For this meeting, the Election Modernization Committee is convening by video conference via Zoom on the town's website, identifying how the public may join. Please note that the meeting is being recorded and that some identities are participating by video conference. If you turn on your videos, others will be able to see you. All the supporting materials were available on the town website as specified in the agenda. The public is encouraged to follow along using the agenda. For this meeting, I the chair will introduce each speaker on the agenda after they conclude their remarks. I will go down the list of members for comments inviting each by name to persist participate and provide a comment question or motion. For the public comment section, please direct yourselves to the to the chair and I will either see your hand raised or a chat comment and we will attempt to answer all the questions possible tonight before we conclude the public forum session of this meeting, which is intended to go no more than one hour. If it necessitates more, we'll provide for that. So I'd first like to introduce our town manager, Adam chapter lane. He'll give us an update on the town election preparation. Thank you, Jim. Good evening, everybody. I'm also joined here tonight by town council. Doug. I'm Can you hear me, Jim? I can hear you. Yes. Sorry, my computer is giving me weird mute, unmute messages. So I'll try to give a very brief update on the actions that the town has taken to date in regards to the June 6 election. But I think it's probably most important that Doug and I answer questions that the group has. So there's been obviously a lot of talk primarily about the postcard and the clerk's office working with the assistant town clerk worked with our normal printing vendor LHS, normal printing for the clerk's office for election related purposes, produced the postcard and my understanding is most folks in town have now received that postcard. So just as a refresher, I'm sure everybody here recalls, but this postcard will serve as a request form or an application for an early voting by mail ballot. Postage is already paid or return postage is already paid. So all resident and voter needs to do is sign the card, put it back in the mail, and that will serve as the request for the early voting by mail ballot. So we hope and anticipate that a lot of people will utilize this option so that we can have both a good turnout, but hopefully less people at the polls on June 6, just to increase the public health and safety of the day itself. We are also in preparation for what we again are hoping will be a large amount of votes by mail. Thank you, Jim. So that's a picture of the postcard. We are putting three drop boxes out in town, not necessarily not for the postcards we prefer you send the postcards by mail, but for the ballots, once they are mailed out. So we're putting one there there the locations went down in East Arlington corner Mass Avon Lake over in front of town Tavern on the winter street side one in front of town hall in the lower plaza so not up the stairs to town hall but on the brick portion of the plaza. And then in the heights Mass Avon Park, the corner where the clock is what used to be Brigham's then Digham's and now the optometrist's office. You see the signs right there is what will be placed on those boxes and the clerk's office being accompanied by a police officer will pick them up at regular intervals with the last pickup being just as polls close on June 6. So anybody who gets their ballot into that drop box before polls close will have their ballot counted on election day. So what we're what we're trying to do here is obviously make it as easy as possible for people to access both the ballot and then be able to return the ballot to the town. In no instance, having been required to place postage on either the application or the ballot itself. I should mention those drop boxes people can feel free to either place their already received absentee ballots into that drop box as well as the early voting by mail drop box the clerk's office will process and pick them up and process them in the same manner that record. I'll also add that today, some of you or most of you hopefully received this, we sent out a townwide Arlington alert, which is a townwide phone call, basically giving folks the update that I'm providing right now, calling their attention to this postcard making sure they understand that it is an important document. Our hope was to by getting the call out today that we would avoid the card finding its way into the recycling if people weren't familiar with what the card was. So we're really, you know, but via the card via the call via the drop boxes and via the continuing outreach will be doing trying to do as much as we can. Really an unprecedented amount in making the town, town residents and voters aware of the election and making the ease of accessing a ballot is easy as possible to shift to the other work that we've been doing. And a lot of this work has been falling on the select board's office as well as facilities health and human services and being assessed assisted by Jim O'Connor as our sort of expert warden on the scene. We've been figuring out how to most safely operate the polling places on June 6. So again, most of you have probably heard this, but we reduced the number of polling places from 10 to eight. So three precincts had their polling places moved and everybody who had their polling place moved has also received the postcard in the mail telling them and what their new voting location is. And the idea behind this was to try to reduce the differing amount of people interacting with one another but also most importantly reducing the amount of poll workers. We would need because we just we were already needing to work hard to get enough poll workers. So we wanted to keep as minimal amount of poll workers as possible. Again, to minimize the interactions of people on June 6. In terms of the physical layout, we will we have already purchased plexiglass shields that will be placed on all inspectors tables, I believe as well as the wardens table so that there will be a shield between poll workers and those coming to vote. We will have volunteers in the medical reserve core working outside guiding people and keeping themselves socially distanced while they may have to wait in line to enter the premises or even within the premises. Everything will be set up so that it is one way in one way out or not being the same so that we don't have people cross. You know no cross current people passing one another you'll enter from one door access your ballot vote at the at the voting table at certain intervals those voting tables will be sanitized. You'll place your ballot in the in the voting machine and then you'll be able to leave by another door. So there will be custodial staff on throughout the day sanitizing high contact surfaces sanitizing the voting tables and basically providing a disinfection and cleanliness throughout the day. All poll workers will be provided PPE health and human services has been working with the clerk's office to acquire all that PPE. There will be hand sanitizing stations upon entry and upon exit for those coming to vote. So we're really trying to make sure we put every possible precaution in place to keep people safe during Election Day. I feel like an important question I know that will be asked and Doug can provide the nuance on this but Governor Baker's order does require that people coming to vote wear a mask. However, we're not necessarily completely and entirely legally allowed to require someone to wear a mask and able in order to vote so we will have masks on hand to offer to folks to wear. But when I'm through I'll ask Doug to provide a little more nuance on that. So then the final thing I'll say is we focused a lot of attention on the postcard. We focused a lot of attention on making sure that we can safely conduct the election in person on June 6 and now we're going to turn to how we best publicize. So I think the postcard itself is good publicity for the election. The phone call today added to that and now I'm not sure actually sure if it's up yet but we will be putting a new sign on the the tall sign in front of town hall. We'll begin to use the variable message boards in town to alert people to the town election and then we'll also I know it's been suggested we'll be working to put up signage at housing corporation of Arlington properties the housing authority properties and also attempting to put up signage if if possible at grocery stores so we're very doing as much as we can again to call people's attention to the local election on June 6. So I guess with that I'll stop and if it's okay with Jim I'll ask Doug to provide you know with the accurate and appropriately nuanced answer to the mask question. I'd be happy to have that happen so let me get you're already unmuted. Good evening folks. I'll answer that mask question first and then I'll maybe provide a little bit I'll maybe set the table for what I'm sure some other questions that folks will have. With respect to the masks. The way that I interpret the intersection of these things is it's not the town of Arlington's position that a mask is required to vote. It's our position that the governor's order requiring folks to wear masks where they can't be six feet apart public spaces is valid and in effect. But we're not going to prevent people from voting if they don't have a mask. We're going to try to make sure that there are enough medical reserve core volunteers and masks available to provide people mask the poll and we're going to potentially advise people that you know you've got to wear a mask. We're going to try to make sure that APD and our health officials try to be as generous as they can with respect to making sure that people understand once in effect and not issuing fines. The goal if anybody doesn't have a mask is to provide them with if they don't have a mask and once unavailable the goal will be to get them to be able to vote as quickly as possible as isolated from folks as possible. And out of the facility as possible the polling location. If somebody is essentially, you know, intentionally trying to remain present in a polling location without wearing a mask where they're not there to engage in voting. I think that presents a different picture but the overall sort of story here is a mask is not a prerequisite to vote. A mask is required to be worn by the governor's order in all places open to the public. And so our premium is making sure that people get to vote in a safe as a man of a manner as possible. So I'm sure that there will be some issues come Election Day. I'll be one of the people prepared to try to address them as they come up, but that's the sort of more nuanced answer to the question about requiring masks to vote. With that, let me also just kind of try to set the table for some questions. One of the things that I want to recognize first is that the state and the legislature is doing the best that they can to help us engage in voting activities as safely as possible. All that being said, and I know there are a couple folks here, we're very familiar with our election systems and laws. This concept of absentee voting or the other concept, the application of absentee voting and quote unquote, early voting in this context is a really makeshift operation laid on top of a set of regulations and laws that didn't contemplate this situation. It's only by the special act of signed by the governor and drawn up by the legislature that we're able to engage in early voting in the manner that we are, and that some of the rules are a little bit unusual. I expect there are some folks who say, well, why on