Speaker 1: Each team, the Eagles in the Bengals had five possessions
Speaker 1: each in the second half. The Bengals scored on one
Speaker 1: of the five and the Eagles scored on five out
Speaker 1: of the five, and it was unstoppable. So if they
Speaker 1: played another quarter, they would have scored seven out of seven.
Speaker 1: And the Bengals, it looks at me like they lost
Speaker 1: their guts, they lost their brains, they lost their heart,
Speaker 1: they lost their gonads, they lost everything on the field
Speaker 1: of honor.
Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: The Raiders are in town, the Las Vegas Raiders, Moe
Speaker 1: and others, and Lance will break it down later on today.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, as you may know, there's an election a
Speaker 1: week from Tuesday, and Sherry Poland runs the Hamilton County
Speaker 1: Board of Elections with an iron grip. She is also
Speaker 1: a national expert when it comes to these matters. When
Speaker 1: I speak to those of the Democrat Party, if I
Speaker 1: speak to Tim Burke, or if I speak to Alixe
Speaker 1: Trountafilu at the Republican Party, I get the same answer.
Speaker 1: That is, she's nonpartisan. She's built a system that is
Speaker 1: the envy of the rest of the world. In Hamlet County,
Speaker 1: And we have the honor this afternoon of being with Sherry,
Speaker 1: Poland and Sherry. Welcome again to the Bill, cunninghams and Sherry.
Speaker 1: First of all, I deal with facts. So many people
Speaker 1: deal with opinion. I only deal with facts. As we
Speaker 1: sit here this Monday afternoon, how many people have voted?
Speaker 1: Break it down by in person and by mail? What
Speaker 1: percent of out of the total on each come election day?
Speaker 1: How many people in your opinion will vote? Is there
Speaker 1: a breakdown Republican and Democrat? What's going to happen with
Speaker 1: the races? Are their difficulties? Will you have results by
Speaker 1: mid nine on election night? There's a question in there somewhere.
Speaker 1: Can you answer it?
Speaker 3: Hi, Bill, thank you for having me on. Yes, I
Speaker 3: can answer your questions. We'll start off with the fact
Speaker 3: that over one hundred and eight thousand voters in Hamilton
Speaker 3: County have already cast their ballot in this presidential election.
Speaker 3: Approximately fifty seven thousand of those voters voted early in
Speaker 3: person at the Board of Elections on around fifty one
Speaker 3: thousand have already returned their vote by mail ballot.
Speaker 2: Do you open up? Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: The People's judge and I about two weeks ago, sell
Speaker 1: on our kitchen table and each of us so we
Speaker 1: took about a half an hour and we voted. Now,
Speaker 1: when those votes come in and I assume our two
Speaker 1: ballots will have been counted at some point, explain to
Speaker 1: me the process. If Tony Benner, who lives in Green Township,
Speaker 1: sends in an absentee ballot, it goes in the mailbox.
Speaker 1: In fact, every mailbox in Hamlelton County is a drop box.
Speaker 1: You can drop your ballot in the mailbox and it
Speaker 1: comes into the Board of Elections. Walk through with me
Speaker 1: what happens to that mail in ballot from the time
Speaker 1: and arrives in your office to election night.
Speaker 2: What happens step by step?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 4: Absolutely well.
Speaker 3: First off, if a voter wishes to vote by mail,
Speaker 3: we do not automatically mail ballots in the.
Speaker 4: State of Ohio, So a voter has to request a.
Speaker 3: Vote by mail ballot by filling out a form submitting
Speaker 3: it to the Board of Elections. That form must contain
Speaker 3: the voter's name, addressed data, birth form of ID, and
Speaker 3: their signature, and it must match what's on file at
Speaker 3: the Board of Election according to their voter registration. Then
Speaker 3: we will send the voter a ballot. After the voter
Speaker 3: votes the ballot, as you know because you've done this,
Speaker 3: the ballot goes inside an identification envelope. Again, the voter
Speaker 3: must confirm their name, their address, a form of ID,
Speaker 3: and a signature, and the ballot.
Speaker 4: Has to be sealed inside that envelope.
Speaker 3: If a vote by mail voter wishes to return it
Speaker 3: by mail for this election, it's a two sheet ballot,
Speaker 3: so it's a dollar and one cent or two forever stamps.
Speaker 3: Or the voter can deliver their own ballot to the
Speaker 3: Board of Elections using our twenty four hour drop box.
Speaker 3: If a voter is returning a ballot for a family member,
Speaker 3: they can do that to something a.
Speaker 4: Little different this year. They do have to fill out
Speaker 4: a form basically just.
