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Good morning. I call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Elections for Wednesday, December 17, 2025. I would like to note for the record that Chairman Sabir is present and attending this meeting telephonically. For public comments, we will start off

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with public comments before beginning their comments. Commenters shall state where they live or if they are not a resident of Philadelphia that they are a Philadelphia taxpayer. Public comment is not an opportunity for dialogue or Q&A. It is public comment, a chance for you

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to tell us what you think. Each speaker will have two minutes to speak. 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 decorum of the meetings. As such,

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profane, slanderous, discriminatory, or personal attacks will not be tolerated. If you wish to make a public objection to a perceived Sunshine V act violation, please raise your hand and I will recognize you. Outburst will not be tolerated. Anyone wishing to offer a

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public comment, please step forward. As of 9:45 a.m., there were also no emailed public comments. Seeing no public comments, we will move forward with old business with reports from our directors of election operations and election administration. We will start

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with Mr. Joseph Lynch. Joe. >> Yes. Good morning, commissioners. For our voter registration report, the unit has processed all affirmation and assistance declarations from the November election. They have processed 25,169

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voter registration applications with 850 being paper. They are printing out close to 8,000 AVN letters that they will be mailing out this week. They will begin to print ID cards out after the new year. Excuse me. County board will be

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preparing to mail out certificates to the board workers winner the board worker winners. They are hoping to have them mailed out by early next week. The unit is also gearing up for committee people petitions for the May 19th primary. The election board unit sent out 8,388

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payroll checks to board workers that worked in the November election. Satellite election offices are open to the public for voter services 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. The voting machine warehouse guys are working on the post-election maintenance

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of the XL machines. Poll poll book unit is doing the same task. Thank you. That's all I have. >> Thank you. Vice Chair Dey, do you have any questions for Joe? >> Uh, Chairman Seabir, do you have any questions for Joe?

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>> Thank you. Uh, Mark, your report, please. >> Good morning, commissioners. >> Good morning. >> With the general election now concluded, our focus has shifted to preparation for the May 2027 primary election. Over the past several weeks, I've asked all unit managers to meet with their teams to assess what work well during an

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election, identify areas for improvement, and outline what resources or changes may be needed moving forward. Nearly all units have completed this process and are currently preparing to present their findings at a comprehensive executive staff meeting scheduled for early next year. In

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parallel, we are actively working on the FY2027 budget and human resources continues to focus on staffing needs and related concerns to ensure our office remains well prepared to properly support to be properly supported for upcoming elections. This gives us the opportunity

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to reflect, make practical improvements, and continue moving forward in a positive direction. And I just want to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday if I don't get to talk to everyone after this. >> Thank you, Vice Chair D. Do you have any questions for Mark? >> I have none. >> Chairman smear, do you have any

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questions for Mark? >> I have none. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. We will now move on to new business uh where we will consider the first agenda item, which is the casting of lots for tie votes for judges of election. We'll

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now call up deputy executive director Dana Ecro. Good morning, Dana and Liza. >> Good morning, everyone. Before we begin, I just want to go over the rules before we proceed. The county board will draw an order of warden and

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division. If more than one person is present to draw for the same race, the candidate that was checked in first will draw first and so on. The candidate that draws ball number one wins the position

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of judge of election. To draw on behalf of a candidate as a proxy, the proxy must have a letter signed by the candidate authorizing them to do so. A county board of elections employee will draw for candidates not present. For all races where no candidate or

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proxy is present, we will use a random function in Excel to decide the tiebreaker. The candidate that draws the largest number in the random function will win the tie. Once a race has been drawn in person or

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in Excel, we will not redo the tiebreaker draw for any reason. All board worker position winners will be mailed a certificate in the beginning of next week. Does anybody have any questions before

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we proceed? Okay, I'm going to let Liza Franch take over. First we have Sheri Hankala for 3318. So, I am picking on behalf of Eric Connor, Senior, who drew ball number one and

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will be the judge of election for 3318. Can we please call up Brian Wkelman? Okay. Ball number ball number two. So for 6404 Dra Multmutz will be the judge of election. That concludes the LA poll for today.

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All right, thank you all for that. We'll move on to the second item of new business, which is a motion that I have. First, I'd like to thank all the judges of election who came here today for the drawing of lots and your interest in serving the city and your neighbors is deeply

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appreciated. Earlier this year, we held a series of very successful pizza with poll workers events throughout the city at our satellite election offices. At these events, we were able to thank our pole workers for their service to the community. It was also an excellent

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opportunity to get feedback directly from the pole workers who spend 14-hour days at least twice a year making sure that Philadelphia's elections remain successful. A common refrain I heard at these events came from our judges of elections who have additional responsibilities on

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election day beyond the norm for the rest of their boards. And they were wondering why their pay is only $5 more than the rest of the workers. While remaining mindful of our fiscal limitations, I believe it's worth recognizing the extra efforts to which these uh judges elections go. So I'm

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proposing to increase the stipend for our judges as follows. I move that an additional stipen, the additional stipen paid to the judges of election for transporting the election materials be increased by $10 per election, making the total value of that stipen $15 per

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election. Uh, is there a second? >> Second. >> Uh, before we vote on the motion, uh, Vice Chair Dey, do you have any questions or comments? >> I have none. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Chairman, do you have any questions or comments?

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I just echo u your uh sentiments uh regards with the motions. Madam really thank you for your leadership uh for stepping up the motion. >> Thank you chairman. Uh we will now move forward uh to a vote on the motion. Uh vice chair de how do you vote?

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>> I >> I vote I chairman Sabir >> I. >> All right the motion passes three to zero. Thank you both. Um before we move on to adjournment, uh Vice Chair Dilly, do you have any other business to be

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raised at this meeting? >> I thank you. Chairman Sabir, do you have anything else to raise at this meeting? >> Uh yes. Again, I'd like to thank the staff as always as always for all your hard work. Like like the pole workers for all the hard work that they do. And

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you know, we're up here making way to Harrisburg to lobby, you know, for the city commissioner so we can get you know, more resources and we can definitely have more accountability. So again, I thank you the two commissioners for stepping up and filling in the three member

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bipartisan board. I'm very excited to meet still go on even though I wasn't physically uh present. >> Uh thank you chairman. Um with nothing else on the agenda, I would like to make a motion to adjurnn. Do I have a second?

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>> Second. >> All right. Thank you. Uh Vice Chair Dilly, how do you vote? I >> I vote I. Chairman Sabir >> I. >> All right. Thank you. This meeting is adjourned. I wish everyone happy holidays and we'll see you in the new year.

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>> Thank you.