earth, for example, am I receiving an absentee ballot, when I asked for an early voting ballot, and the reality of it is because the absentee ballots and the early voting ballots are basically interchangeable for the purposes of this election only. And if whatever reason I'm enough early voting ballots, they are in some substance the same, and they can be used interchangeably for anybody. So as long as you're asked for an absentee ballot, or you asked for an early voting ballot, it doesn't really matter which one's used, only in the context of this election. Some of the folks we have who are most familiar with this stuff know that under ordinary circumstances, this wouldn't really be considered early voting. This is early voting that goes up until the close the polls, the date of the election. The same thing with absentee voting. Obviously, under normal circumstances, there's a little bit more scrutiny applied to the limited circumstances in which you can engage in absentee voting. The Special Act essentially provides a pretty broad cover for folks who want to use an absentee ballot, basically, any reasonable concern about their health due to COVID-19. So those are things that are not, every issue that flows from these things is not well spelled out in the Special Act. These things weren't necessarily designed to go together. They don't necessarily fit perfectly with the regulations that are in place for normal absentee voting and normal early voting. So with that, I'm happy to try to answer as many questions as I can. I hope folks will understand and appreciate that the scope of potential questions is really, really broad here. So I'll try to be, I've tried to prepare myself as best as I can, and maybe some things that I'm going to have to say, I'll take some notes and get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you. Okay, we'll start with the public comment and questions section now. And a few questions I received via email. One question which was partly answered by Town Council Heim already was, we received our ballots, the question of the language on them states that we can only vote absentee if we have a physical disability or religious beliefs prevented or we're not in town on election day. And can we use the absentee ballots legally. I responded to that question by email. And in fact, because of chapter 45 of the acts of 2020, all voters can vote by mail by absentee or early ballot they're one in the same. And so yes, you can vote eagle legally am I correct Doug. You're correct 90% of it Jim so the answer is kind of two fold one the section for the special act of chapter 45. I'm sorry. Yeah, chapter 45 of the acts of 2020 specifically creates a new category of absentee valid absentee voter reasons. And we have our ballots from the state we can't just make up new ballots that have a new category in them. So, the ballots were created by the Secretary of State's office, before this would have been passed. And the short of it is, is that yes, there is a sort of catch all provision for folks with COVID-19 concerns to vote by absentee ballot that subtle nuance that I would offer an addition is that technically speaking, folks who signed up for early voting and folks who asked for an absentee ballot asked for something different. The absentee ballot folks requested an absentee ballot should vote with their absentee ballot. It will be accepted with this catch all provision. Some early voting folks may receive an absentee ballot, instead of a early voting ballot for those folks, either one will work, and the clerks are required to mark early voting voters with an EV next to their name in the system. The clerks need a citation to it. It's again the same special act. Chapter 45 of the acts of 2020, I believe it's section five. See talks about the ability to substitute absentee ballots for those folks who requested early voting. And the section following discusses demarcating those voters as early voters. So yes, you can use your absentee ballot for if you ask for an absentee ballot. If you ask for early voting ballot, you can use either early voting or absentee. Can everyone see the absentee ballot in my shared screen. One specific thing on section two is the ballot can be requested for all elections this year, or all general elections, or a specific election. And that's the big difference between your early voting ballot that you could request from the Secretary of State, because if you ask for an absentee ballot that would also cover the elections for later this year. And if, if I'm correct, Doug, is there any legislation to change the procedure for the remainder of the year? That's right, Jim. So right the chapter 45 of the acts of 2020 only covers election activity up into June 30. So I believe that there's an effort to essentially afford similar flexibility to voters for coming elections in the fall. But right now, this early voting, this method of early voting and the special sort of reason to vote by absentee ballot are only valid through June 30. Okay, another part of this question from this individual was we received our early voting by mail postcard. It states that requests for ballots must be in the election office by noon time, the day before the election, June 5. They questioned, would that be enough time to get the ballot out to the voter by election day? Do you want to discuss that? Sure. So that is what the card says. And the reason the card says that is that's what the law says. So the same act chapter 45 of the acts of 2020 essentially outlines that folks have to be able to put in this request until noon, the business day before the election. That's obviously a really, really short turnaround. But that's what the law says. As folks might remember I said previously, this is one of the challenges with sort of trying to create the flexibility that we have here. It's a little bit jury rigged. So it's not easy to see how this is going to be done perfectly in the sense that if folks get in their applications for early voting noon, the day before the election, we're going to have to scramble to get those folks ballots. But that's what the law requires. I strongly encourage folks to all get in their ballots, the request for early voting as soon as possible. I believe that the reason that this stipulation was made of the day before the election for the early ballots is essentially the same as what's covered for the absentee voter application. An individual requesting an absentee ballot application can deliver it to town hall up to noon time the day before the election and allow the election officers at the clerk's office to give you the absentee ballot so that you can complete it right there. Unfortunately, we don't know yet when town hall will be open. So the in-person options are essentially out of the question. I received notification that one of our members, Adam Battak has a question. So let me unmute you Adam and feel free to ask. Thank you. My question was around the topic we were just discussing. I understand from what you're saying that everybody who submits a request for absentee ballots or for an early voting ballot, regardless of whether it's for an early voting reason or for an absentee reason, it is eligible to submit an absentee ballot that we're using those as the same thing. That's fine. I'm not troubled by that nuance at all. In fact, I submitted the early ballot request and received an absentee ballot, which comes with what looks to be an official document from, I'm guessing the SEC's office or maybe it's set by law, explaining the eligibility to submit an absentee ballot, which as you pointed out is does not take into account the chapter 45 of the Act of 2020. That creates a lot of confusion because I now basically have a document that says I'm not eligible to submit my ballot, that I'm totally eligible to submit and we all agree and understand that. I'm not worried about me. I'm worried about the voters in Arlington getting this and looking at it and thinking, oh, I thought I was eligible but here it comes with this formal document that says I'm not. I guess I can't use this. I'm going to throw it out and I'll have to go in and vote in person and now they're annoyed with the town and they're showing up on election day when we were kind of hoping they'd be able to mail it in. Is there any plan from the town to try to rectify that communication issue that to make it more clear to voters that despite the presence of that language that in fact they are totally eligible and that they should submit. I would be the assistant town clerk here that would be that would be great but Doug I don't know if you want to if you have a sense of whether or not we legally can issue such a message. So, yeah, we can certainly issue a message to folks. I'm clarifying that they're allowed to vote with their absentee ballot. There had been a notice about this. That went out quite some time ago. We can reissue that notice on the website. There are other things that we can do. I'm trying to develop a FAQ response to post on the town clerk's page. I don't know if he's answered either in a forum like this, or by the clerk's office directly. The issue of course is, as you would expect that, you know, we're sort of required to put these doubts together in a certain way. And again, the special act is what, you know, provides some sort of flexibility on this specific point. Every single one of these details was thought out by the state. I think it's still very helpful and I'm very grateful for the provision that they provided us. But it's, I appreciate your comment that this can result in some folks wondering whether or not they can, they can submit it or not. Like I said, I think that from my perspective, we can certainly issue further guidance on this saying, you know, you're eligible to vote with this absentee ballot. If you requested early voting, you don't have to provide that after David. Yeah, it would have been ideal if I came with the ballot, but even something that comes after the ballot I guess is almost as good. Thank you. The second category of questions pertain to handicap access. The question was raised, will there be designated handicapped parking for those that need it at the polls. So Jim, we'll have the, I mean, you've, I may think you've been to every polling location, so maybe you could answer better, but I'm nearly certain each of the elementary schools as well as town hall have designated handicap parking. So I think the answer is yes, we can certainly confirm that. Okay. The third category of questions that were received ahead of time from Patty Muldoon, who is a warden from precinct six, can each precinct get an electric letter opener to open the ballot envelopes to avoid more connection. Yeah, I guess I could take that under advisement. I don't have a good sense of how much one of those costs. So I hate to commit to say, say yes, I mean it sounds like something automated will need to happen if we're going to have what literally might be thousands of absentee and early voting by mail ballots. So, yeah, let's see, let's let's let's figure out what we can do in there. So another question was raised, will parking meters be disabled on election day and I think only polling place that all affect this town hall. So could you answer that. Sure. Yeah, so as of right now we have decided to suspend parking meter payments until at least June 1. That doesn't cover through June 6, but we have suspended them through June 1. You know, sitting here tonight, I think it's likely that it will extend through through the election. We may, you know, I'll also weigh whether or not we just want to suspend it on election day. Yeah, I think on that Saturday anyways but yeah, I think, you know, likelihood, we will, you