Speaker 3: A testing that they have permission to deliver the ballot
Speaker 3: for a family member. So then when the ballot, when
Speaker 3: that vote by mail ballot is returned and receives here
Speaker 3: at the Board of Elections, our buary partisan teams will
Speaker 3: examining the identification envelope and compare that information to the
Speaker 3: voter registration system.
Speaker 4: Once again, if it's a.
Speaker 3: Match, we remove the ballot and we scan the ballots.
Speaker 3: We do not count the ballot until the polls close
Speaker 3: on election night. So right now we're conducting what we
Speaker 3: call acts of preparation. We're confirming the voter's identity and
Speaker 3: that they were eligible to cast this vote by mail ballot.
Speaker 3: We're scanning the ballot. We're storing it inside of a
Speaker 3: dual walcked room. Wherever we have ballots, they are in
Speaker 3: a dual locked room. It takes one Republican and one
Speaker 3: Democrat to get into that room. And then after the
Speaker 3: polls close on election night, those vote by mail ballots
Speaker 3: and the early in person ballots are the very first
Speaker 3: ballots that are counted again after the polls closed.
Speaker 2: Please go ahead, Please go ahead.
Speaker 3: We usually can get those absentiers as posted right around
Speaker 3: eight pm election night.
Speaker 1: So let's say Tony Bender and Green Township has voted
Speaker 1: a mail in ballot to filled out all the forms correctly.
Speaker 1: There's one envelope inside the other envelope, and then it
Speaker 1: is sent in and you open it up. You have
Speaker 1: Democrats Republicans looking ready to go. But Tony Bender says,
Speaker 1: you know what, I've changed my mind. I don't want
Speaker 1: to vote the way I voted for Trump or voted
Speaker 1: for the Democrat. You know, I want to change my
Speaker 1: vote for the Supreme Court. I want to change. What
Speaker 1: If Tony Bender says I changed my mind and I
Speaker 1: want to vote differently, what happens then?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Once he's cast his ballot, he's done. He cannot
Speaker 3: change his mind and cast a second ballot. As soon
Speaker 3: as a voter returns that application to request a ballot
Speaker 3: by mail, the record is flagged, and if they then
Speaker 3: go to their polling place on election day, they'll be
Speaker 3: required to cast what we call provisional ballot, same ballot
Speaker 3: everyone else receives. The only difference is that it's not
Speaker 3: counted election night. It's placed in a provisional envelope until
Speaker 3: teams a bipartisan election officials can verify that the voter
Speaker 3: did not already cast a ballot in the election. It's
Speaker 3: how we ensure one voter, one.
Speaker 1: Vote, so there's no second chance. If Tony says, man,
Speaker 1: I really like what Harris is saying. I love that lady,
Speaker 1: and I voted for Trump and I want to change
Speaker 1: it too bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Once it's been cast either by mail or dropped
Speaker 3: off at the board, same way, when you go to
Speaker 3: your polling place. Yeah, once it's cast, you can't change
Speaker 3: your mind. In fact, once it's removed from the envelope,
Speaker 3: there's no way for US Board of Election officials to
Speaker 3: tie that ballot back to the voter. That's how we
Speaker 3: keep the secrecy of the vote. We have no way
Speaker 3: of tying it back to a voter.
Speaker 1: It's a dollar and a penny to mail it. Tony's poor.
Speaker 1: He puts one little stamp on, doesn't put the extra
Speaker 1: stamp on, or if forgets the stamp it at all,
Speaker 1: what happens? If the ballot doesn't have enough postage or
Speaker 1: no postage, what happens?
Speaker 3: Then the the post office does everything they can to
Speaker 3: get ballots delivered to the Board of Elections.
Speaker 4: But our recommendation is, don't take any risks.
Speaker 3: Make sure you have the appropriate post edge. And for
Speaker 3: this election in Hamilton County that would be two forever
Speaker 3: stamps postage. And I do want to note it differs
Speaker 3: from county to county. It depends on the number of
Speaker 3: sheets and the weight of the ballot paper.
Speaker 1: Now, how many registered voters are there in Hamilton County,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I think the numbers about five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand on my run? How many people are I
Speaker 1: actually registered to vote?
Speaker 3: We actually have a little over six hundred and four
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand yees, yeah, so a little higher than
Speaker 3: what you have predicted. We usually hover somewhere around six hundred,
Speaker 3: a little under six hundred, and it's typical for us
Speaker 3: to be a little over that market presidential election.
Speaker 1: So in the twenty twenty presidential what percent of Hamley
Speaker 1: County residents actually voted? Of the six hundred and four
Speaker 1: thousand approximately in twenty twenty, how many actually voted?
Speaker 3: We have four hundred thirty I'm sorry, four hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty four thousand, nine hundred and fifty six ballots cast.
Speaker 3: That was seventy two percent of the registered voters at
Speaker 3: that time.
Speaker 2: Is that it's not high or low seventy two percent
Speaker 2: of the presidential.
