Good morning. When I call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Board of Election for Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025. 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 4-year term that coincides with the municipal with the municipal election cycle for mayor and
city council. The commissioner set and enforced departmental policies to administer voter registration and conduct elections in accordance with federal and state voter registration election laws. The city commissioners were created by the Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 with a focus on
taxation and held various regulatory powers throughout the century. The commissioner started maintaining border list in 1799 and took a more election related responsibility but didn't emerge in its current form until the adoption of Philadelphia's home rule charter in
1951. We will start off with public comments before beginning their comments. Commenters state where they live or they are not a resident of Philadelphia and that they are Philadelphia taxpayer. Public comment is not an opportunity for dialogue or Q&A.
It is public comment, a chance for you to tell us what you think. Each speaker will have two minutes. However, I may extend the time at my discretion. Public comment must concern matters on today's meeting agenda. Finally, it is my responsibility to preserve the order and
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Anyone wishing to offer public comment, please step forward. There are no public commenters. We will now move on to report from Secretary Bluestein. Are there any public are there any email public comments? As of 9:45 a.m., there were no
email public comments. Thank you, Secretary. We will now proceed to old business. First, we will move to report from our director of operations, Mr. Joseph Lynch. Morning, commissioners. Good morning. This is our public meeting update for
April 23rd, 2025. April 21st at 5:00 pm, we lock down the election database for the primary election and the warehouse staff began the final test on the voting machines. For our voter registration report for the election cycle to date, we have processed
94,962 voter registration applications. 4,200 were paper. Del Spring Garden is currently viewing all applications and correcting mistakes as necessary. As of Tuesday, the county board of elections has approved
64,18 vote by mail and absentee applications, which is 1,39 added from last week's total. Of those, 39,155 are paper applications and
24,953 are electronic applications. This includes military and civilian overseas voters. All processing is currently up to date. Voters who would like to vote by mail for the May 20th municipal primary election can apply for a mailin
or absentee ballot at vote.fill.gov. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 13th at 5:00 pm. The board workers unit is continuing our spring training sessions and so far 2,114 pole workers have attended the
trainings. The full schedule for our election board training seminars is available online at vote.fill.gov. We will continue confirming pole workers for the elections. We've already received confirmations for 7,534 pole workers.
Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you, Joe. Vice Chair Diller, do you have any questions? Thank you. I have none. Secretary Bling, do you have any questions? I have not. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. This completes our old business for today's
meeting. We now proceed to new business. We begin Consider our first agenda item, polling places changes. We will hear from our polling places investigation supervisor, Charlie Strowman. Good morning, Charlie. Good morning, commissioners. I have 17 proposals on
the docket today. The first four will be a multiple awards. The fifth ward and the 18th ward. There's four of them all going from the same place and going to the same place also. So in the fifth ward, the 21st division, the 33rd division, the 34th
division, and then in the 18th ward, the 19th division, 19th division, all going from the Filillmore music venue to the punchline Philly and that is all due to a scheduling conflict. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we
accept the polling place change for ward 5, division 21, 33, 34, and 18 ward 19th division. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blues team, please call a rule. Vice Chair De I. I vote I.
Chairman Seir. All right. Please proceed. The next set will be six of them. Eighth ward and the 30th ward. In the eighth ward will be the fifth division, the 14th division, the 20th division, the 34th division, 35th division, and in the 30th word, the
third division. All going from Kimmel Center to the Suzanne Roberts Theater. And it was all due to a scheduling conflict. Having heard the recommendation of the professional of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for W 8,
division 5, 14, 20, 20, 34,35, and Ward 30 division 3. Is there a second? Chairman, before seconding, can I can I ask Charlie a question? Yes, you may.
Charlie, this is just for this election and then the Kimmel Center so we can come back. That is correct. They locked us in for the November election. Thank you, Charlie, for your work. Second. Secretary Blon, please call a role. Vice Chair De I. I vote I. Chairman Seir. I
please proceed. Next one will be in the 34th ward, the 24th division moving out of Overbrook Tower Apartments to the Overbook School for the Blind. And that is due to a refusal. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we
accept the poll and please change for W 34 division 24. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blstein, please call a rule. Vice Chair Dy I. I vote I. Chairman Seabir. I. Please proceed. Next two will be in the 35th ward, the 10th
division and the 11th division moving out of the Franklin School into the Longest Branch Library. And they are both back to the original location. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the poll in place change for W 35
division 10 and 11. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blues team, please call a rule. Vice Chair Dy I. I vote I. Chairman Seir I. Please proceed. Next two will be in the 58th ward, the fifth division and the 21st divi first division moving out of Calvary Chapel to
the Summer Methodist Church and that is due to refusal and they will be back in November. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for W 58 division 5 and 21. Is there a second? Second. Secretary
Bluestein, please call a role. Vice Chair Dey, I. I vote I. Chairman Seir I please proceed the next two and it'll be the last two in the 59th ward the fifth division and the ninth division moving out of shepherd's heart ministry to face toface and that is due to a refusal
having heard the recommendation of the professional staff I move that we accept the polling place change for ward 59 division five and nine is there a second secretary blue team please call the role vice chair de I I vote I chairman
I thank you Charlie. You're welcome. That was the last item on our agenda. Uh before we adjourn, Vice Chair Diller, do you have any business to be raised at this meeting? I have none. Chairman Secretary Bluen, do you have any other
business to be raised at this meeting? Uh thank you, Chairman. I just want to thank um Allison Store for her work with us for the last year and a half and uh she's accepted a new position and this is her last week. So I just want to thank her for her work. And I like to echo that sentiment.
Alison always had the energy. She climbing mountains. She doing everything. And uh she really was there for us at a reput. I really appreciate you. And you're not going anywhere. So you still got staff surge and we still got different things. So definitely great to
have you back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And and other business also like to mention or like to congratulate our secretary Bluestein. He's being honored as the Republican man of the
year. It's a prestigious honor that not too many Philadelphiaians get. So our own Seth Bluestin is the Republican man of the year. Thank you, Chairman. I have any other business? Secretary Bluestein, please. A motion that this means adjourned. Secretary Blueste, please
call the RO. I'm sorry. Want somebody want to second that? Second. Secretary Blueste, please call a role. Vice Chair De. I vote I. Hi