know, we, we have two things we're trying to do have people not touch surfaces that they don't have to be touching. We're trying to reduce the amount of people coming and going from the police department, which includes the parking control officers, and as businesses are going to start to reopen. And I don't think that, you know, that the meters are there for turnover and I, my senses as things slowly reopen turnover won't be as hard to accomplish without the meters running so that's a long winded answer. I, I'll take it under advisement and I think the likelihood is that will extend the meter suspension past June 6. Another question is, what is the social media outreach plan to recruit new poll workers since Patty was informed that there wasn't a full complement of staff yet. So there is no such plan. I know the select board's office has been working as they normally do to recruit poll workers. I think as of yesterday, Jim, we had learned that they were needing 11 workers. So the select board's office crafted an advertisement reviewed by town council and that advertisement has been shared. So I don't know what responses have been received to that yet. And I can talk with the public information officer about potentially sharing that advertisement on on social media but as of right now there is no social media plan for the hiring of poll workers. Okay. And then there was further question. Is there a plan to train the new poll workers I know we discussed that. We do have new poll workers I think we should probably have some sort of a mini training prior to the day to the election. I think we're going to do a training for all poll workers due to the unique nature of this election. So yes, I think existing and new will put a training together. Okay, we have no further questions or were emailed. You may use the chat or for those that are present, you can indicate you'd like to raise your hand or ask a question and I'll be happy to entertain anyone who would like to do so. Any questions from the attendees. Any comments from the attendees. Okay, hold on. I'm going to raise. Micaiah Healy has raised her hand. So Micaiah please feel free. I think your mic is muted on your end. Okay. Can you hear me. Yes. All right. I just wanted to say thank you so much to the gym, Adam to Doug for all of your thoughtfulness and I know it doesn't get old but I just needed to. It might get old I don't know, you might get old and being thanked for all of this work that you're doing. Particularly the thoughtfulness of the call that you did. Thank you so much for joining us today and getting folks access to masks. Just really great work. And I just was thinking about the pull the drop the secure drop boxes. And wondering if there could be some sort of sticker or some lamination, or some message saying. If you need a ballot, you can always, you know, you can always request one at the, you know, at the web in Arlington Massachusetts town or whatever just to. Yeah, just complete the process the whole circle that if you accidentally throw away your postcard, or if you haven't requested it right now, you can you can still do that you can still vote so just an idea. I don't know if it's very possible. It's only three drop boxes I know, but just to be thoughtful about people who might have missed that opportunity. Thank you. Jim, go ahead. I have a couple of questions. The drop boxes in the community. Will they be at wheelchair user height. Adam, Jim, do you want me to answer Makaya's first or. Yeah, we that everyone should wait until I call upon them so that I'm sorry doesn't get funneled with too many questions at once is the answer Makaya's first I guess that would be best. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I just I just want I sorry. Makaya, I think that's a very good idea. I think the signs that say ballots only no mail have already been fabricated. So let me see how we can best apply it to the boxes but I think that's a very good idea even if it's something simple like you suggested that says to request a ballot contact the clerk's office or you know whatever the appropriate we can figure out with the appropriate languages but I think that's a very good and doable suggestion. To Paul's question.  And related to that. I assume that they're of substantial size, so that they can't be stolen. Yeah, so there, Jim, could you put could you bring the picture of it back up on the screen. I thought it was up there but I guess it was not. I was looking at it. Yeah, there. Oh, do it now. So it's a pretty, it's a pretty beefy box I'm sure a very strong person could could pick it up but we're also securing them to fabricated concrete pads that they'll be fabricated to add DPW and then placed at their three locations. So I don't want to be so bold as to suggest that it is impossible to remove them, but I think it would be a very challenging task for a human or maybe even two to remove it. Jim, I think the sidewalk or the street. I can answer that, Adam, if you like. Yeah, you know, you know, he and Dan Warren from the public works department have been working very hard what you see at the bottom of the dropbox is a brown background. That's actually part of the concrete form that is going to be placed. It is about half a ton. That's going to be placed on the ground, and then altered into that will be the box itself. So they assure me that unless you bring a crane or your mighty mouse, you're not going to be able to move that box. And let me confirm, Paul, I think we'll have them facing the sidewalk, but let me confirm that. That would be for visually impaired folks. That would be the preference. So facing in inwards towards towards the sidewalk. Okay. Yeah, okay. I think I given where we're locating them. I don't think that driving by would be doable so I'm assuming it's inward but I'll double check that. Perfect. Thank you. Okay, our next question is from Kim highs. So Kim, if you could, I just unmuted you so you can ask your question. Hi, I was wondering about the number of poll workers per precinct. That was one question. And the one concern is if there are only three, as Peter just reminded me, it's going to be difficult to accommodate breaks for the poll workers. We have award men to poll workers per precinct. I hope there will be enough time for breaks or enough extra staff to accommodate occasional breaks. Also, I understood you to say that you are currently short 11 poll workers. So that's how many are trying to recruit. Is that correct. So last I heard we were short 11. We do have an ongoing discussion about how many relief workers we we want if any at all. I do think your point is well taken. Jim and I have been talking and it seems as though wardens can relieve one another, since there will be mostly three except at one location to wardens at each. So it really really used to be legally one warden per polling location, not per precinct, but you're right for the inspectors strategizing the right ability to give people a break is important. So I don't, I don't know exactly how many more than 11 were recruiting, but I think the number will be at least slightly higher than 11. Okay, the next question is from Yuhan Sonan. So I'll unmute you. Okay. Hi, I'm Yuhan. Now, in preparation for our election and potentially for the national election. We dropped by just sort of talking about drop boxes with three ballot drop boxes have cameras so that there's at least a camera to make sure that there's if there's an audit later on. There's something to be seen I'm sure the one inside town hall probably has that but the other two and have a follow up to that. So we've talked about the ability to place cameras we haven't procured cameras yet. So let me let me follow up on that, you know, there's always a balance between the security that's obvious as you're suggesting and people feeling as though they're being surveilled and what, you know, what that footage could be could be used for but let me see how challenging it would be to mount a couple pole mounted cameras to achieve what you're suggesting. Yeah, I'm just thinking purely for the audit afterwards. If there's anything going on like the, you know, the EAC the Election Committee suggests doing it, just as a CYA measure. The second one gets to maybe a sticky. Maybe it's not a sticky question is what happens when the clerk in this case is a candidate and an integral part of the chain of custody of the balance. And what provisions are being made to work on chain of custody with someone on the ballot. Who's integral to the process. So the keys for the keys for the ballot boxes will be kept by the police department, and every time the clerk goes to pick the assistant town clerk goes or staff goes to pick them up. They're being made by a police officer from pick up into the police cruiser to drop off the town hall. So we're we're trying, we're trying to provide that sort of that that coverage to make sure that there is management of chain of custody. Okay, that's from that's from the dropouts itself to town hall but then there's all the you know preamble and postamble to that too. And on that I don't know if Doug wants to chime in. It's an elected office that is also responsible for the conduct of elections. I, I don't know that we have any ability to divest the, you know, the, the sitting person I mean what this is a unique situation given the assistant town clerk is running for the position but where every three years the clerk was running for reelection and managing the election piece. Yeah, it's tricky. I don't Doug if you have any thoughts you like that. I just want to let folks know that, you know, I did speak with folks from the elections division from the State Ethics Commission, not because anybody articulated a specific concern or anybody specifically, but just to confirm what is sort of a, what sort of for a long time been an unstated understanding given that what Mr chapter lane said it's true. You know, everything three years we've had an elected official running for the same office who's one of their jobs is to preside over the election so there's no status quo. There's no ordinary provision for having someone in the clerk's office be refused or, you know, removed from some aspect of the duties. I think that, to some extent Jim you might be able to speak to how the ballots are actually counted at these precincts. And that you know there are some checks and balances in terms of, you know, the select board administrator has traditionally, you know, made sure that things are running smoothly at precinct locations with respect to not only people arriving at the pole but the count. Jim, do you want to offer anything additional on that score. Yes, once, once the ballots have been dropped in the box or delivered to the town hall by mail, the clerk's office records them on the VRIS system, the voter registration information system. It's indicated that the ballot having been sent out has now been returned. Those ballots are still sealed because the outer envelope. There is actually three envelopes the white envelope gets mailed to the individual voter. Then there's a manila envelope inside that has a mailing address of town hall or it can be dropped off. Within that is another envelope which is signed and sealed by the voter. That envelope comes to us completely sealed. It's never been tampered with. And that's why the question came up from Patty about a machine to open all these envelopes because we sit there with a trusty little opener and open one envelope after another. Anything that would automate that process would make it easier. But once the ballots are put in, I want to answer another question that came up as part of this. Hong Chen, who is a warden from Precinct 18, asked a question, if somebody