Speaker 3: You know, Hamilton County usually has a pretty good turnout
Speaker 3: for presidentials. We usually have somewhere between seventy and seventy
Speaker 3: four percent, and that's what we're expecting this election as.
Speaker 1: Well, about seventy seventy to seventy percent. Now, let's say
Speaker 1: that here we are on Monday afternoon, about one hundred
Speaker 1: and eight thousand have already voted. Is an equal number
Speaker 1: going to vote between now and next Monday early Do
Speaker 1: you anticipate that number will be over two hundred thousand.
Speaker 4: I think we're going to.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we'll be over two hundred thousand,
Speaker 3: we will will be close. I think we'll definitely be
Speaker 3: over one hundred and fifty thousand. Our early in person
Speaker 3: is just becoming so popular in Hamilton County, and right
Speaker 3: now we're on track to beat our record that we
Speaker 3: set in twenty twenty. So in twenty twenty there are over.
Speaker 4: Eighty thousand voters who cast their ballots early in person
Speaker 4: here at the board.
Speaker 3: We're already beating that pace with still until Sunday next
Speaker 3: Sunday to go, So we think we could hit almost
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand voters just at our early vote center
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: So if some person wants to go to the nordwod
Speaker 1: Hamony County Board of Elections and they show up later
Speaker 1: this afternoon or Tuesday or Wednesday, what is the process?
Speaker 1: I did it one time just for fun, and I
Speaker 1: found it very easy. It was friendly, happy. But let's
Speaker 1: say Tony Bender is on a long bender. He's lost
Speaker 1: over the weekend, he watched the Bengals play. He was
Speaker 1: in person. He wided out. He left in the middle
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. It couldn't take it any more,
Speaker 1: dragging his Bengal stripes behind him. He said, too much
Speaker 1: to drink. Wakes up this morning, or probably wakes up
Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday and saying, no, I'm going to go vote.
Speaker 1: Let's say he drags himself to the Board of Elections.
Speaker 3: What happens, Yeah, it's very similar to voting that you're
Speaker 3: calling place on election day. We will note that our
Speaker 3: vehicle traffic getting into the Board of Elections is heavy
Speaker 3: at times. But once you know, we get you and
Speaker 3: you find a place the park, it's a very quick
Speaker 3: process to get inside and vote. Again, very similar to
Speaker 3: election day. The voter needs to announce their name and
Speaker 3: address to the poll worker and then provide the poll
Speaker 3: worker an acceptable form of ID. I do want to
Speaker 3: note that that's a recent change in Ohio.
Speaker 1: He's got no idea, he's got nothing. He's dragging himself
Speaker 1: in there. He said, I'll give you a year, n example,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a blood test. I got no idea
Speaker 1: at all. What happens that Tony Bender.
Speaker 3: Well, those things are not necessary. All Tony would have
Speaker 3: to do is fill out a provisional envelope. I talked
Speaker 3: a little bit before about a provisional bout. That's a
Speaker 3: ballot that's not counted election night. It's placed in an
Speaker 3: envelope where the voter provides the identifying information as far
Speaker 3: as their name. If they does not have a form
Speaker 3: of ID, that voter actually has until four days after
Speaker 3: election day to provide ID to the Board of Elections.
Speaker 3: So when he goes into vote he doesn't have ID,
Speaker 3: he's offered the provisional ballot, it's voted, it's placed in
Speaker 3: the envelope, it's held into election day. If that voter
Speaker 3: comes to the Board of Elections by the Saturday after
Speaker 3: election day, which is November ninth, by five pm, and
Speaker 3: provides an acceptable form of ID, then his provisional ballot
Speaker 3: is added to the official count, which occurs about two
Speaker 3: to three weeks after election day.
Speaker 1: So even that and that's what happens down the road
Speaker 1: before everything is certified. So let's say November fifth runs
Speaker 1: through without a major problem, and by election night or
Speaker 1: early in the morning, you have the provisional final count.
Speaker 1: One are things finally we got all these thousands of
Speaker 1: provisional ballots. We have other contests to one type or another.
Speaker 1: When is there a final decision in Hamilton County? This
Speaker 1: is the final number. How many weeks does that take?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it takes a few weeks.
Speaker 3: In fact, the Secretary State put all boards of elections
Speaker 3: in Ohio on an expedited schedule, meaning we are all
Speaker 3: required to certify by November twentieth. So that's the date
Speaker 3: that Hamilton County.
Speaker 4: Has set to certify this election. I do want to
Speaker 4: note that in Ohio we have two counts.
Speaker 3: We have the election night count, which is the unofficial count,
Speaker 3: and we keep going election night until we get to
Speaker 3: one hundred percent precincts reporting.
Speaker 4: Then we don't.
