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Thank you.

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And good morning to the commissioners.

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My name is Stephanie Draper, and I have been a

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resident of Denton County for over 20 years.

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Now I have also been an election judge.

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And I can tell you right now, that is only

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two things are the hardest part of being an
election

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judge.

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Yeah.

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One is you got to make sure that you got

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all the counts and you haven't missed
anything.

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The second one is when you have to turn people

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away to vote.

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That hurts my heart when people take the time
off

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of work, try to leave school to go out to

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go and vote, and they get turned away.

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For an example, I was an election judge over
in

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Louisville, and right there in the center,
there's like this

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one precinct here and another one a little bit
like

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15, 20 minutes away.

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I had a student that came through there and
they

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were so excited because this is their second
time to

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do their civic duty.

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I had to turn them away.

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And they're like, Miss Stephanie, I'm sorry,
but I have

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to go back to school.

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I don't know if I'm gonna be able to come

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back to go vote before 7 o'clock deadline.

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So we probably missed that vote.

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Then we had a disabled person that took a
minute

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to get out of his car, get on the get

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in get into his motorized wheelchair just to
go up

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the ramp and be told, I'm sorry, sir, they
moved

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you from the courthouse, you gotta go to the
church.

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And he told me, he's like, why can't y'all get

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it together?

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This is not a Republican problem or a Democrat
problem.

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This is a people problem, and we need to fix

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it, and we need to fix it now.

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So I'm asking y'all to please put that on your

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agenda to make sure that we can have voting
centers

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throughout the county on election day to help
the people

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because Denton is growing and it's growing
fast.

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Thank y'all for your time.