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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, You're welcoming back to the fifty five KARS
Speaker 2: Morning Show. We get her every election season and it's
Speaker 2: coming at us like a freight train. Welcome back from
Speaker 2: the Hamilton County Bard of Elections, Sherry Poland, always great
Speaker 2: having you on the program.
Speaker 1: Good morning, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Let me start off by thanking you and everyone at
Speaker 2: the Hamilton County Board of Elections. I think the last
Speaker 2: couple of elections we've gone down to early vote, you know,
Speaker 2: get the car load of the family members and zip
Speaker 2: on down there with my son and daughter. It is
Speaker 2: such a well oiled machine. Even times when I have voted,
Speaker 2: when there's a line out the door, that line moves.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're not outside very long if there is
Speaker 2: a line, so don't let it discourage you. Plenty of parking,
Speaker 2: such a major improvement over the prior location, and you
Speaker 2: got a wonderful website that answers everybody's any possible question
Speaker 2: you could have about it, which is vote Hamilton County,
Speaker 2: Ohio dot gov, Sherry polland congratulations on the wonderful work
Speaker 2: that you're doing it. So, like I said, a very
Speaker 2: well oiled machine. So with that in mind, early votings
Speaker 2: fast approaching. What day are we going to start voting?
Speaker 3: Yes, voting begins on October eighth. That is the day
Speaker 3: we open our doors for early in person voting that
Speaker 3: you just talked about, and that's also the day we
Speaker 3: begin mailing absentee ballots to those voters who have requested.
Speaker 2: Wye okay, absentee voutes go out on the early voting
Speaker 2: start date. That's a good question to answer. I was
Speaker 2: kind of wondering about that now insofar as getting registered.
Speaker 2: If I mean someone's going on, I got to get registered,
Speaker 2: how do they go about doing that? And how do
Speaker 2: they go about updating their their voter information because if
Speaker 2: you changed address things like that, you need to update
Speaker 2: your voter role.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's a great question because that's the first deadline
Speaker 3: that we're concerned about with this election because it's fast approaching.
Speaker 3: So for those citizens that have not yet registered to
Speaker 3: vote in the state of Ohio, The deadline is October seventh.
Speaker 1: It's easy to do.
Speaker 3: Folks can register online by going to our website. You
Speaker 3: just gave that website, I'll give it again. Vote Hamilton County,
Speaker 3: Ohio dot gov. When registering online, citizens do need to
Speaker 3: provide two forms of ID, both driver's license number or
Speaker 3: State of Ohio Identification Card number and the last for
Speaker 3: digits of their socials, so when you know, it's an
Speaker 3: extra layer of security. When folks are registering online, they
Speaker 3: can also register at their local Bureau motor Vehicle at
Speaker 3: a public library, they can come here to the Board
Speaker 3: of Elections. When registering using a paper form, only one
Speaker 3: form of ID is required, and on Monday, October seventh,
Speaker 3: our board will be open until nine pm to register
Speaker 3: people to vote.
Speaker 2: Sure you mentioned you need a photo, a proper photo ID,
Speaker 2: the state issued idea or the driver's license to register online.
Speaker 2: How do you get the driver's license information in when
Speaker 2: you when you're registering online? Is it just your driver's
Speaker 2: license number? Do you have to scan it or how
Speaker 2: does that work?
Speaker 1: It's just your driver's license number.
Speaker 3: You input your driver's license number when you go to
Speaker 3: our website, it'll actually take you to the Secretary of
Speaker 3: State's website. The state wide voter registration database communicates with
Speaker 3: a BUA Motor Vehicle database. They share inform, they share
Speaker 3: data and information, so when you register online, that's why
Speaker 3: you have to have both forms of ID, and then
Speaker 3: we use the signature that you have on file with
Speaker 3: the BUA Motor Vehicles.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, And in terms of your hours of operation,
Speaker 2: you're normally eight to five Monday through Friday. I see
Speaker 2: you have eight to four pm hours on Saturday. This
Speaker 2: is after early voting starts, but you're also open on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I was amazed to see that.
Speaker 3: Yes, so our normal office hours are actually eight am
Speaker 3: to four pm. And then when once early voting starts
Speaker 3: on October eighth, early voting is from eight to five.
Speaker 3: And then the closer we get to the election day,
Speaker 3: the more extended hours we have for early voting. So
Speaker 3: the first two weeks is eight to five Monday through Friday.
Speaker 3: The third week is eight to six, the fourth week
Speaker 3: it's actually eight to I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's actually seventh thirty to seven thirty.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and then we're open, like you mentioned, we're
Speaker 3: actually opening because it's a presidential year. The two weekends before,
Speaker 3: so two Saturdays and two Sundays people have the opportunity
Speaker 3: to vote.
Speaker 1: You know, the hours changed throughout.
Speaker 3: The month, so I highly recommend people go onto our
Speaker 3: website and get the scheduled.