Speaker 3: Continue a periodic count over the next two weeks. If
Speaker 3: there's just one additional official count that will occur on
Speaker 3: the twenties.
Speaker 4: What we're doing in that two to three week period
Speaker 4: is we are.
Speaker 3: Verifying the provisionals that are eligible to be added. We
Speaker 3: also are receiving late rising vote by mail ballots. So
Speaker 3: as long as a vote by mail ballot is postmarked
Speaker 3: honor before November fourth and received by Saturday, November ninth,
Speaker 3: that ballot can also be added to the official count.
Speaker 3: So we're conducted balloty accounting, we're ensuring that all of
Speaker 3: the material were returned, we're inspecting them from the polling places,
Speaker 3: and then we're processing those aptanties in those provisionals.
Speaker 4: So that's what's.
Speaker 3: Happening during that two week period after election day, and
Speaker 3: then on the twentieth we will run our official counts
Speaker 3: and have the certified results of this election.
Speaker 1: There's been a lawsuit filed on this. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the resolution. Let's say Tony Bender works as a nurse's
Speaker 1: aid at a nursing home and there's fifty people there
Speaker 1: that are voting. Either they requested it and they got it,
Speaker 1: or they somehow not able to get.
Speaker 2: Out to go vote.
Speaker 1: What is the rule now about shall we say, one
Speaker 1: person gathering dozens and dozens of ballots and putting them
Speaker 1: in the ballot in the drop box.
Speaker 2: What is the rule on that?
Speaker 3: So if you can return a family member's ballot, and
Speaker 3: you can also return anyone can return a voter with
Speaker 3: a disability stout that's a little bit different. So for
Speaker 3: voter with disabilities, they can designate someone other than a
Speaker 3: family member to return their ballot to the Board of Elections,
Speaker 3: but that person delivering that ballot has to either come
Speaker 3: inside or Actually, Hamilton County, we sort of set up
Speaker 3: a bipartisan team that's outside collecting during our busy hours.
Speaker 3: But they have to fill out a form. They have
Speaker 3: to felt this attestation, swearing and affirming that they returned this.
Speaker 4: Particular voter's ballot. So that's what's a little different.
Speaker 3: I will note with nursing homes, we work with every
Speaker 3: nursing home in Hamilton County, and if there's voters who
Speaker 3: are confined to a nursing home and need assistance in voting,
Speaker 3: we send a bipartisan team out to that nursing home.
Speaker 3: And it's a bipartisan sworn election officials that simply do
Speaker 3: nothing but read the ballot verbatim and then mark the ballot.
Speaker 4: So we actually to have election officials that take care of.
Speaker 1: That sounds like voter suppression to me, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it sounds like a lot of suppression going on. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: Sherry Poland, thank you. Do you have any questions for me?
Speaker 1: I've been quizzing you the last twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 1: Do you have any questions for me about politics, sports,
Speaker 1: world capitals. Something has confused you over the years. I
Speaker 1: can help you with.
Speaker 3: I think you've answered all my questions.
Speaker 1: And how much long are you going to do this?
Speaker 1: Because I talked to Democrats, talk to Republicans. Sure the
Speaker 1: best there is. How much more time do you have
Speaker 1: left to serve? And are you Are you proud about
Speaker 1: what you've done at Hamilty County Board of Elections.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm so proud of the bipartisan team that we
Speaker 3: have here at the Board of Elections.
Speaker 4: I really am.
Speaker 3: It's something that's pretty incredible to watch. It's Democrats and
Speaker 3: Republicans who put their politics aside when they come here
Speaker 3: to work because we just focus on a common goal
Speaker 3: that we all have and not the administering a free
Speaker 3: and fire election. So I'm extremely proud to be a
Speaker 3: part of this team.
Speaker 1: Well, with your permission, maybe next week I'll check in,
Speaker 1: But right now, one hundred and eight thousand voted fifty
Speaker 1: seven thousand, early fifty in person, and you anticipate a turnout,
Speaker 1: you might get to two hundred thousand, but probably not
Speaker 1: close to that. And in the last election, seventy two
Speaker 1: percent voted in twenty twenty. You hope to get closed
Speaker 1: for more than that number in twenty twenty four. Sherry Poland,
Speaker 1: once again, you're the best of what you do. And
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And
Speaker 1: if you thought about controlling the Bengals, would you consider
Speaker 1: becoming the general manager of the Bengals if offered.
Speaker 4: That is not my area of expertise.
Speaker 1: Nor is it Mike Brown's area of expertise. So that's
Speaker 1: a bigger problem. But nonetheless, Sherry Poland, once again, thank
Speaker 1: you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.
Speaker 2: And God bless you, thank you, Sherry, thank.
Speaker 4: You, thank you, thank you for having me.
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