I'm sorry. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning. >> Morning. >> Call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Board of Elections for Wednesday, March 18th, 2026.
This meeting is in compliance with the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act. The Philadelphia City Commissioners are a three-member bipartisan board of elected officials in charge of elections and voter registration for the city of Philadelphia. Each commissioner is elected to serve a
term that coincides with the municipal election cycle for mayor and city council. The commissioners set and enforce departmental policies to administer voter registration and conduct elections in accordance with federal state voter registration and election laws. The city commissioners
were created by the Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 where they focus on taxation and held various regulatory powers throughout the centuries. The commissioner started maintaining voter list in 1799 and took on more election related responsibilities but didn't
emerge in its current form until the adoption of Philadelphia home rule charter in 1951. We will now proceed to new business. We will begin by considering our first agenda item drawing of the ballot positions. We'll call up our deputy
executive director Dana Akro and Liza Farnick. Good morning everyone. Good morning commissioners. >> Good morning Dana. >> Everyone here that is here for the
ballot lottery. Did you all sign in? We will get started soon as everybody signs in. And while we're getting ready, I'd like to say thank you for all the people who uh who filled the brand for committee person. You know, you are the foot soldiers for democracy and we really
appreciate you. Okay. The draw for ballot positions for local offices in the 2026 general primary will commence with the following procedures. Each candidate who filed nomination petitions for a local office will have
the opportunity to draw a lot to determine their ballot position on the 2026 primary ballot. For those candidates who wish to use a proxy to draw for their ballot position, the candidate must authorize the selected individual by filing a proxy form or a
letter signed by the candidate with the county board of elections. Candidates who draw number one will be will be placed first on the ballot. Those that draw number two will be placed second on the ballot and so on. We will we will begin with the office of the Democratic
member of the word executive committee and then proceed to the Republican member of the word executive committee. We will prioritize races where the candidate or a candidate's proxy is ready to draw. We will draw in board and division
order. In races where a candidate or proxy is present, the candidate who has the earliest time stamp on their nomination petition will draw first, regardless of whether candidate or candidates proxy with the earlier time stamp is present. For offices drawn this
way, if the candidate or candidates proxy is not present, a county board of elections employee will draw on their behalf. For races where there are no candidate or candidates proxy ready to draw, we will use a random function in Excel to ex to assign the ballot
positions. The Excel function will only be used for races where no individual has already drawn. The Excel spreadsheet will randomly assign a number between zero and one to each candidate. The candidate with the largest number will be assigned the first position on the
ballot. The candidate with the second largest number will be assigned the second position and so on. Once ballot positions have been drawn either in person or through Excel, we will not redraw for any reason. Has everyone signed in here today?
>> All right. Well, we will begin with board two, division 6, Theodore Shim. All right, Theodore has drawn ball number one. He will take first. Mara Blake Ward.
I'll be pulling on her behalf. Okay, >> we'll be calling word three, division five next. Serell D. Green. Bo Gray will be pulling on behalf. Serell D. Green has chosen ball number
two. I will be pulling on behalf of James Sanders. James Sanders has drawn one. >> Next, we'll be calling Ward 5, Division 18 for Steven Datloff. Steven Datloff has drawn ball number
two. There are three candidates in this division. I will be pulling on behalf of Harvey Hurdle. Harvey Hurdle has pulled ball number three. Next, I'll be pulling on behalf of Nancy Lanham. Nancy Lam has drawn ball number one.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next, we'll be calling Ward 5, Division 21 for Mic Patrick Bole. There are four candidates in this division. Michael Patrick Bole has drawn ball
number three. I will now be pulling on behalf of Fer Ferrer Ames. Ferrer Ahmed is drawing ball number one. I will be pulling on behalf of Saul Ktor. Next. So, caster has pulled phone number four.
Next, I'll be pulling on behalf of Amy Sweeney. Amy Sweeney has drawn bone number two. While we're in between, I'd like to recognize Council Member Katherine Richardson is in the building. Also, the world leader, 52nd Ward.
Okay, next I'll be calling Wif I'm sorry, W 12, Division 15, and we'll have Kevin Terrell Zuber. Kevin Terrell Zuber has pulled ball number one. >> Next, I'll be pulling on behalf of
Brenda J. Little John. Brenda Little John has pulled ball number four. I will be pulling on behalf of Sylvia Henderson. Sylvia Henderson has pulled ball number two. Last, I'll be pulling on behalf of
Beatatric Johnson. Versus Johnson has pulled ball number three. Next, we're going to call board 16, division one. And there are five candidates in this division. We'll call up Antonio Williams to pull.
