

2:42:55 RANKED CHOICE VOTING HEARD

2:42:56 NOTHING BUT GOOD WORDS ABOUT

2:42:58 KERRY UH, BEING RETWEETED FROM

2:43:00 A LOT OF RESPECTED COLLEAGUES.

2:43:02 SO I FEEL LIKE I'VE ALREADY MET

2:43:03 THE MAN AND I KNOW HE'LL DO

2:43:04 GREAT WORK HERE UH, FOR THE

2:43:06 CITY OF BOSTON.

2:43:06 BUT THAT'S IT.

2:43:08 UM, ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, ONE

2:43:09 MORE THING SORRY I LIED.

2:43:10 UM, TRYING TO BE QUICK HERE.

2:43:12 UM, THE HEARING ORDER FOR THE

2:43:15 SUPPORT OF THE HOME RULE

2:43:17 PETITION THAT GOT FILED IN

2:43:18 BOSTON.

2:43:19 I KNOW THAT'S IN COMMITTEE.

2:43:20 UM, IF THERE'S A WAY WE COULD

2:43:22 RESURRECT THAT AND, UH, PASS

2:43:23 IT, UH, IT WOULD GO A LONG WAY

2:43:25 TOWARDS THE EFFORTS, UM, AT THE

2:43:27 STATE HOUSE WHICH YOU KNOW, IS

2:43:30 UH, ALWAYS A LOT OF WORK BUT

2:43:31 WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD A LOT

2:43:33 OF MOMENTUM WITH THE COLLECTION

2:43:34 OF HOME RULE PETITIONS THAT WE

2:43:36 DO HAVE AND THE LOCAL OPTION

2:43:37 BILL.

2:43:37 SO I GUESS I DID NEED ALL MY

2:43:38 TIME.

2:43:39 THANK YOU.

2:43:41 UM, AND ED REMINDED ME SO I'M

2:43:43 NOT GOING TO LET YOU GO JUST

2:43:44 YET.

2:43:45 WE DID TALK ABOUT UH WE DIDN'T

2:43:46 TALK ABOUT HOW IT AFFECTS

2:43:47 BOSTON THE CENSUS, THE

2:43:49 MUNICIPAL CENSUS AND UH UH

2:43:52 DECOUPLING THAT WITH THE WITH

2:43:53 THE VOTER.

2:43:54 UM, JUST THOUGHTS ON THAT

2:43:55 BECAUSE I THINK THAT UH WHAT

2:43:57 HAVE WE SEEN HAS THAT BEEN A

2:43:59 PROBLEM IN BOSTON AND WHAT

2:44:00 SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IT?

2:44:03 SO UH.

2:44:05 I JUST WANT TO BE CAREFUL

2:44:06 BECAUSE WE ARE NOT POLICY

2:44:08 MAKERS.

2:44:09 UH, BUT I WILL SAY THAT THE, UM

2:44:12 ,PROCESS IS ADMINISTRATIVELY

2:44:15 VERY TIME CONSUMING AND

2:44:17 RESOURCE INTENSIVE.

2:44:18 UM, TO MAIL EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN

2:44:21 THE CITY TWICE TO SEND OUT THE

2:44:24 INACTIVATION NOTICES TO RESPOND

2:44:25 TO THOSE.

2:44:26 UM, THERE IS A TREMENDOUS

2:44:29 AMOUNT OF TIME AND ENERGY

2:44:30 THAT'S PUT INTO MANAGING THAT

2:44:32 PROCESS.

2:44:34 I'M TRYING TO READ BETWEEN ANY

2:44:36 LINES THERE.

2:44:39 SO I UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S

2:44:40 IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY TO DO

2:44:41 THE MUNICIPAL CENSUS I DO I

2:44:43 WANT US TO GET AN.

2:44:44 ACCURATE COUNT.

2:44:45 BUT WE ARE SEEING THAT IT.

2:44:47 CAN BE DISENFRANCHIZING TO

2:44:48 VOTERS AND WE KNOW.

2:44:50 THAT.

2:44:50 EVEN WHEN THERE ARE ATTEMPTS

2:44:51 MADE LIKE I'M NOT GOING TO TELL

2:44:53 YOU WHAT MY RESPONSE RATE IS TO

2:44:54 MY MAIL EVEN THOUGH I AM

2:44:55 SOMEONE WHO PHYSICALLY LOVES

2:44:56 CHECKING THE MAIL.

