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Speaker 1: Show back on seven hundred, wolbody got an election coming

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Speaker 1: up Tuesday. Levees in a dozen places, local offices, and

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Speaker 1: there's a big CPS renewal. We've got the mayor's race,

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Speaker 1: of course, and some twenty six people. It feels like

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Speaker 1: three thousand people trying to place in the top nine.

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Speaker 1: So twenty six people looking for nine jobs in a

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Speaker 1: Sea Down council on this and more. Is the person

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Speaker 1: who controls it all. That would be the director of

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Speaker 1: the Hamlet County Board of Elections, Sherry Poland, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: How are you.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: You always in a good mood. This is like right now

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Speaker 1: I would be just crabby af you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: because you got so much coming at you right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, so we'll start with this. The polls up

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, six thirty am to seven thirty I believe correct.

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Speaker 2: That's crack six thirty am to seven thirty pm.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget the driver's license.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, that's correct. A few years ago, Hi Ohio

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Speaker 2: changed these acceptable forms of ID for voting, so in

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Speaker 2: order to vote in person, you do need to have

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Speaker 2: a State of Ohio driver's license or a State of

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Speaker 2: Ohio identification card, or a passport or military ID. So

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Speaker 2: make sure it's not expired. Make sure it's up to

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Speaker 2: date before you come to the polls.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I bring one that's expired, I forget it. What happens,

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Speaker 1: I can vote.

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Speaker 2: No problem. If you do not have an acceptable form

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Speaker 2: provisional ballot. It's the same ballot that's issued to every

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Speaker 2: other voter you would market, but instead of scanning it

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Speaker 2: and having it counted election night, it's placed inside what

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Speaker 2: we call a provisional envelope and that has your identifying

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Speaker 2: information on it. You fill that out after election day.

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Speaker 2: Bipartisan teams verify the information on the envelope, and the

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Speaker 2: voter has four days after election day, so that's the

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Speaker 2: Saturday after election Day to come to the Board of

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Speaker 2: then that ballot will be added to the official count,

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Speaker 2: which occurs a few weeks after election day. I do

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Speaker 2: want to note that if you're in fign yourself in

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Speaker 2: that situation right now, so your driver's license or state

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Speaker 2: idea is expired. Go to the BMV before you come

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Speaker 2: to the polls. That interim documentation that the BMB gives

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Speaker 2: you while your identifications being mailed to you, that interim

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Speaker 2: idea that's good for driving purposes, it's also acceptable for voting.

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Speaker 2: So if you have that, you will not have to

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Speaker 1: Okay, got it. Let's talk about the early voting numbers,

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Speaker 1: how early voting the absentee ballots, and how did the

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Speaker 1: you about what's going to happen Tuesday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So absent te voting, which is that umbrella that

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Speaker 2: We're pretty much right on track as to the twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one election. So four years ago, once again Cincinnati

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Speaker 2: was voting council members and this election, that turnout is

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Speaker 2: tracking right on pace with that twenty twenty one election.

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Speaker 1: Okay, compare that to like a presidential cycle, the last

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Speaker 1: presidential election, so one percent. Okay, what are we talking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So in twenty twenty one, county wide, we saw

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Speaker 2: a twenty six percent turnout. City Cincinnati is slightly lower,

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Speaker 2: a twenty five percent. Compare that to a presidential where

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Speaker 2: we see a seventy two percent turnout. So unfortunately, we

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Speaker 2: encourage everyone if you haven't voted yet, voted yet early

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Speaker 1: I would say it's simply but it's marketing, I think right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Something else we see is that you know,

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Speaker 2: So two years ago, twenty twenty three odd year, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I think me and that's probably a

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Speaker 1: You start talking about millage and levees and school boards

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Speaker 2: You can absolutely skip the contest. That is your right

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Speaker 2: to do that. But I think you bring up another

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Speaker 2: very good point, and that is to become an informed voter.

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Speaker 2: And it's easy to do if you vote by mail

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Speaker 2: voting by mail has ended. That ended on Tuesday. Anyone

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Speaker 2: application to the board by this past Tuesday, Chamber twenty,

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Speaker 2: So review ahead of time, do your research like you did,

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Speaker 1: Scott's Onland with Sherry Poland. She's the director Hamilin County

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Speaker 1: Board of Elections got the election coming up Tuesday. If

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Speaker 1: you're in person, at six point thirty relative to that, Sherry,

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Speaker 1: fatigued too going I'm going to take a knee here

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Speaker 2: That surprised me, you know, and it's still a possibility

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Speaker 2: on election day. You know, the majority of voters in

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Speaker 2: Hamilton County still choose to vote on election day, so

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Speaker 2: you know, we might see that higher turnout come. Then.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't have a crystal ball that tells

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Speaker 2: me that, but we'll find out on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exact, we'll find out together on Tuesday. Regarding that too,

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Speaker 1: looking at the trend and it's just align almost straight upward.

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Speaker 1: Are we seeing the trend continue upward?

