Bloomfield Township Election Commission Meeting January 25, 2024

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   This is the Bloomfield Township Election Commission meeting of Thursday, January 25th, 2024. If we could please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Our Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic which stands, our nation, under God, indivisible, liberty, and justice for all. Okay, our first item on the agenda is public comment. I'm seeing nobody who wants to speak to public comment or close public comment. Next item on the agenda, by the way, I want to do to confirm attendance. It's not on here, but there's a quorum present. One person is missing, Val Murray, who could not attend today. Neil Barnett and I, two other members, make a quorum. Okay, let's review the next item is to approve election commission meeting minutes of October 26th. Salute. Support that. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. And our next item is not a voting item, but item three reviews much of the background information concerning the upcoming election. It is standard materials in here, which reflect the ballot, the voting dates, the deadlines for different items that are coming up for the 2024 primary legal notice. that we have posted in May, which appeared in the newspapers last week and yesterday. Any questions, Neil, about the items that are contained in the packet? No. Okay, great. So item number four is to appoint the election inspectors. Included is the summary of the inspectors. And I can advise that all of these inspectors have completed their applications. They have all completed a background check that's required by the Election Commission concerning a criminal background check. And they all are fully legally qualified to perform their roles as election workers. And included with the resolution is, of course, the delegation to the clerk, myself, to make adjustments as necessary as people's schedules change and to fill in the vacancies that still remain.

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   It is standard materials in here, which reflect the ballot, the voting dates, the deadlines for different items that are coming up for the 2024 primary legal notice. that we have posted in May, which appeared in the newspapers last week and yesterday. Any questions, Neil, about the items that are contained in the packet? No. Okay, great. So item number four is to appoint the election inspectors. Included is the summary of the inspectors. And I can advise that all of these inspectors have completed their applications. They have all completed a background check that's required by the Election Commission concerning a criminal background check. And they all are fully legally qualified to perform their roles as election workers. And included with the resolution is, of course, the delegation to the clerk, myself, to make adjustments as necessary as people's schedules change and to fill in the vacancies that still remain. And the resolution for this purpose is behind item number four. Any questions about that? No. Okay. Can you entertain a motion? So move. Support that. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. Item number five. Moving on to is for the resolution. delegating election commission duties to the clerk and authorize assistance for items that may come up during the next couple of weeks as it relates to tasks to prepare for the election that resolution is also in the packet any questions about that no make a motion for the passive resolution support all those in favor aye all right um next is item number six this is a is a new item uh the the law now permits an early absentee voting counting board for the full processing of absentee ballots which includes the the running them through the tabulator the tabulator will not be you know those the polls for the absentee voting

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   to make adjustments as necessary as people's schedules change and to fill in the vacancies that still remain. And the resolution for this purpose is behind item number four. Any questions about that? No. Okay. Can you entertain a motion? So move. Support that. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. Item number five. Moving on to is for the resolution. delegating election commission duties to the clerk and authorize assistance for items that may come up during the next couple of weeks as it relates to tasks to prepare for the election that resolution is also in the packet any questions about that no make a motion for the passive resolution support all those in favor aye all right um next is item number six this is a is a new item uh the the law now permits an early absentee voting counting board for the full processing of absentee ballots which includes the the running them through the tabulator the tabulator will not be you know those the polls for the absentee voting counting board will not close until election day but for days in advance we are allowed to process completely process them run them through the tabulator again the polls can't be physically closed the computer programs don't permit that to happen until 8 p.m no sooner than 8 p.m on election day and we're looking for authorization this motion is to authorize the clerk myself to uh operate an early uh absolute voting counting board for the presidential primary and we have to do one of these for each election so we'll see these going forward every time okay make a motion that we uh pass the resolution my support all those in favor aye okay uh that's our last item any any questions or no what is this meeting it was yes yes sir thank you for being here i appreciate that um and i'll entertain a motion to adjourn so support those favored aye aye thank you