mailed in a ballot and then got an early ballot, would they be able to vote twice? And the answer is no. Because once the ballots are checked in, the first ballot received would be the ballot that would be recorded, as far as I know, at the clerk's office. Once the ballots are delivered to the precinct, if somebody comes in to vote, we check the list if they've already voted. Then in the case only of absentee voters, and Doug, you'll have to add to this at the end with the provisions of the new act. But if an absentee voter comes in the day of the election and wants to change their mind, they can actually vote in person by completing an affidavit. I believe we now have our clerk, our assistant clerk. Dennis, is that you? Well, it was by telephone. In any case, continue. If somebody submitted two ballots, the clerk's office would first catch it and it would never get out to the polls. Once it does get to the polls, we'll only record one ballot. We, in the past, have had a few people that didn't realize they mailed in their ballot and then came in to vote. And we said, well, we've already received your ballot and it's been counted. And we can show them, because we pull up the envelope, let's just pretend this is Manila. And I look at it and it says, that's your name, isn't it? We already recorded your ballot. So there won't be any duplicate ballots or an inability to vote twice. Just see if Janice is who's here. Janice, is that you? I've unmuted you. The telephone number ending in 815. Do you identify yourself? Okay, well, whoever it is, they're quiet. So, Doug, did you want to follow up on that? I just wanted to add, I think that was a very solid summary, Jim, but I just wanted to add that, yes, per section four of the Acts of 2020, chapter 45 of the Acts of 2020, you can. Somebody, there's, I think there's some questions in the chat. I've been trying to sort of follow them a little bit. Some of them are getting captured by what folks are expressing otherwise and what you've said. It is possible that someone asked for an absentee ballot, received one, and sent it in. If they want to vote in person, they can do so under the special Acts, but they have to do so before their ballot is counted. I'm understanding none of these ballots get counted until the polls close. Is that correct, Jim? The ballots are actually counted during the day of the election. Okay. We process the ballots by opening the envelopes and the AccuVote machine treats them just like if a voter came in. We take them to the check-in, have them check it off on the list. Then we go to the checkout, have them check off the list, so we have a dual checks and balances, and then the ballots are entered into the AccuVote machine and counted just as if somebody did it in person. I see. Okay. We have an expert amongst us and a member of our committee, so I'd like to unmute Leslie Waxman, who is Cambridge election official. Yeah, I can confirm that, as Jim said, ballots are processed throughout the day and with absentee in any election, not even just under the special rule, but in any election if a voter beats, we call the ballot to the polls. Basically, if the voter came in person to vote before their absentee was actually checked off on the voting list, they still can vote. If they come after their ballot has already been checked off on the voting list, then they cannot vote. With early voting, usually the rule is that if you cast an early ballot, you cannot vote in person on election day. I haven't looked, I don't know if they've made an exception for early voting, being able to beat your ballot to the polls for this election. I would be surprised that they had honestly, but maybe they did. But normally in a normal election that has both early voting and absentee, an early voter, once they've cast their early voting ballot, that's the only ballot that can count.  I believe that that section only applies to absentee ballots, so I think you're interested. Okay, another question that we received. Unfortunately, we don't have our clerk present. I did ping her and ask her to get on, but if anybody knows this answer, did the town clerk's office send out ballots in March for the April election, since they normally send them out three weeks prior. I had asked that actually at the last meeting. Janice Weber had said they hadn't mailed any ballots yet when they when basically when we knew that the election was going to get because they were still waiting to get them back from the printer so they didn't mail any ballots. I had requested, I think I had requested my absentee a while ago. And I just got it this past week so they hadn't mailed any ballots until now. Thank you Leslie. You're assistant acting clerk. Another question is, are we getting the new machines for this election, or for the next election and my understanding is that the requisition for the new machines won't be here until the September primary. Adam, can you answer that, or Greg. Yeah, I had this at a previous meeting, and Janice said that while they had the new machines they made a decision to not utilize them for the town election to wait until the September prime state primary. Okay. Okay, does anyone else have a question or would like to express an opinion of sorts. Jennifer is Jennifer suits. Go ahead Jennifer. Okay, I have actually two questions. One quick. So we're cutting down the number of poll workers by half so usually you'd have two people to check you in and then two people check you out. And I was wondering if there are any security worries about having only one person in each role is that is that is the reason that we normally have two people because of volume or for security issues. One of the provisions is because with a primary, we have a representative of both the Republican and the Democratic Party, or someone who was unenrolled so there aren't two people that are from one party. And that would benefit to having two inspectors at the check in because as the people check in, then the other person at the table, not only is observing that but also ends out a ballot and offers a privacy sleeve. I don't have a magnifier if they need that. Many times when we've had workers on breaks and we don't have relief, we've been able to accomplish it with one person. But Doug, do you want to tackle that. Actually I have another thing for Doug. I, I had been told that there's sort of some, you know, concerns about using the chat feature for public meetings if you also want to talk about that quickly. Sure. So, let me let me answer the election piece of it first. Here's all I can say with respect I'm not a, I'm not an election worker. I've never worked in the town clerk's office. So I appreciate the wonderful expertise that Jim Leslie and a lot of the folks here bring their their experience and expertise working at the polls and supervising pieces of our elections. And I know there's a bunch of other folks on here who also work as boardings and other capacities. I did speak with Michelle Tastinari of from the Secretary of State's office who's the legal counsel we had a robust and sometimes tense discussion about consolidating precincts about how many poll workers are necessary. And weighing those against the concerns of our public health officials are not something that we're going to be able to have a perfect solution for everybody. I don't understand, it's not my understanding that this is a insurmountable set of concerns, because as we've already talked about we could, we're using what the law prescribes to be the required number of workers. Is it better in an ordinary circumstance to have more I'm sure, and the most circumstances probably is, but from a security standpoint it also means that there's fewer people working at the polls there's fewer people for us to sort of make sure that we've got trained up and ready to go. So I'm sure there's ups and downs to it but I've confirmed that this is, this is a, you know, an option that's afforded to us and indeed we could have either consolidated more, or we could have had fewer wardens at each location. With respect to the chat function. I just want folks to know that it gets a little bit hard sometimes to make sure that we're capturing the group chat. In the record, and how we should treat that for open meetings, whether we should, you know, save a copy of the group chat as part of it. The biggest issue that we have is making sure that people don't abuse the group chat which is obviously not happening here. I do generally discourage the group chat because it's not as transparent as making sure that all the discussion can not only be seen and heard by the folks who are on the camera but also keep in mind there may be some folks who are participating by phone who, from an equity standpoint may not have access to a computer with the camera, or the zoom platform or Wi-Fi or whatever, and that they can't follow along with what's going on in the group chat. So, my recommendation is you try not to use it. I can understand in this context why it's useful to try to have an efficient meeting. Jennifer, do I answer your question? Jennifer, I'll unmute you so you can answer. We can't hear you, Jennifer. Sorry. Yes, thank you. It's a keyboard issue. Sorry. Okay, I will tell you that I requested that we enable the chat feature so that questions could be asked and I would have the ability with all the participants present of which right now I believe there's 35. So, trying to see everybody as they raise their hand, you know, you can miss someone and this gives me a little bit of order and it did not save the chat. There is an option to save it to the website zoom so that we can store it later. I hope it's helpful to know that for all the folks who can see the chat, all of these questions and comments have been addressed by Mr. O'Connor in some form or another. So, I think we're in perfectly safe territory here, but I just note that for future meetings that it can be hard for folks on the phone to observe and see what's going on. Oh, I see what you mean. Okay. On your screen, can everybody see the page it says elections and voting find my voter registration status. No, it's still just your directory. Okay, one. There you go. Okay, this is a very useful page if anyone did not receive notification via a card requesting that they can go about and can apply for an app, an early ballot, the state website, Secretary Galvin has done an incredible job in enabling people to check their voter status. On this page, all you need to do is put in your first and last name, your birth date and the zip code with which you last registered can then in fact confirm your voter status and learn where your precinct is and information about it. I gathered information about this to share with everyone here. A big change has occurred this year with the Secretary of State's Office as well through the registry motor vehicles. If you change your registration address, it's an opt out option where you have to opt out have a notification to your local municipality as to the change of your address. Right now that means that once you change your address, your town will be notified that you've moved new town will be notified and they'll automatically add you to their voter list. You still need to get a notification by acknowledgement, which should come in two to three weeks from that date and confirming that the registrar in Arlington has posted your name to the voter list, but there are various resources. And so I placed them up here. Wait a minute, we just got a new person. Take care of the admin. There's also an option and this is an exciting opportunity for young members of the high school who graduated. And if before the 27th of May, registered to vote and correct me if I'm wrong Leslie, if they pre