1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,920 Apologies, I meant to show up last week, but life 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:03,440 uh kind of got in the way. 3 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,520 Uh good morning, fellow county commissioners. 4 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:07,040 I've left my entire speech at home, so I'm gonna 5 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:08,880 try to do this ad hoc off my head. 6 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,600 Uh just like our good friend here who just spoke 7 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,280 here to advocate for countywide voting on election day. 8 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,520 You know, we have uh countywide voting during the early 9 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,080 voting period, but not on the last day to vote. 10 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:22,240 It's very confusing to a lot of people. 11 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:24,800 We're seeing a lot of people getting redirected. 12 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,640 I understand that there have been some people who have 13 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,080 advocated for the other way around. 14 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,320 I know that the uh Madam Chair of the Denton 15 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,840 County Republican Party was trying to somehow say that if 16 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,000 we that not having countywide voting on election day is 17 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,960 an opportunity for precinct chairs to somehow get more involved 18 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,240 with uh our elections. 19 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,880 But I'll tell you this as a former precinct chair 20 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,640 myself, uh you cannot loiter in front of a vote 21 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:49,680 a voting location. 22 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:51,840 Trust me, I tried to do poll greeting the first 23 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,040 time I tried it uh doing it. 24 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,280 I forgot that you're not allowed to stand within 100 25 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,080 feet of the door. 26 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,320 And uh you'll get reminded real quick if you uh 27 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:59,600 not know that. 28 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,960 Um I understand that some will say that accessibility 29 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:08,960 will somehow lead to uh insecurity in our voting systems. 30 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,280 But if someone wants to make that claim, I would 31 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,600 challenge them as to saying why accessibility somehow leads to 32 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:16,400 insecurity. 33 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,360 We should be able to have both security and accessibility 34 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:20,080 at the same time. 35 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,720 In fact, it's the job of this court to maintain 36 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,440 the security of our elections. 37 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,960 Uh this is a huge problem, particularly in Frisco, Texas, 38 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:32,400 because in Frisco, you know, we have part of our 39 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,960 city in Denton County, the other part of Frisco in 40 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:35,760 Collin County. 41 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,160 And there's a lot of Frisco residents that accidentally jump 42 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:39,520 over the county line. 43 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,480 And when they when a Denton resident goes to Collin 44 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,120 County, they get redirected back into our county, but not 45 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,240 all the election workers in Collin County necessarily know the 46 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,680 correct location for the polling location for each individual in 47 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:52,480 Denton County. 48 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,200 And so we're seeing some sometimes people get redirected multiple 49 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,800 times when a when a Denton resident accidentally goes to 50 00:01:58,800 --> 00:01:59,480 Collin County. 51 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:01,320 g Itets redi rerecditedrected back to Denton County, but it 52 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,280 shows it to the wrong voting location, they get again. 53 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:05,240 It's very frustrating 54 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:06,600 And I'll be honest with you guys, I don't want 55 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,800 to sound cynical, but it feels like voter suppression. 56 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,040 It's a huge problem, particularly in Frisco. 57 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:13,640 Now I'm going to switch gears a little bit to 58 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:14,760 a completely separate topic. 59 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,680 I do want to give a good thank you to 60 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,600 uh one of our members here when it comes to 61 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:19,160 Frisco. 62 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,280 Frisco has been having some really dark days, particularly in 63 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:23,400 our our city council. 64 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,320 And I want to give a special thanks to uh 65 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,800 someone who showed up and gave some words of common 66 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,680 sense um to uh the Frisco City Council. 67 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,760 Things have gotten so bad at the Frisco City Council 68 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,240 that they have actually terminated their citizens' input uh for 69 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,640 the foreseeable future um because of horrible rhetoric that's been 70 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,920 stated during the uh the citizen citizens input uh during 71 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:43,400 that time. 72 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,080 But I want to thank you for your your words 73 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:46,920 of common sense, uh Commissioner. 74 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:48,440 Um and I want to thank you all for your 75 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:49,560 time and the hard work that you do. 76 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:50,120 Thank you. 77 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:50,600 Thank you. 78 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:51,480 Thank you for being here. 79 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:54,280 Thank you, Mr. 80 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:54,840 Frey. 81 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,840 Thank you for being here for expressing your comments. 82 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,240 We appreciate that.