>> Bo Gray will be pulling on his behalf. Antonio Williams has drawn ball number five. >> I'll be pulling on behalf of Bright Alexander next. Bright Alexander has pulled ball number four.
I will be pulling on behalf of Tariq Lewis next. Tariq Lewis has pulled ball number one. Next, I will be pulling on behalf of Denita Bates. Denita Bates has drawn bow number three. Next on behalf I will be drawing of
Brian Lewis. Brian Lewis has drawn ball number two. Okay. The next board and division will be 2202. There are three candidates in this division and we will call Michael Norman Huff.
P Gray will be pulling on his behalf. >> Michael Michael Norman Huff has drawn ball number two. I will be pulling on behalf of Darlene M. Temple. Darlene M. Temple has drawn ball number one.
Next, I'll be pulling on behalf of Alexander Rousing. Alexander Rousing has drawn ball number three. The next board of division will be 2205. There are three candidates in this division. And we will call up Nissa
Neans. Nissan Neans has pulled ball number three. I will I will now pull on behalf of Patricia A Bryant. Patricia A. Bryant has drawn ball number two.
Next, I'll be drawing on behalf of Michael L. Bryant Jr. Michael El Bryant Jr. has drawn ball number one. We'll be drawing for W 29, division 13. There are four candidates and Bo Gray will be drawing on behalf of Philip
Bocastro. Philip Belcastro has drawn ball number three. I will now be polling on behalf of Tammy A. Crummy. Tammy A. Crummy has drawn ball number two. I will be pulling on behalf of Diane
Johnson. Next, Diane Johnson has pulled ball number one. I will now be pulling on behalf of Jordan Anthony Hbert. Jordan Anthony Hbert has pawned ball number four.
We will be drawing forward 48, division, I'm sorry, board 34, division 8. There are four candidates and Bo Gray will be pulling on behalf of Karen W. Ford. one. Karen W. Ford has drawn ball number
one. I will now be pulling on behalf of Patricia Harris. Patricia Harris has drawn ball number three. I will now be drawing on behalf of Robert Harris.
Robert Harris has drawn ball number two. Now I'll be pulling on behalf of Shemica Osborne. Shemica Osborne has pulled ball number four. We will be calling up Ward 46, division
11, Thelma Peak. There are three candidates in this division. Thelma Peak has drawn ball number three. I will now be pulling on behalf of Sergio. if you wouldn't come up and pull your Sergio has drawn ball number two.
Is Dawn Williams here? I will be pulling on behalf of Dawn Williams. Don Williams has pulled ball number one. The next division is ward. The next ward is 57. The division is 24. There is only
one candidate in this division which was Shane B. Fitzgerald. Okay, we're going to update our sign-in sheet and get to whoever that we have missed that came in after. What is this? We will be calling up Ward 36, division
40. There are four candidates in this division and we'll have Miguel K. Johnson. Miguel K. Johnson has drawn ball number four. Is there anyone else here from division 406?
>> I will now be pulling on behalf of Jamal Anthony Baroon. Jamal Anthony Baroon has pulled ball number two. I'll now be pulling on behalf of Abraham G. Green Abraham G. Green has pulled ball number
three. I'll now be pulling on behalf of Karen D. Harris. Karen D. Harris has pulled bone number one. We will now call up Ward 58, division 16. There are two candidates in this
division and we will have Bob Stewart come up to pull. Bob Stewart has pulled ball number one. I will now pull on behalf of Joe Joe Ellen Siski. Joe Ellen Sixki has pulled ball number
two. Is there anybody here that has not come forward or sign the signin sheet? That concludes the ballot position drawing for today. >> Nice job everyone.
Thank you again everyone uh for coming out. Uh that is our last item on the agenda uh before we adjourn. Commissioner Diller, do you have any other business to relate to this meeting? I have none. Just thank everybody for coming out and being a
part of it. Thank you. >> I have nothing to add. Thank you. >> Thank you, commissioners. >> A motion that we uh close that we adjourn today's meeting. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Secretary Bluestein, please call the role. >> Vice Chair De I.
>> I vote I. Chairman Sabir. >> I This meeting is a journ.