registered to vote. They would be eligible vote on the June 6 election. Because the understanding I have under the early registration or pre registration format, those that are 16 or 17 and pre register and information is kept at the town clerk's office at the time when they turn 18, they are eligible to vote. Yeah, you, they have 18 by election day in order to vote and then their voter registration will get processed throughout the year it will get processed when they turn 18. If they turn 18 after the deadline to register but before the election process on the date that's the deadline to register. So then I am corrected if they registered by the 27th, it would be able to vote on the 6th of their birthday was January 1st or June 1st. Yes. Yes. Okay. By 18 by by election day. Okay, so there's also some pages I'll try to see if we can put them up on the town website as a reflector of features that the town offers or the secretary of state offers, because of the fact that town hall is closed. It makes it much easier to use online registration form. The only requirement that you have to have to register online is that you have to have driver's license to submit for verification and absent of that, your name on the voter list will be indicated. You need to show an ID in order to vote. And we do that frequently with new voters. Can I clarify that? Can I clarify that you need a you need a RMV ID driver's license or a state ID or a permit in order to register to vote online but in order to register to vote by mail you can just use the last four digits of your social security number you don't need to have an RMV ID. Oh, okay. So I furnace, I these up so that perhaps might serve some purpose for people that would like to share this information with others. Are there any more questions before we conclude the answer and question part of this meeting? Okay, then. We still have a few agenda items to complete.  And I thank you, Adam and Doug for your presence at the meeting and for your assistance in answering all these questions. I did appreciate the reverse 911 one out today, while residents to let them know that there was a postcard that should have been received to request and an early ballot. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say thank you and it's pretty normal that all of us get the benefit of wonderful volunteers in Arlington who are smart and constructive. That's not abnormal, but this group has been particularly helpful in what's been a very unusual and trying circumstance so I appreciate all the hard work by all the folks on the collection modernization committee. A lot of folks who have just been submitting questions and comments to help us, you know, sharpen our pencils and try to try to do the best job we can. Thank you guys. Thank you. So we walking me to stay on. But at this time I'm going to call upon our expert survey manager, Maxwell Palmer, who's going to give a presentation on the results of the survey. And so, Max, you can share your screen now. All right, I'm just going to share a couple quick results with all of you, which are going to look very familiar to what we saw back in January or February. The only real difference to what we have here is that we now have the full complete survey data about twice as many respondents as we had before. The first thing to dial in on our sort of difficulties of polling places. And here I've broken it down and consolidated precincts into the actual locations where they vote. And that these are too small to read on your screens now I'll send them. I'll send them out to be distributed after the meeting. It doesn't matter and Pierce, just like last time, stand out to us as problem polling places or polling places where people are reporting more problems, essentially parking and location. Generally very low numbers, very low number of people reporting any issues at all. And they do what tends to be about parking by far more common than anything else as we see in this top panel. But again, the top of this axis is about 1015% so not overwhelming but the most common. So that's just breaking it down across locations. As I said, chestnut manner appears being the only ones that really stand out there. So things overall by age. I know this one is very small to read on the shared zoom screen. Overall across each age group, relatively low levels of difficulty are being reported. Majorities of people saying no difficulty at all each age group, location parking and polling hours stand out as the most common issues. I'll send out all through some sort of top line numbers for all of this as well. And the third thing we looked at, and this is the same result, essentially as we saw in February is looking at support for lowering the voting age. And let me see if I can make this easier to read. And that one. Overall, among about 25% of people don't have any opinion on this 50% are opposed and 25% support it. We break it up by age group the only young people 18 to 24, do support it people 25 to 34 about split. The majority LL some majority is opposed to lowering the voting age. And just to note, most respondents on the survey tend to be in these older age categories there's a very, very small number of 1824 year olds, compared to any other age group here. There's also some comments that I think are worth. Maybe looking into a little bit at future meetings. There are some particular circumstances and issues that worth going through a little bit in the future. But overall from these questions we're seeing, you know, definitely a couple polling places that should be thought about in terms of issues of getting there and parking and all. But overall, I think generally people having good experiences voting Arlington. That's an excellent presentation. Thank you. Do any members of the committee have a question of max that you'd like to raise Leslie. I don't have any questions now. Okay. I'm going to unmute the members so that, you know, just patient if somebody's talking and that way you can have a free form here. Walter. You have any questions. Nothing. Nice job. Jennifer. No, I'm fine. No question. Thanks. All. No, I don't have any questions. Logan. No, thank you. Thank you. Okay. Jim, anybody that I missed. Jim. I don't have any questions. I think it was awesome. Yeah, no, Jim. I think that was a question. Yes, Patrick. I'm trying to try to Adam has got a question. I was just trying to get through it. Adam. Okay, go ahead. Any questions. Thanks. I actually, I had, I'd like to be able to look at the information and think about it a little. Yeah. I just thought we had time before our conclusion. Yeah. No, I just, I. There was a lot of information that just went by very quickly. It's a lot. Yeah. I just try to be quick. It's really the exact same results that we saw a few months ago, getting the other half of the data pretty much changed nothing from what we've. Seen before. You'll understand if I say a lot has happened in the last few months. In some ways, making some of the immediate issues about polling place accessibility, maybe less urgent as we move more to mail it all. Yes. Oh, Janice has arrived. Yeah, it's sorry, Jim. My cop broke down. I had to get it jumped. But we had a lot of questions for you, Janice. Well, give them to me. What are they? We just said, Jim, so we'll take care of it. Oh, great. I can only hope. What was the question? Um, Well, there were questions about whether the ballots had been sent out back in March, but that was answered previously. And one of the members of the committee knew the answer. They said, you answered it back early in either April or.  So, um, We'll, we'll have this online. So if there's any further questions, does anybody have a question for Janice now that she's sitting here? Oh, good. Hi, Paul. No, no, I don't have a question. Okay. I don't have any questions, but, um, I'm very pleased to attend my first meeting of this group. So thank you very much, Jim, for the invitation. I invited Paul, having seen that he was, uh, Interested in elections and his, um, In, uh, working with folks in Washington. On, um, issues with MIT. And, uh, he was just appointed to the disabilities commission. And, uh, All has been a Paul Rea has been an excellent member of our committee. But to have interested parties that are willing to attend, I think it's great. More ideas. We can share the better. Um, If not, we'll go on to the next agenda item. I have a one, I have one question, Jim. Um, which is great. So much of a question, but I kind of just interested. What we as a committee is sort of a bigger question. But what we as a committee want to do about the polling place data and how we want to act. On it, if we do want to put forward some recommendations, it would be in a convenient. Time to recommend that would be in advance of any redistricting that happens. If polling locations are going to be moved for people anyway. And if our recommendations include moving polling locations. I know we don't have the power to move them, but we could put forth recommendations that. You know, Along those lines and see whether or not. They're accepted. So I, I would like us to be to put forward recommendations. I'm not sure the next step. Uh, For us to do so. Um, but I, Putting it out there is something I would, I would like us to look into. Well, I can tell you one of the biggest recommendations or the most frequently asked of me is, Will the parking meters be turned off the day of the election. In the event that there are lines or that there are people. That have to pay to vote. The town got it loud and clear when they put out the bill. It's prepaid mailer to everyone via postcard to request an early ballot and to provide drop boxes. But unless we're going to go back to poll tax. Um, why should we have people have to pay. A meter to vote and then run out while they're exercising their right. Just to put more money in the meter. If they only thought they'd be there 15 minutes. And it took a half an hour. Um, Are there any other questions or. Jim, this is Adam. Yes. I'm just looking. Is it possible max for you to, to send out the report to the committee so that we can look at some of the more of the details. I noticed one of the things you pointed out was that. Parking was an issue. But you also pointed out that, um, there was a chart in there about the difficulty voting in Arlington and that most people said they had no difficulty, but it seems like there was a big gap of people who, um, By, by not checking that box did have a difficulty. And I'd love to see some analysis around. Um, how well those two things match up of the people who don't have a difficulty versus people who do. And I know that's a lot to ask of you. So if you, I don't know how much you can share or what kind of report you can provide us. But if we could dig into that a little, it would be good. Yeah. I'm happy to, to dig into that more. And I'll send, um, Either some tables or something useful around in the next couple weeks that that works. Um, I'll talk to Jennifer because we were working on that report sort of writing it up. Um, I'm not sure if we can share the full data or not. Um, but we can talk about that and see all what else are useful too. I don't see our town manager or town council here right, right now that left us, but there was another problem that keeps cropping up at precinct 19, which is why people indicated there was a problem. And that is there's a very limited amount of school parking. And the teachers are really angered by the fact that voters come and take their spaces. And election staff take their spaces. So it might be a recommendation. That we ask that the schools use that day as a professional teacher day as they had in the past. So we don't have a conflict with parking. Go