Good afternoon. Call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Return Board for Friday, November the 21st, 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 registrations 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, but they
focused 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 to 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 will state where they live or if they are not a resident of Philadelphia, that they are a Philadelphia taxpayer.
Public comment is not 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, a 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 none, we will now proceed to uh report from our secretary for email public comments. Secretary Seth
Bluestein, are there any email public comments? >> Uh good afternoon, commissioners. All comments that were emailed by 9:45 a.m. were shared with the commissioners and deputies by 10:00 a.m. and have been provided to each commissioner at the beginning of the meeting and are also available at the public comment table.
We received one email public comment for this week's meeting from Jared Holiday related to today's tiebreaker procedures. Uh I did speak with Deputy Director Ecro who uh responded to Mr. Holiday uh about the procedures. I have reviewed the comment and I asked that we
move it into the record. >> I have also reviewed them. Uh please move them into the record. >> I have also reviewed them to move them into the record. Thank you. Thank you, Secretary Bluestein. We will
now proceed to new business. We will begin by considering the first agenda item under casting of the lots for Thai voters. We will cap our deputy executive director Dana.
>> Good afternoon everyone. >> Good afternoon Dana. Anyone who is here for casting of the lots for the tide elections, please make sure that you sign in. Before we begin, I just want to go over the rules before we
proceed. The county board will draw in order of warden and 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. If the
tie is for first, the candidate the candidate that draws ball number one wins the position of majority inspector and the candidate that draws ball number two wins the position of minority inspector.
If the tie is for second place, the candidate that draw that draws ball number one wins the position of minority inspector. 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 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, either in person or in Excel, we will not redo the tiebreaker draw for any reason.
All board worker position winners will be mailed a certificate within the upcoming weeks. Judges of election ties will not be drawn today by state election law. Those ties will be decided by the elected
majority inspector instead of a drawing of lots. All board worker winners um I just stated that will receive a certificate within the next coming weeks. We will proceed
>> real quick before you proceed. Um I just want to say thank you number one for coming up here. I really appreciate you coming up here. You know, you are the cornerstone of democracy and I can't thank begin to thank you how much you
come out every single election and serve our democracy. So, I just want to make sure it's on the record that we thank you and I'm pretty sure other commissioners feel the same way. If you want to commissioners want to say something as well before we begin. >> Thank you, chairman. I completely agree
with your sentiments. Uh thank you to all the board worker candidates who are uh serving our elections. We really appreciate [clears throat] it. >> I'll echo the sentiments of my colleagues. Uh just so you know, that was my first elected position was judge
of elections when I was 18. So rah rah judges of election and and majority inspectors. You are, as the chairman said, the backbone. Thank you. >> Please proceed. >> [laughter] >> We're going to There's two better
now. I'll be picking on behalf of Ana Louise George. Okay, we'll now call Jason Susan for 2214. No, this is for 224 and it should be
Susan Roxie for this. I will now pull on behalf of Jason number I'll now be pulling on behalf of Malachi Barnes number one. I'll be pulling on behalf of Jasmine
Council number three. The next draw will be on number two. for 224. Winner will be number one. Okay. So, this will be 25
people. I will pull on number two. Next will be the winner of this award and division will Peter Deb. Can we have Ryan come up?
number one. I will be pulling. The winner will be 257. The next board of division will be 3635. And can we have Prince? This is a sevenway tie for this
division. Number four, I will be pulling on number seven. Nexterson number two. Next number one Julie Quincale.
That is number three, Michael Edward. Number six, Emily Catherine. Number five, the winner for 365
is Sophie Max. All right, the next board we'll be calling for is 5824 and we'll have this boardision tie. Number three,
I'll be pulling on behalf of number two. Next, I'll be pulling on behalf of Joseph. Joseph Wessel is the winner. Next3633. There's a two-way tie. And if we could
have Brian O'Drisco, please. Okay. Number two, I'll be pulling on behalf of Francis H. Dangelo. Number one. The winner for 6633 is Francis Dangelo.
17. The next board in division we'll be pulling for is 1703. And if we could have stalworth. This ward and division is a three-way tie.
Number three. >> Excuse. I'll be pulling on behalf of Donald Kennedy for 1703. Number one. Next, I'll be pulling on behalf of Shaunie Bright.
Number two, the winner for this warden and division of 1703 is Donald Kennedy. Is there anybody here that did not sign in or has not been called? So, thank you again uh for everybody
that came. We'll take a recess uh to 12:30. Understand people have been stuck in traffic. I'll reconvene at 12:30. Thank you. Megan again. Not
very good. Exactly. back to reconvene. Uh Dana Echo, please proceed. >> We'll be pulling for W 57, Division 22. Can we please have Michaela Myers come up?
This is a two-way tie for this board and division. Number two. Okay. I'm going to pull on behalf of Eric Neville number one. So, the winner for majority inspector will be Eric Neville. The
minority inspector, Michaela Myers. Is there anybody that did not sign in or that was not called to pull the ball? Correction. That was for minority only. Minority will be Eric Devil.
So just real quick, can I just repeat what just happened just so we on the same page? >> A majority was already a winner. That ball poll was for the minority and Eric Neville pulled number one for the minority inspector.
And uh Dana, did you just want to just reiterate what happens uh after this for the people who didn't show up? For anyone that did not show up today, we will um 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. And then in a few weeks, we'll send out um war worker certificates in the mail. If anybody wishes to resign, they could just sign resign and mail it back to us as well if they're not interested in
fulfilling this position. >> Mr. Mr. Chairman, I have a question for Dana if I may. >> Yes, you may. >> Dana, before you do the Excel function, it appears that in 2226 there is a Kim Possible, a fictional
cartoon character um recorded as receiving a a writing vote. Um as Kim Possible is not a person, I believe um that we should take her out of the function. You should be void.
>> Okay. >> Secretary, do you have a problem with that? >> I have no objection that assuming if they check sure and there's no actual Kim Possible registered. >> Yes, we'll check sure to make sure that that's impossible.
>> Kim Possible. [laughter] >> Thank you. We will now Thank you, Dan. I appreciate you. Your staff as well. I know it's not easy. Appreciate everything that you do. Uh we will now move to any uh additional comments by commissioners. Vice Chair Dylan, do you have any other business to
reate this meeting? >> Thank you. I >> Secretary Bluestein, do you have any other business to raise this meeting? >> Thank you. I have not. >> And I would just also just like to again thank uh for everyone who came up and also if you did not win, you can still
serve on the election board. Uh Megan will be sending you something out. So we definitely we have holes. So we definitely can serve on the election board in some capacity somewhere. But thank you again. Thank you commissioners.