Speaker 2: It's a really easy website to navigate. Again, I'll give
Speaker 2: you props for making it so easy for my listeners
Speaker 2: and everybody else vote. Hamilton County, Ohio dot gov. Now
Speaker 2: moving over to the all important subject of poll workers here,
Speaker 2: Sherry Poland, let me guess you're in need of poll
Speaker 2: workers for the upcoming election.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we are, and you know, I know it's
Speaker 1: a long day.
Speaker 3: I think that's the that's the reason we are given
Speaker 3: most on why people do not want to work the polls.
Speaker 1: And we understand, lame.
Speaker 3: The team here at the Board of Elections arise at
Speaker 3: the Board of Elections before the poll workers get to
Speaker 3: the polls, and we're here for hours after the poll
Speaker 3: workers have gotten home. So I understand it's a long day.
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this one will go quickly because
Speaker 3: you'll be busy. Yeah, and it's you know it will.
Speaker 3: And you know we typically see high turnouts and presidential
Speaker 3: elections Hamilton County. You know usually somewhere between seventy and
Speaker 3: seventy four percent, So that's good. You are paid for
Speaker 3: your work. And actually, earlier this year, our Board of Elections,
Speaker 3: along with the Board of County Commissioners, gave the poll
Speaker 3: workers a raise. Poll workers now make two hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty five dollars for their service, and if you have
Speaker 3: a manager's position and with additional responsibilities, you'll make up
Speaker 3: to two hundred and seventy five dollars. So you are
Speaker 3: paid for your work. It's a great reserve your community,
Speaker 3: and it's not a difficult job. We really do everything
Speaker 3: we can to support the poll workers. We train them
Speaker 3: and then we have a special help desk line dedicated
Speaker 3: just to them for their questions on election day.
Speaker 2: Well, and I can only go back go to the
Speaker 2: experience of my wife and some of my other friends
Speaker 2: have had working the polls. I don't ever recall hearing
Speaker 2: about anything involving confrontations or arguments that I think. The
Speaker 2: people who volunteer to be poll workers are in it
Speaker 2: for all the right reasons, and the motivations are pure
Speaker 2: and clear. They want and maintain the integrity of the vote.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter what party you are You're there
Speaker 2: to do a job on behalf of the public and
Speaker 2: the voters. So yeah, I mean low likelihood of anything
Speaker 2: going wrong. I would imagine Sherry, that.
Speaker 1: Is so true.
Speaker 3: It is very rare that we have any type of
Speaker 3: problems amongst the poll workers. It's just like the team
Speaker 3: here at the Board of Elections that I'm so proud
Speaker 3: to be a part of. It's Democrats and Republicans. We
Speaker 3: put our politics aside when we walk into the board
Speaker 3: and poll workers do the same when they walk into
Speaker 3: that location because we all have a common goal, and
Speaker 3: that is to administer affair and free election.
Speaker 2: Vote Hamilton County, Ohio dot gov. All the information you
Speaker 2: whatever need in terms of getting registered, changing your address,
Speaker 2: updating your information, and of course all the information on
Speaker 2: the dates and times when you can start early voting.
Speaker 2: Jerry Poland thank you again on behalf of all my
Speaker 2: listeners and the folks in Hamilton County for the hard
Speaker 2: work that you do each and every year, and for
Speaker 2: providing this information today on the morning show. And get
Speaker 2: in to vote and get out to vote. You got
Speaker 2: to get registered to do it, So get over to vote.
Speaker 2: Hamilton County, Ohio dot gov. Sherry, have a wonderful day
Speaker 2: and best of luck as we fast approach November.
Speaker 1: Thanks Brian, I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 2: On'm happy to do it. Happy to do it. You're
Speaker 2: always welcome here in the morning. Shoot, it's eight fourteen, folks.
Speaker 2: If if I have care see the talk station, you
Speaker 2: know it we're going to pull. Is rewarding too, Don't
Speaker 2: give me a phrasing button on that streker. It is rewarding.
Speaker 2: You're helping out. And you know, if you don't do
Speaker 2: anything by way of campaigning, door knocking, working for candidates, whatever,
Speaker 2: the integrity the election, most notably in this presidential election
Speaker 2: year is very very important. So it's nice to know
Speaker 2: that you've got both parties there keeping an eye on
Speaker 2: things and making sure people are minding their p's and q's.
Speaker 2: And that's the job of a poll worker. Okay, let
Speaker 2: us move along. We got a little bit to talk
Speaker 2: about before we get to the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: Phil Kerpen's going to join the program at eight thirty.
Speaker 2: Sadly and please thoughts prayers to Jay Ratliffe and his family.
Speaker 2: Jay's father passed earlier this week, and Jay dearly loved
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Speaker 2: alive as long as he was considering the age. But
Speaker 2: he did pass away, so he won't be joining us
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