Good morning. I call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Board of Elections for Wednesday, September the 24th, 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 four-year term that coincides with the municipal election cycle for mayor and
city council. The commissioner set and enforce 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 centuries. The commissioner started maintaining voter list in 1799 and took on more election related responsibilities but didn't emerge until its current form until the
adoption of Philadelphia's home charter in 1951. We will start off with public comments before beginning their comments. Commenters shall state where they live or if they are not a resident in 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 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, profane, slanderous, discriminatory, or personal attacks will not be tolerated. If you wish to make a public objection to a perceived Sunshine Act violation, please raise your hand and I will
recognize you. Outburst will not be tolerated. Anyone wishing to offer public comment, please step forward. Hearing no public comment, we will now move to report from Secretary Bluestein for email public comments. Commissioner Bluestein, are there any
email public comments? >> As of 9:45 a.m., there were no email public comments. Thank you very much. We will now proceed to old business. But first, we have report from our directors for operation, Mr. Joe Lynch. >> Morning, commissioners.
>> Morning, Joe. >> Here we go again. All right. So, to report for today, September 24th, for our public meeting at the election warehouse, the voting machine services unit has completed the logic and accuracy testing and is
working on finishing the final test. The e pollbook unit has completed express vote printing testing. The election materials unit has been working to ensure that the supplies needed for our poll workers are ordered, organized, and ready for packing. They have also been
working on assembling the new provisional envelope packets. As of the current election cycle, we have processed 92,523 voter registration applications, including 3,850 paper applications.
All applications are up to date. Delaware and Spring Gardener is currently reviewing all applications, correcting errors as needed, and assisting with mail in ballot applications. The County Board of Elections sent out our first initial mailing of Yumova
ballots to all civilians, overseas, and military voters. On September 19th, 2025, they sent out 73 ballots. On September 22nd, 2025, we sent out our first initial mailing of ballots. We has we
have sent out 78,10 ballots to the for the 2025 municipal election. As of Tuesday, we have approved 78,443 vote by mail and absentee applications. Of those, 44,12
are paper applications and 34,341 are electronic applications. This includes military and civilian overseas voters. We currently have a total of 979 applications pending processing. Of
those, 489 are paper applications and 490 are electronic applications. Our satellite office located in city hall room 140 is now open to serve the public. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm. Voters who
have not yet received their ballot and requested one may request a replacement ballot on Wednesday, October 1st. Voters who would like to vote by mail for the November 4th municipal election can apply for a mailin or absentee ballot at
vote.fill.gov. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, October 28th, 5:00 pm. Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 is the deadline for filing cycle 4, six Tuesday pre-election campaign finance reports.
All candidate committees, political committees, or a committee contributing to a candidate for office that has made expendure expenditures to influence a city election must file a report as they are now passed due. The board worker unit held summer
refresher trainings for 2553 attend attendees and has begun fall training. The election board training seminar schedule is posted on our website vote.fill.gov. To date, 2,000 poll workers have
registered for fall trainings with 739 Oops, sorry. 739 already in attendance. Online training will be posted on October 6, 2025. So far, we have confirmed 4,35
pole workers. Weekly reminders will be sent to pole workers who have not yet confirmed their attendance. Confirmation calls for all wards began on September 22nd, 2025. We're holding PE pizza and pole worker events in each council district at the
SEOs. So far, 400 pole workers have attended the events in council districts 1 through six. Events at SEOs 7, 8, 9, and 10 are scheduled to take place over the next three weeks. RSV is required to
attend. You can RSVP on our website at vote.fill.gov. Speaking of satellite offices, they are now open to the public with staff available from 9 900 a.m. to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. You can register
to vote, update your registration, apply for a mailin or absentee ballot, complete a mail mailin or absentee ballot, return a completed mail-in absentee ballot, obtain replacement ballots, declaration envelopes or
secrecy envelopes at at our 10 SEO locations. Our locations are listed on our website at vote.fill.gov. Dropboxes throughout the city are being unlocked today for voters to drop off their ballots.
We receive, just a side note, we received a uh call today that Eastwood Library is under construction, so we're sending somebody out to investigate that. The camera's offline. Um, we posted that on our website. So, we'll keep you I'll keep you posted on that.
>> And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Thanks, Joe. Commissioners, do you have any questions for Joe? >> I have nothing. >> I have not. Thank you. >> Thanks, Joe. I appreciate you. >> Thank you.
>> We will now proceed to new business. We will begin by considering our first agenda items. We will hear from our polling place investigation supervisor, Charlie Strong. >> Good morning, commissioners. >> Morning. >> Good morning, Charles.
The first set of hearings is going to be in the fifth ward and the e 18th ward. All going from the same same place to another place which is the same 0521 0533
0534 and 18/19 all going from Punchline Philly back to the Philillmore music ven venue which is back to the original location. Having heard the recommendation of professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for WA
5, division 21, 33, 34, and war 18 division 9. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Secretary Blu, please call the role. >> Vice Chair Dy >> I. >> I vote I. Chairman Seir, >> I please proceed. Next three are in the
21st ward, 19th division, 20th division, and 27th division. All going from Roxboro Memorial Hospital back to the Epic Church. >> Having heard the recommendation of professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for W
21, division 19, 20, and 27. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Secretary Bluestein, please call the role. >> Vice Chair Dey. I >> I vote I chairman Spear >> I. Please proceed. >> Next three will be in the 25th ward, fourth division, fifth division, and
seventh division. All coming from Richmond Elementary School back to the Richmond Library. >> Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for WA 25, division 4, five, and seven. Is
there a second? >> Second. >> Secretary Bluestein, please call the role. Vice Chair Dey >> I >> I vote I chairman Samir >> I please proceed. Next set of hearings will be in the eighth ward and the 30th ward. Eighth ward, fifth division,
eighth ward, 14th division, eighth ward, 20th division, eighth ward, 34th division, 8th ward, 35th division, and in the 30th ward, the third division. All leaving Suzanne Roberts Theater and back to the Kimmel Center.
Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for ward 8, division 5, 14, 20, 34, and 35, and ward 30, division 3. Is there a second?
>> Second. >> Secretary Blue's team, please call the role. >> Vice Chair Dy >> I. >> I vote I. Chairman Sabir, >> I. Please proceed. the next two and will be the last two in the 58th ward, the fifth division and the 21st. All leaving
Summer Methodist Church back to Calvary Chapel. >> Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the poll and please change for W 58, division 5 and 21. Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Secretary Bluest Team, please call the role. >> Vice Chair Dy >> I. >> I vote I. Chairman Seir, >> I. Thank you, Charlie. >> You're welcome. >> Appreciate you. That was our last item of the agenda before we adjourn. Vice Chair Dailyaly,
do you have any other business to be raised at this meeting? >> Thank you. I have none. >> Secretary Bluestain, do you have any other business to be raised at this meeting? >> I have none. Thank you. >> Okay. I would like to thank uh staff. Welcome back. It's great to be back for another season. And uh the pizza and
pole workers. Uh that was a great idea. We haven't That was one of the great ideas that we had in this department and uh the public is loving it, the pole workers loving it. Like to thank to all the staff who are sacrificing their time at night time to come on out. We really appreciate you. There are no other
business. I motion to adjourn today's meeting. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Secretary Blues team, please call the role. >> Vice Chair Dey I. >> I vote I. Chairman Seir. >> I meeting is adjourned.