2:44:57 LET'S ASK MY STAFF, YOU KNOW.

2:44:59 BUT THERE STILL ARE.

2:45:01 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THERE'S AND

2:45:02 TIME IS TO RESPONDING.

2:45:04 SO I'M WONDERING SORT OF IS IT

2:45:06 WORTH THAT EVEN THE ACTOR THAT

2:45:08 WE'RE PUTTING OUT TO.

2:45:09 THEN THE POTENTIAL OF.

2:45:10 THESE UH DISENFRANCHIZING OR

2:45:12 VOTER.

2:45:15 NO THANK YOU THANKS EVERYONE.

2:45:17 UM, EITHER FORMAL THINGS THAT I

2:45:18 NEED.

2:45:18 TO.

2:45:19 READ IN ORDER TO ADJOURN THIS

2:45:20 HEARING THAT I I'M NOT.

2:45:22 PUT AWAY.

2:45:22 BUT I'M REALLY GRATEFUL THIS

2:45:23 WAS A REALLY.

2:45:25 UH, THOUGHT.

2:45:26 PROVOKING AND, UH.

2:45:27 EDUCATIONAL HEARING FOR ME AND

2:45:29 I KNOW FOR MY COLLEAGUES AS

2:45:30 WELL.

2:45:31 SO THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES

2:45:32 FOR BEING HERE.

2:45:32 THANK YOU TO COUNCIL ME HERE

2:45:33 FOR STICKING IT OUT AND STILL

2:45:34 BEING HERE WITH US.

2:45:35 UM, WE KNOW THAT THE WORK IS

2:45:37 GOING TO.

2:45:38 CONTINUE AND WE KNOW THAT ALL

2:45:39 OF YOU WILL.

2:45:40 CONTINUE THAT WORK.

2:45:40 UH, WE.

2:45:41 WILL BE PULLING.

2:45:42 UH WE.

2:45:43 WILL BE, UH, ASKING FOR A

2:45:45 VOTE ON DOCKET.

2:45:46 81805 AND FOR IN.

2:45:47 SUPPORT OF QUESTION FOUR.

2:45:48 UH, ELECTION.

2:45:49 DAY REGISTRATION.

2:45:50 VOTING AND WE WILL.

2:45:51 HOLD THE DOCKET DOCKET.

2:45:54 0183 IN COMMITTEE.

2:45:55 SO WE CONTINUE TO CONTINUE.

2:45:56 TO CALL YOU INTO.

2:45:57 CHAMBERS WHEN YOU HAVE

2:45:58 QUESTIONS AND WANT TO THINK.

2:45:59 ABOUT ARE WE.

2:46:00 DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN ON

2:46:01 VOTER ACCESSIBILITY AND UM,

2:46:03 INCREASING ACCESS TO DEMOCRACY

2:46:04 FOR.

2:46:04 OUR.

2:46:05 RESIDENTS IN THE CITY.

2:46:05 OF.

2:46:06 BOSTON TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE

2:46:06 NOT.

2:46:07 TURNING THE DOORS ON DEMOCRACY.

2:46:08 ON ANY OF OUR.

2:46:10 UH UH, WORKING.

2:46:11 CLASS VOTERS VOTERS

2:46:12 OF COLOR.

2:46:13 UH, RENTERS, PEOPLE WHO ARE

2:46:15 LESS LIKELY TO.

2:46:16 UM, INTERACT WITH GOVERNMENT

2:46:17 AND GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

2:46:18 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE

2:46:19 INCREASING.

2:46:20 UM WHO IS PART OF OUR DEMOCRACY

2:46:22 ESPECIALLY IN THESE.

2:46:23 FRIGHTENING FEDERAL TIMES?

2:46:24 UM.

2:46:25 AND WE KNOW THAT WE AS.

2:46:26 A CITY WE ARE ALL UP FOR THE

2:46:27 TASK.

2:46:27 SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE

2:46:28 INCREDIBLE.

2:46:28 WORK THAT YOU DO.

2:46:29 THIS HEARING ON DOCKETS NUMBER

2:46:31 0183 AND.

2:46:32 DOCKET NUMBER.

2:46:34 1805 IS ADJOURNED.

2:46:36 THANK YOU.