Board member. I'm going to get the meeting started and we'll see if our council person Hallam can join the teams. Um so, I'd like to call to order the meeting in the Board of Elections for Tuesday, October 22nd at 3 PM. Call to order? Thank you. Uh chair Ann Marado. Present. Member Demarco. Here. Uh Member Hallam not present. Supposedly going to participate by phone but not yet. Yes. You.
Okay, moving on to public comment. I believe we have four who have registered. First up is Ira Glick. Good afternoon. Um originally, I was going to address this group with my back facing youth because many people that have come in the past kind of feel ignored, disrespected, and dismissed like they're talking to the wall but I wasn't raised that way to to not let people and engage them when I speak to them. So, I just want to make a symbolic gesture. Um
my main focus is to stress that I think it's important to get to same day voting with photo IDs and stop this circus of what we have to go through with all the confusion. Um mail-in voting and harvesting and lost resources and moneys that could be spent on better things to better our society. Um I have two simple scenarios and which could tell me if you have any protocols in place to stop potential voter fraud. Um one of
the previous elections I read in the newspaper several people were interviewed. They lived they moved from one state another like they lived in North Carolina. They registered for mail in ballot. In the meantime, they moved, got a new job in Pittsburgh and registered the residency here and we're going to vote in person. Um but if they were predisposed to fool around with the monkey business with the election, they could've you know, voted in their mail-in ballot and you know,
going back to their parents in North Carolina to visit, get the mail in ballot, send it in, and then vote again whether you currently live in Pittsburgh. Another say, well, how many people really going to do that? So, it's not really that, you know, big a deal but it's kind of symbolic of what put ideas in people's heads like if if I wanted to go vacation in Mexico, it's kind of a popular place to go. I could say register for mail-in voting here. Six months ago, I, let's say, went to Mexico on
vacation and I decided to come back. You know, I joined the car van. Couple tens of thousands of people coming north and may change my name to Ira like Ira Obama or something. Come up with a fictitious name. And then vote, you know, get a driver's license. I understand that some states, the DMV, you can register to vote at the same time. I could then like vote twice with the mail-in vote as Ira Glick and his his new fictitious person. I am seeking
asylum in the sanctuary city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Um now many people are going to go to that trouble and do something like that. Probably very few. It's going to be a rare but in the age of social media and all the political mobilization we have around voting and elections. Maybe one day we'll see that you know Facebook gets involved and Google and They say. Thank you, mister Glick. Can I say 15 seconds? I'm sorry, your time is up. 15 seconds. Your time is up, sir. Thank you. Alright, thank
you. Thank you for whatever. Kevin Sheehan. Kevin's not here. Okay, I will come back to him if someone sees him if you just. He's he's not planning on coming in. Okay. Uh and Matt Van Bibber, you are next. Good afternoon. So, I was wanting to attend the LNA testing this year. Um I did get a letter to go to it but unfortunately, when I called down, the testing was already completed. Um several weeks ago, I asked to review some of the documents from the
LNA testing, video footage, and some other things. I asked it not right not too long after the LNA testing. I never got a response back and Emailed the county several times. Still didn't get response backup in a right to know and today, I finally got a response back after I Emailed the Board of