ahead. Jennifer. Yes. From the school committee. Yeah, I can speak to that. So, so the main election is a professional development day. But the question is. Are all elections that and I, frankly, if you made both primaries. And if you made every election that we would ever need access to the polls. A no school day. I think that'd be really tricky to schedule. Okay. I wanted to speak also to, um, to Greg's point, um, when we met a long time ago, and I could have my, I couldn't really miss remember it because it was a while ago. Um, I think we had talked about possibly recommending pulling out a precinct at the two. Locations where there is difficulty parking. So that just not manner. You know, I know it's been a long standing desire to move to pull a precinct seven out of there. Potentially. Um, and then if we could pull another precinct out of, um, peers. That we wouldn't potentially have as many problems parking and getting to there. I mean, you'd still have public translation issues, which is what people mentioned as well. Um, so that would be, um, it should be fewer people there. Well, then we should be looking since the town is eagerly listening to us. Um, I think it'd be a good idea to, to set apart, um, some time to discuss polling locations and what would reflect some of the answers from the, uh, survey questions as to why people should be looking. And specifically what they were. Jim. Yes. Um, as I understand it, um, the concerns that the folks who responded to the survey. Had. Uh, increased. As with the age of the responder. And I would. Maybe suggest that, um, we think about talking to the folks at the council on aging, of which I'm a member. Um, and, uh, talk to them about what some of those specific concerns are for the elderly and getting to polling places. Um, and, um, uh, we might. From that discussion. Realize, um, some underlying issues that we could punch into the equation as to where we want to put the polling places. I think that's a good agenda item for our next meeting. We have a few more minutes before we normally close. So I just wanted to update everyone regarding our warrant articles on, um, April, or rather May 12th, the select board vote or no, maybe it's on April 6th. The select board voted to suspend all articles, except for financial articles at the upcoming planned town meeting, which is currently scheduled for the third week of June. Uh, pending weather conditions. And so that would be likely June 15th, 17th, or 22nd. And the reason, um, that they want to abbreviate the meeting is obviously to protect everyone from COVID-19. And the plan is to place it out in the pierce athletic field behind the high school. And coordinate off. So we'd all be six feet apart from one another. Um, plans are still underway for that. But so that that's the update on articles 21, 23 and 24. When I did talk to the moderator about. Not postponing article 21 so that we'd be extended. He is short. Me that we can continue as we have and enable everyone to vote and participate as they have so that we're not going away anytime soon. Um, So that's all I have to say about the warrants. Articles. Um, We do know that our meeting from April 6th, is going to be on the ACMI network. They are setting up a special, um, Folder for our meetings. So that both this meeting and that meeting will be on available. Um, Files for some time long in the future. So what I was planning to do absent of any objections is to have that posted to the town website in lieu of minutes. Unless Greg, you are anxious to do your usual job. Preparing minutes. Um, I don't think I could do a better job than the video recording. Okay. Do you have any other update on the minutes? Uh, no. Okay. Do we have any new business? Jim, this is Adam. Yes. Uh, so I, um, I, as I've mentioned before in previous meetings, I've done work with, um, uh, election monitoring where, you know, showing up at a polling place on an election day to help out, um, as a monitor. Uh, and that has in the past been organized by a guy named Quentin Palfrey, who was, uh, most recently he was the Democratic party nominee for Lieutenant governor. He's got a long career in this about a decade and a half doing these sorts of things. And I asked him if he'd be interested in doing this. Um, um, issues that he's seen in his capacity that we could be thinking about. And he thought that would be a great idea. He's currently the president of a organization called the voter protection core. I can provide you their URL. If people of this committee are interested in hearing from him, if that's something we could put on the schedule in the future, if that's appropriate, I'm not sure. Um, I wanted to offer that as, as a connection of, of having him come talk to us. If people wanted to hear from him. Uh, Holland favor. Hi. Hi. Hi. It looks to me like a unanimous vote. All right. Well, then I, uh, I will try to connect you with him so we can get him on the calendar for future meeting. Okay. Great. Um, It was a question from a Hong Chen who may still be, you know, he is still here about whether or not, um, I was going to send out info for election training. And once I coordinate that with, um, Adam, I will, uh, set that up and let everybody know when that's going to be. Seems I'm going to be doing that. Um, Uh, another question from Elaine Crowders. Will the chairs of the town meeting, be farther than six feet to allow folks to shift. While this in the spaces and still be six feet apart. Um, That's a question for public works and John Leone. Um, to my knowledge, they're going to be at least six feet apart. Other than that, I cannot answer that. Any other new business. Dennis, would you like to say anything? No, thanks. Okay. I have a few other people that have been patiently attending all night long. And I wonder, uh, Julie, if you'd like to say anything. Um, Yeah, I'm happy to, um, Try to talk just briefly about the survey. Um, results because of course, um, That's still an envision Arlington project. Um, I really liked, um, Maxwell's report. I thought it was very clear. Um, It's perfectly fine for you all. If you can, um, draft them in time. Um, we usually try to have the report. Ready for town meeting. Um, so, um, you've got until mid June. Uh, to go ahead and include. Inclusions or recommendations. They obviously, I have no weight, but, but that's definitely a place that it's fine to take. To interpret the data so that the public in the future, reading the report will go. Okay. I look at the data and I can see. Now, and somebody had a question about the data. Um, which, and I'm not sure what the question was, but maybe I can answer it. I think it was whether it could be given to other people. And I don't think there's any reason that it can't. No, I think we, if we, um, we can make that file, um, available to anybody who wants to dig in and do. You know, Different research three years down the road, there might be, um, More data to mine from a particular topic. Um, so yeah, that's totally fine. And in the report. We always include. Just sort of the, the summary report of all of the charts and graphs. Um, so, uh, Your section would just include your charts and graphs and how you interpret them. So that people get a sense of what you're doing. Um, from the survey. So I can work more, of course, with, with Maxwell and Jennifer on that. Um, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Julie. And I can provide, um, for the committee, some cleaned up data of just sort of the election questions. Um, that we care about, um, In a different format. I can share, uh, send that around a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Great. I will send you a draft of something. I've been in a back burner for a while. Same here. And as you may know, Arlington is part of the age friendly movement. And a lot of that data. Has relevance to. The recommendations that would go forward with the age friendly committee. Um, so I think sharing. That information with again, the council on aging, um, would be, uh, important to do. Because they will then be able to. Also. An ally and, and, uh, Developing any change. That you would want to have. It purely from a practical survey standpoint.  And their issues are very important. Um, and so if they had. They, that could be a way to get follow-up questions under sort of, um, If seniors are, are impacted. Um, by some of the voting difficulties or issues, Then it's certainly a way to ask quest follow-up questions. Um, you know, would this solve your problem? Um, Kind of things in collaboration with, uh, with them. So I think it's a way of starting that conversation. With this data in hand. Great. So, um, just quickly say something. Um, when we, we went back and forth about the survey questions. One of the things that came up is that we might get some information from, um, A qualitative information from a focus group that we wouldn't get from the survey. And I think issues on, and as Paul had mentioned, Talking to people at the council on aging or talking to people in disability commission might be more valuable to us than. We just, we won't get a deep, deep diving into the data from the survey won't give us the information that we might need for that. Sure. Okay. Okay. Allow me to answer a question. Um, Chen has been standing by for a while and he asked a question about observers. According to the state law, um, We have to enable a place for observers at this election. Doug Hyme confirmed that after I brought that question up. Uh, I will be sending you a slightly modified schematic for the Dallin school so that we can accommodate, um, Observers from campaigns should they choose to have someone there and contacted a couple of campaign managers who have said, they're not planning to, um, Send observers. Um, and one of them is with us here. Um, I think it's important for the reason that they want to, um, Protect their campaign workers and avoid any exposure to COVID-19 as well as to protect. All the voters in the poll workers. So that's the answer to the question. We have to accommodate observers if they come. But perhaps they won't come. Um, I think that's the answer to the question. Um, I think that's the answer to this before the meeting. Any comments? Let's start with you, Adam. Because this. Jim. Very good, smooth handling. Thank you. Dennis. I mean, great, great, great. Uh, I don't have any other comments. Okay. Dan done. It wasn't here. Sean isn't here. Walter. No comments. Okay, Walter. Thank you. No comments. Thank you. Okay. I think I've said enough. So I won't bother commenting further, but thank you. Um, Maxwell. For me. Okay. Paul. Yeah. Paulie is still there. Okay. Uh, Okay. Jennifer. No additional comments. Okay. Leslie. No, I don't have any more comments. Okay. Janice. And this, are you still there? No comments. Thank you. Sorry. Well, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. So move. Uh, who was that? Walter. Uh, seconded by who? Second. Leslie. Okay. All in favor of adjournment. He's raised your right hand. Okay. Aye. Excellent. I believe we have a unanimous vote to adjourn. And, um, I will arrange for our next meeting sometime. Uh, after the election. Uh, we do have town meeting coming up. So that'll be, um, A little compromising. Does anybody have any. Uh, Favorite days in the month of June. Greg. They all kind of run together. Okay. Well, I'll, I'll put out a, another rank choice voting option. Where you can all indicate. Which of the days you liked. Thank you for the compliments of using rank choice voting in that way. Okay. Well, then we'll, uh, We'll, uh, We'll, uh, Thank you all for attending. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for voting in that way. Okay. Well, then we'll, um, We'll conclude. And, uh, Thank you all for attending.