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Speaker 2: What we're seeing continue to trend upward is the early

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Speaker 2: in person voting. It's just become, you know, extremely extremely

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Speaker 2: popular in Hamilton County. It started when we moved the

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Speaker 2: trending upward, is that early in person vote voting every

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Speaker 2: we had many many people vote by mail, obviously due

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Speaker 2: After twenty twenty, we went back to the majority of

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Speaker 1: On election I hate that's happening.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, I think one way. You know,

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Speaker 2: we live in the Midwest. We like our traditions. You know,

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people that say to me,

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Speaker 2: election day. That's a sacred day to me. That's what

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Speaker 2: we have a lot of people with the early voting.

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Speaker 2: You know, we have voting for almost a month at

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Speaker 2: it to be, you know, extremely convenient. I will note obviously,

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Speaker 2: on election day you must go to your assigned polling place,

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Speaker 2: come and vote the Early Vote Center. So many times

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Speaker 2: we see families coming together so where they might be

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Speaker 2: it's it's extremely convenient. And the hours that we have

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Speaker 2: I will note we're open today and tomorrow from seven

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Speaker 2: shortest hours we have by state law. We're open from

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Speaker 1: The board Cherry Poland with all the event of early voting,

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Speaker 1: But how is this changing how you tabulate the elections?

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Speaker 1: And normally you're sitting around waiting for the results to

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Speaker 1: How's that changed your job? And also when the results

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Speaker 2: A great question. You know, in the state of Ohio,

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Speaker 2: we are permitted election officials are permitted to process those

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Speaker 2: vote by mail ballots as soon as they come in.

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Speaker 2: You have a handful of states that won't allow the

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Speaker 2: But in Ohio, we can verify all the information that's

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Speaker 2: we receive it. Once we determine that that vote by

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Speaker 2: It scanned, it's not tabulated, it's scanned, and the cast

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Speaker 2: then the ballot is stored in a secure facility here

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Speaker 2: at the Ware of Elections. Then on election night, as

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Speaker 2: soon as the polls closed at seven point thirty one PM,

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Speaker 2: we then hit the tabulate button, so the no ballots

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Speaker 2: to do those acts of preparation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, scam, get him ready to go, so that makes

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Speaker 1: the results come in here. And that's a big question here,

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Speaker 1: Sherry Poland. Is it's not about you know, free and

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Speaker 1: open elections and exercising your constitutional right to cast your

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Speaker 1: case may be. This is not about that. This is

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Speaker 1: about Brian Combs, our assistant news director wants to know

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Speaker 1: what time he can go home on Tuesday Tuesday night.

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Speaker 2: Again, I don't have a crystal ball that would that

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Speaker 2: We mentioned the early votes best early in person and

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Speaker 2: that's because our voting equipment is not connected to the internet.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it doesn't they don't even have the capability

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Speaker 2: So we'll usually we have a few early pickup locations

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Speaker 2: can have some results trickling in early, you know, usually

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Speaker 2: between eight thirty and nine, but the majority of those

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Speaker 2: when we start to see you know, most of the

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Speaker 2: again we always hope to be at one hundred percent,

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Speaker 2: you know, before before eleven o'clock. We know it's a

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Speaker 2: hitting that refresh button. But you know, a latch and

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Speaker 2: officials will never trade you know, security and accuracy for speed.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha.

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Speaker 2: I'll just have to be a little bit patient to

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Speaker 2: make sure the results coming in are accuracy.

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Speaker 1: I know you have last minute preparations. You got to

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Speaker 1: in it. You got to go make sure the voting machines,

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Speaker 1: everything's ready to go. You're a busy lady. I always

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Speaker 1: appreciate it talking to you and enjoy our conversations and

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Speaker 1: appreciate what you do for democracy. It's an important thing,

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Speaker 1: even especially in off years when you have lower turnout

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Speaker 1: all the best, Jerry Poland thanks again for coming on

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Speaker 1: the show. How about a nice quiet Tuesday, does that

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Speaker 2: That sounds wonderful to me.

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Speaker 1: It's fuzz you've seen some stuff, yeah we have.

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Speaker 2: But we have a great team here at the Board

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Speaker 2: of Election. I cannot praise the staff here and now

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Speaker 2: if it's truly a place where Democrats and Republicans come

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Speaker 2: together to do the people's work.

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Speaker 1: So got to have a shout out to them all

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Speaker 1: the best, Cherry, be well, good luck, Thank you much,

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Speaker 1: Sherry poland that as you're a director Hamiley County Board

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Speaker 1: of Elections and love it. She's great. She's just a

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Speaker 1: So six thirty am Tuesday, if you're an in person voter,

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Speaker 1: And I have no idea what to tell Brian Combs.

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Speaker 1: This is all about Colms is like, Hey, you're talking

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Speaker 1: to Sherry Paul. Ask her when she thinks I can

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Speaker 1: go home. It's all about him, you know this, this

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Speaker 1: democracy of two hundred and fifty years still a long time.

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Speaker 1: And we tabulate the elections and sometimes they're contentious, Sometimes

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Speaker 1: in the odds. We had a lot of contentious elections.

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Speaker 1: Along came early voting, kind of eased the process, made

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Speaker 1: We're not going to get that all Brian Colmbs wants

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Speaker 1: to know. Despite all of that history, despite it being

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Speaker 1: the cornerstone of our constitution, of our wal life here

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Speaker 1: in America, one person, one vote, all Brian Colmbs cares

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Speaker 1: about is what time he can go home and have

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Speaker 1: a beer. Scott's Loan Show, seven hundred World