So these items that you walk past or would you pick these items up? Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching Amazing, right? All right, let's get started Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. All right in this video I'm going to talk to you about 31 of my bread and butter bolos items that I sourced cheap and sold for 35 dollars or less on ebay and I'm going to tell you that Anyone can do this job if you have motivation and drive and a little bit of money in your pocket to go out and source at garage sales Thrift stores estate sales You can flip those items for money Again, these are bread and butter items items that sold for 35 dollars or less But my cost of goods are so low that the profits are really really good So i'm going to tell you where I got the item what I paid for it and what it sold for Feel free to drop me any questions down in the comments. Happy to answer those for you And let's get started All right, so the first item here is uh from a State sale. Yeah, I was thinking this was the mc we'll call it the mcdonald's estate sale and Oh my goodness. This sale was full of mcdonald's way A former employee and these items were all vintage But anyhow, this is a hand puppet and I got this for 50 cents and I sold this for 25 dollars and 90 cents So again 50 cents into 25 to me Is it a big money where I sold the item for hundreds of dollars? No, but 50 cents into 25 I will take that all day long um little hand puppet And let's move on to the next one here. Here's what the tag looks like if anybody is interested in seeing that That's how I dated it Sometimes for dates. I'll just put vintage if I know it's vintage Uh typically, uh, you can dig around and try to find dates But don't always go by what something says on ebay. I think sometimes people will guess And just play it safe and use vintage if you're not sure And but make sure it's vintage and vintage would be 20 years um or older, so It's 2022 so, um anything I gotta think from 2002 to current I would consider vintage You can uh correct me if I'm wrong on that, but that's how I understand it. That's my rule of thumb Okay, so this plate Uh, I'm not a big fan of breakables. If you're new here, you will hear me talk about that quite often I try to shy Shy, I try to stay away from them. Uh, just because I don't really like shipping them But little figurines stuff like that this plate Well, it's like I can ship a plate and this came out of a mystery box So I didn't really source this this came in a box Of I believe it was in Christmas items, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense but I will get uh boxes mystery boxes from the thrift store from time to time and I decided that I had heard of laurel birch. I know some of her items can do really well And I decided to list this now was it big money? No, but I probably had a dollar less in it And I sold this for 18 dollars and 50 cents plus shipping The next item is this indian summer Thanksgiving plastic canvas It's a kit and if you look here, that's what the plastic canvas looks like This is what it turns into when it's a finished product And I couldn't find any other ones like this. I ended up selling this one for A best offer of $14 plus shipping I just did a video not long ago on cross stitch kits to be on the lookout for Um, I don't think this is considered cross stitch But some of the cross stitch kits can go for big money. It's the same kind of needlework type items Uh, but definitely check out that video. There was a brand that through my research I found out about that I did not know about it and I talk about it in that video. So definitely I may not be the only one that doesn't know about it. So go check that out All right, this item is a Barbie fashionista curvy doll. So she is uh considered a plus size doll She's just got more curves than your typical Barbie and I didn't have any clothes So I apologize for that. This is what it says on the back and she came out of a mystery toy box from a thrift store um I did a close-up of her face just because I didn't want to use a nude picture for the first photo Uh, she sold for $8 I took a best offer of $8 and it actually sold quicker than I expected I thought I was gonna sit on this listing for a while. Um, I think maybe the face close-up Maybe caught people's eyes when they were scrolling as Compared to like a further outshot. I don't know. Maybe something you can try Caribou if you ever see the caribou games, they are a bolo if you can find them complete Oh my goodness sealed even better big money bolo Now if you find one and it is incomplete you can sell it as incomplete and just Mark what's missing or you can part it out I have a video over on my reseller testing bolo products youtube channel Where I show you how I completely parted out a caribou game This is one of the pieces from This did take a little while to sell but a lot of times the caribou games are missing this key So it's a replacement part And I recently did a video on replacement parts as well If you guys want to see other items that I sell that are replacements. It's Unbelievable. Um, it seems like no matter what it is. There's someone looking for it and someone that needs it uh, this sold for $12 best offer the buyer was all in for 17 60 And I got this at a garage sale and I'm guessing by the time I parted it out My cost of goods was probably around 75 cents All right, these webkins golden retriever dog and a frog and right here Well, maybe I didn't do a close-up. It's got the little tag on it So I think that the tags Usually if they're still on there somebody told me there's a way to tell if it's used or not used the code So you want to include a picture of the tag? I didn't know that and didn't do that in this Listing so that's something I learned since I listed this I sold these for 13 dollars and 31 cents and the buyer paid shipping and I can't remember where I got that one All right, these also came out of a thrift store mystery box and I was like, I'm gonna try to sell these giant nerds I think somebody's gonna want them and sure enough they did I did take a best offer of 12 dollars on those and the buyer was all in for 20 dollars and 89 cents These are extra large nerd candy containers and you can see right there I love to use this tape measure. It's I think steel or something. So it's metal. It's metal. It's probably not steel Oh, I need to go to bed metal So it stays put and when you do it up like this because I you I also have like a sewing Tape measure that I use But this works much better in my opinion All right, let's go on to the next one here back to the future. This is the 25th anniversary Trilogy DVD set. I got this at a garage sale for 50 cents and I ended up selling this for 24 plus shipping This is a thomas and friends henry green Uh wooden railway train. So it is wood. Let me show you what the bottom looks like here That's what the bottom looks like usually it'll tell the train's name somewhere on it This I got at the goodwill bins. So it's a dollar 79 a pound. So I probably had like a quarter maybe 50 cents in this and A lot of times I will lot these up But for some reason I just felt like this one would sell independently and it did I sold this for nine dollars plus shipping The buyer was all in for 15 42 for one train. So don't be afraid to part these things out Does it take more time? Yes This is a vintage arthur plush doll. So noelle farm girl scavenger She purchased a 50 dollar plush lot and she gifted it to me. She purchased that from donna telebotelino's youtube channel So it was 50 dollars free shipping for a huge ball of plush And if you want to see what else I got definitely go check out that video. There was a big money bolo in there I'm still waiting on it to sell, but I'm holding out Um, because I know that the item is a bolo and I'm gonna wait on the right buyer and and get a good price for it So, uh, check out that video lots of fun. Check out noelle farm girl scavenger And donna telebotelino This guy sold for 11 bucks and the buyer was all in for 17 78. So he's just a little cute eden 1995 plush doll Nerf gun, okay, this came out of a thrift store mystery box I don't source things like this the box was kind of a wall wall and I was like I've got to Pick a few things out of this box and list it even if I don't want to And I decided to part out the nerf guns that were in there. I didn't want to sell the huge gun um, so what I did is I took um a couple I made a couple different listings But this was one of them. This is a 20 disc round magazine.  This one actually sold pretty quickly Identifying what kind of animal it is. I think putting that in the title was gonna help And this one had no code this I got at a garage sale for 50 cents I took a I'm sorry sold it on sale 25 off sale for $7 and 50 cents plus shipping This I got at a garage sale. I saw American girl bitty baby and I knew that I was going to pick this up There I remember correctly there wasn't a price on it, but I got it for one dollar So this for 17 dollars Plus shipping any time you find American girl or bitty baby clothes, especially new old stock You definitely want to pick those up if you can get them for the right price. Don't overpay. You got to be careful A lot of times I feel like at garage sales people have their American girl stuff priced high Now some of it can be big money. So you definitely want to look it up. Just Definitely do your research This is an avon 1975 peek-a-boo pen pals kangaroo brooch. Um, so it is a fragrance Uh, I thought it was glace, but somebody said I was saying it wrong and I can't remember how they told me to say it So that's what it looks like. It's g l a c e, but it's um I guess it's not pronounced that way. So I apologize for pronouncing that wrong I had no clue that I was saying it wrong thought I had that one right, but that's uh, let me show you So if you open it up, that's what it looks like and it's like a fragrance or perfume This when I smelled it, it doesn't really smell the people buying these probably don't even care about that They just want it for the nostalgia the The little brooch that it's in I mean people are gonna wear them that you know, they're just a fun item I purchased a whole bunch of these at a thrift store. I paid 50 cents a piece for them and they have been selling like wild Wild something. I don't know. They why what's that? Little slogan. I don't know. They've been selling really good. We'll just say that So I sold this one for a best offer of $15. The buyer was all in for $21.99 The next item is this miss pots and chip footstool. This is a harder to find Disney figure from beauty and the beast and it is another thing you can call it is a cake topper and A lot of people buy these to put on top of cakes, but people also buy them for their kids to play with So this one ended up selling for $9 and I picked it up at a thrift store and a bunch of little toys So I had 10 cents in this so when I tell you that anybody can do this Anybody can do this I paid 10 cents for it and I turned it into nine Dollars is that huge money? No, but my investment was so tiny You don't have need to have a lot of money to be able to start this business Okay, this is a bill to bear plush and this one is a little better I paid a dollar for it and I sold it for $35 plus shipping. So He's a white polar bear teddy bear and he's got on this sweet karate outfit So if they have clothes on them, they're gonna go for more than they would if they didn't But a lot of times people will just take the clothes off of them and sell the clothes separately And that is always an option. I could have sold the bear and sold the clothes separate So you can part it out The next item I got this at the Goodwill bin. So I dug this out of a bin and I was like anything Lego Duplo the bigger Legos. I don't typically pick up unless they are something like this this item sold really quick I ended up taking a best offer of $12 on that and the buyer was all in for $18.93 This guy took forever to sell But I had a smaller version with a broken eye that sold super quick But for some reason maybe I just had him priced too high I don't know but this was an 18 inch And I got him at a garage sale for a buck and I ended up taking a best offer of $22 plus shipping I just wanted to move him out. So This is a department 56 monk bell ringer. It's porcelain and it's got a it's called a clapper And this is what it looks like. So it's not really a bell, but it's a clapper from my research And this came out of a thrift store Christmas mystery box So I probably have about a dollar in that somebody offered me 10 bucks on it And I went ahead and took that offer and the buyer was all in for 1748 This is another one that can be considered a cake topper. It's a 1984 cabbage patch kids toy I did include the balloons in my title because that is something that maybe somebody that's looking for this specific item Is going to put in as a keyword. I can't remember where I got this one, but I sold it for a best offer of $7 Plus shipping. I probably had you know 25 cents or less and it probably came in a toy lot This came from my dibble box from donatella botelino. It was a toy box. She has a youtube channel and I purchased lots um like Lots I do purchase lots But like bulk buys from her wholesale buys for resellers So a box of stuff and I paid a hundred dollars for a bunch of toys And this was one of the items in there and I sold this for 16 dollars The buyer was all in for 23 77 if you would like to see The entire unboxing that is on this channel. You can check that out and definitely check out her channel and auctions for you I have them linked down below if you're looking for inventory so This barbie came from the bins. I dug this out of the goodwill bins Super excited.  Um I See a dollar 79 pound. I'm gonna say she was probably about a buck sold really quick for 17 dollars plus shipping She is a dolls of the world pollinese Polynesian barbie doll and she's got the flowers in her hair and the grass skirt. She is super cool These were also from the goodwill bins if you guys remember I bought a tote that was full of craft items and I left them in the little tote It was like a plastic drawer thing because I wanted to do an unboxing for you And that is over on my sourcing with bolo buddies channel If you want to see everything that came in that what I decided to keep what I got rid of now I did pay more because I paid for the tote that was broken and I ended up throwing it away It's more like a plastic drawer not really a tote But this one item I sold these for 14 dollars and 80 cents plus shipping It's they're called pretty doll heads. So they're arts and crafts and they're made in japan I love finding made in japan items And the vintage and they're super cool. So and they sold pretty quickly These vintage santa clauds again made in japan. They are felt and plastic Got these at a garage sale for one dollar and I sold these for 25 dollars plus shipping This guy right here is a vintage ji joe from 1996 Paul tuckett us af action figure got him out of a mystery box also from the thrift store and I sold him for 1776 plus shipping The next item is this vintage foe pen and it's like somebody took This foe and put it on this vintage brooch. I don't know if it's originally Connected to it or somebody has played around with this But uh, yeah, it ended up selling pretty quick And this one came from a garage sale. I paid 50 cents for it and it sold for 1332 plus shipping The next item came out of a vintage toy box that I purchased from auctions for you talked about her earlier Again, link down below if you're looking for inventory this ended up breaking when I was putting the batteries in it And I just sold it for parts or repair and it still sold for 14 dollars and 80 cents plus shipping So if it would have been in better condition, it probably would have done pretty well The next item is this solid brass butterfly wall hanging eight inch wing span I got this at a thrift store for 50 cents And I sold it for a best offer of nine dollars and 20 cents plus shipping This chunky flower necklace says c 1946 statement piece costume That is where I got that. I have no idea what brand that if is if that stands for something I just put it in the title and um, it's just a fun little statement piece Ended up selling this for 16 dollars and 28 cents plus shipping and I got that at thrift store for 50 cents These are disney infinity inside out play set um Disney infinity they are hit and miss but they are typically bread and butter I have sold quite a few of these. Um, actually at the goodwill bends there's a guy that is up there and he knows I have this youtube channel and uh, He will always hand me stuff that he knows I like to sell and he knows I like these and he will hand these off to me this one is not He didn't give me these but he gave me some of the Incredibles and it's just nice of him that he does that so Uh, definitely something I look for and at the goodwill bends. They're so cheap But I got these at a garage sale for 50 cents and I sold them for 14 80 plus shipping The next item is this dino trucks destructs die cast vehicle dinosaur I got this in a mystery box from a thrift store and I sold this for a best offer of 10 plus shipping All right, you guys that was was it 31 I think it was 31. I can't remember now. Oh my goodness. Let me see here Yeah, 31 bread and butter bolos. Let me know what you think in the comments Are these items that you walk past or would you pick these items up? There's gonna be some other videos popping up here and here a subscribe button I would love it if you're would subscribe if you're new here. Thank you so much for being here Thank you for watching. Um, if you're new here, let me know how you found the channel And if you've been here a while leave me an owl Emoji with an L on the end not Somebody's like, what are you saying? I'm like, I think I'm saying owl, but I don't know. Anyway, thanks for watching


It was crazy because that Jeff Janus completion against Arizona. He rolled out to his left Rode out to his left to escape pressure and then on the run while he was falling down through it across his body Perfect throw to Jeff Janus and it was amazing. There's one of the best throws I've ever seen He's leaning back on his back foot like it's just an incredible throw He might be the only quarterback in the NFL that can make that throw


Hello, and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 LCD TFT display controller. It covers all features of the LTDC controller, which is used to interface with TFT displays. The LCD TFT stands for Liquid Crystal Display Thin Film Transistor. The controller is highly configurable and interfaces with standard parallel RGB interfaces. The benefits of the LCD TFT display controller include flexible programmable display parameters, integrated pixel format converter, and blender. The LCD TFT display controller or LTDC frame buffer can be located either in on-chip memory or in external memory depending on the panel resolution. The LCD TFT display controller provides a 24-bit parallel digital RGB or red-green-blue interface with additional signals for horizontal and vertical synchronization. The LTDC is master on the AHB bus matrix and can access internal memories like internal flash, SRAM 1, SRAM 2, or external memories via FMC quad-SPI interfaces. It also features a dedicated 64-word FIFO per layer. It supports programmable timings and polarity parameters to interface with a wide range of display panels. The LTDC offers flexible programmable parameters, allowing it to support a wide variety of display panels. Programmable display size, for example, QVGA, WQVGA, and VGA. Programmable background color, 24-bit RGB value, programmed in LCD controller register, LTDC-BCCR, used for blending with the bottom layer. Multi-layer support with blending, two layers. Dithering, two bits per color channel, 2-2-2 for RGB. The dithering pseudo-random technique is used to add a small random value or threshold to each pixel color channel or RGB value, thus rounding up the most significant bits in some cases when displaying 24-bit data on an 18-bit display. And new programmed values can be loaded immediately at runtime or during vertical blanking. This is the LCD-TFT controller block diagram. The LTDC features three clock domains, AHB clock domain or HCLK, to transfer data from memories to the layer FIFO and frame buffer configuration registers. APB clock domain or PCLK to access the global configuration and interrupt registers. And the pixel clock domain or LCD-CLK to generate LCD-TFT interface signals, pixel data, and layer configuration. The LCD-CLK output should be configured according to the panel requirements. To interface with TFT panels, all timings are programmable through the LTDC controller. These timings come from the TFT panel datasheet and are VBP or vertical back porch, VFP or vertical front porch, HBP or horizontal back porch, or HFP, horizontal front porch, H-SYNC or horizontal synchronization, and V-SYNC or vertical synchronization. The LTDC output signals are summarized in this table. The LCD-TFT controller pins must be configured by the user application. The unused pins can be used for other purposes. The programmable pixel format is used for the data stored in the frame buffer of a layer. This table describes the pixel data mapping versus the selected input color format. The LTDC can be configured with up to 8 programmable input color formats per layer. Direct color, ARGB-8888, RGB-8888, RGB-565, ARGB-1555, ARGB-4444, indirect color, L8, 8-bit luminance or CLUT, AL-44, 4-bit alpha and 4-bit luminance, and AL-88, 8-bit alpha and 8-bit luminance. When the color format of a bitmap is converted into another one, this operation is called pixel format conversion, or PFC. The pixel data is read from the frame buffer and then transformed to the internal ARGB-8888 format as follows. Components, which have a width of less than 8 bits, get expanded to 8 bits by bit replication. The 8 most significant bits are chosen. Note that conversion from direct color to indirect color or from indirect color to direct color is easy to do, but converting a direct color to an indirect color format would mean regenerating a color lookup table or CLUT, which is a very complex operation. The color lookup table is only used in case of indexed color for L8, AL-44 and AL-88 input pixel formats. It supports up to 256 entries per layer. The frame buffer contains an index value for each pixel. The CLUT has to be loaded with the RG and V values that will replace the original RGB values of that pixel or indexed color. Each color or RGB value has its own address, which is the position within the CLUT. Every layer can be positioned and resized. The programmable layer position and size define the first and last visible pixel of a line and the first last visible line in the window. It allows display of either the full image frame or only a part of the image frame. Every layer has a configurable number of lines and line length for the color frame buffer and the pitch. The pitch is the distance between the start of one line and the beginning of the next line in bytes. These parameters are expressed in bytes, not in pixels, so their values depend on the number of bits per pixel. The line length and the number of lines parameters are used to stop the prefetching of data from the layer FIFO at the end of the frame buffer. The LTDC features configurable blending factors. The blending order is fixed and it is bottom up. If two layers are enabled, layer one is first blended with the background color, then layer two is blended with the result of the previous blending. Each layer can have a default color in the ARGB format, which is used outside the defined layer window or when a layer is disabled. Tricky use case. Layer one is enabled. Layer two is disabled with default color black. If blending factor is set to constant alpha equals 0xFF, no image is displayed. Only black window is displayed. Default color of layer two is black. To bypass the default color, set the blending factor to transparent, alpha equals 0x00. A color key, RGB, can be configured to be representative for a transparent pixel. If color keying is enabled, the current pixels after format conversion and before blending are compared to the color key. If they match for the programmed RGB value, all channels ARGB of that pixel are set to 0. The color key value can be configured and used at runtime to replace the pixel RGB value. Color keying is enabled through the LTDC LXCKCR register. Line interrupt. Generated when a programmed line position is reached. Register reload interrupt. Generated when the shadow registers are relocated during the vertical blanking period. FIFO underrun interrupt. Generated when a pixel is requested from an empty layer FIFO. And transfer error interrupt. Generated when an AHB bus error occurs during data transfer. The LTDC is active in run and sleep modes. An LTDC interrupt can cause the device to exit sleep mode. The device is not able to perform any communication in stop and standby modes. Graphic applications require a high quality user interface. This can be achieved using the STM32F7 to connect the display thanks to the LCD TFT controller. In addition, the FMC or Quad SPI interface may be used to access an external flash memory containing all of the graphical contents needed such as background images, high resolution icons, or fonts to support multiple languages. This is a list of peripherals related to the LTDC. Please refer to these peripheral trainings for more information if needed. Reset and clock control or RCC. And general purpose inputs, outputs, or GPIO.