Vicki Davis, Martin County Supervisor of Elections

good evening first and foremost I want to thank you everyone for showing up tonight we're kicking off our season of uh speakers uh today and we've got the whole season booked up for you so I'm looking forward to having you all and others come you know grab a friend tie them to your tie them to your bumper if you have to bring them along uh the museum survives based on your participation and I know I'm preach preaching to the crowd right now but uh our desire to reach out and share our culture and our history with the community is very much dependent upon uh membership and folks coming through and visiting with us so when

you're out there share the word uh next month our speaker is going to be Mark Perry from the Oceanographic Society and I understand his topic is the uh indigenous people of Hutcherson Island at least historical people from Hutcherson Island so that's going to be real good both of them both of them would would that be doc uh week the month following that we've got uh the Wexler family is going to be here Wexler and Keith family talking about the family history here in town so that that promises to be a informative and enlightening presentation i hope everyone shows up for that as well now we will not have a event in uh December but we

will have an open house on Friday November 27th uh that is the same time as the uh downtown tree lighting their tree lighting starts at 4:00 and we're going to have an open house from 1 to 4 so I hope you all will come through and and share get the holiday started with us on November 27th and that's all I've got for you now Vicky Davis has agreed to be our speaker this month we are thrilled to have her we'd love to get her more involved in the museum but she says not yet that'll come uh and I could try and stand up and tell you all about her but I don't have all that

information but she assures me she'll introduce herself when she comes up vicki well thank you all for being here tonight i'm taking a little different approach i I will get to elections but I'm going to take you on a little journey personal journey how I how I came here how I came to to be supervisor of elections so you think you know people and yet we all have our own story so I'm going to share my story with you tonight and how I became one of these gatekeepers of democracy so up here at the top Mr earl was our first registar of elections here in Martin County from 1925 to 1932 and then where's Bruce

bruce Bruce lives where Bruceley right there the Blakesley house over on California so he's invited all of us over after after this meeting um I'm just kidding uh so Mr blakesley became the registar in 1932 to 43 and as Bruce said earlier when he and I were chatting Mr blakesley drowned in the river yes no it's documented sy's shaking her head yes too um but yes I've I've read articles he did and so when he passed away his wife became the supervisor of elections in Martin County until 1964 and then how many of you remember Miss Isabelle Evans Smith she became the supervisor of elections followed by Sandy Randolph and then I think we all

know and remember Peggy and Peggy was my predecessor she served for almost 28 years as supervisor of elections carrie oh let me introduce Carrie this Carrie stand up and wave this is Carrie Anderson car's Carrie is chief deputy at the office she's been with me for 21 years and um comes from the Anderson family here in in Martin County and then my husband Joe over here so this is where my story begins and I'm going to come over here because I want to read just a little bit of this to you we go back on my mother's father's side to the Moniocas and John Monioa I was always told that he came over from Spain

he did not he was born in Cuba in looking at the different census records from 1840s,50s,60s it's documented that he was born in Cuba but he became a an interpreter of the Indian lang the simol language for during the Indian war for the American troops and lived in Fort Brookke in Tampa so he was known as captain John Monioa because he was actually a mariner he um captained a boat and so it says Captain John Monoka and this was written in a publication that came out in Tampa um John Monioa the Indian agent Captain Monoka is better posted as to what is going on among the Indians than any man in the state and we

believe what he says we believe that Tiger Tale hung himself and that Long Tiger is now the chief so he became that interpreter and guide for the American army during that time during the Indian War this is John Monioa Jr one of his sons they had three he and his seinal wife had three children and three three sons so this is my great greatgrandfather he's my great greatgrandfather and he married wealthy Ann Lewis and they had 14 children yeah so they lived in Pulk County and um the oldest was Victoria Curi go on and Victoria is right here um this is my grandfather my grandmother grandma and granddaddy had 13 children and then they fostered

two of the boys from the Brighton Indian Reservation and that's Joe Josai and that's him up here with Grandma and Stanlo John's who um Stanlo and Josiah were c first cousins and they lived at Brighton and the way that they actually came to live especially Joe lived with grandma and granddaddy they were pioneer settlers of the CMI River and they had a fish camp but even before that um Joe's mother and some of some of the men and and different women from the tribe in Brighton they came out to the property that grandma and granddaddy had on the river and they were helping what we would call grub palmeta roots and so instead of going

back and forth every night they just pitched camp there at the river at the house and um he became real attached to my grandfather so he would follow him around he didn't want to leave and his mom took him back to the reservation but then mama said that probably oh I don't know several weeks later they got a knock on the door grandma went to the door and there was his mom with him and just a brown paper sack with a change of clothes so he just stayed on went to school in Lake Placid with the rest of the kids so this is Stanlo and my mom um that was at a family reunion might

have been this one i'm not sure that's just a part of the family um but Stanlo he became the agriculture director for the Brighton tribe so um they're both gone and there were three of the 13 in this picture and we're down to just one left out of the 13 so okay Carrie so I'm rooted in agriculture uh my father was born in Hardy County and he managed packing houses and we were basically a migrant family um dad would go wherever the work was mom made sure that we myself and my two brothers finished school and as soon as school was out in the summer we would first go to Basin North Carolina when I

was old enough to stand on a box at a grading belt in a packing house and this is more of a modern packing house in Fasin um I was graating cucumbers and my two brothers were working also when we finished in FAN we would then leave and go up to South Haven Michigan and we had friends that had blueberries blueberry patches i don't even know that they were patches it was blueberry fields we didn't work blueberries we worked cucumbers and there was a small co-op of farmers that grew cucumbers and dad would manage their packing house we loved it as kids we We didn't know any different we thought it was great um yeah we

had a great time so what brought us to Martin County was for two reasons um because I was born in Hardy and my two brothers we moved to Pompo whenever I was five because of the farmers market and we moved here in ' 67 so two reasons mr zerella he contacted dad he if you're familiar with Zerella Farms going back he had all this is all Zorella property um he grew cucumbers and he asked dad to manage his packing house he also I I think most of you probably remember him most for growing cabbage and the cabbage packing house is now ranch feed on citrus so that's one reason the second reason that we came

is mom's sister Aunt Candy who was probably three four years older than mama um she had a citrus shop in Lake Worth on the square for many years so these are pictures of her citrus shop there and here if you go on next Governor Burns who is right here he was only governor for two years but he approached St handy and asked her if she would consider piloting a citrus shop on the Fort Pierce Plaza of the Turnpike for 6 months and she agreed but she made a deal with him she said "I" and I had forgotten about this until recently she said "I will do that if you will do something for my mama

and daddy." and he asked what it was and she said "I will open up a citrus shop if you will pave the road it's called It was called NineM Grade." Um that led out to out to the river because you would get stuck when it was dry and you would get stuck when it was wet and they lived about halfway down nine mile grade so I can remember many times getting out helping push the car out of out of a rut out of a ditch um out of a hole so he did that and and it's paved today but this is my aunt Re and Governor Governor Burns and his wife Mildred they had to

stop by the shop um he was the director I believe of the department of transportation because when you had a citrus shop on the turnpike you had to contract you had to lease with do and um this was just a six-month experience so um they were all interested in the success of it so this is me in the middle so when I was 13 I started working on the turnpike in the citrus shop instead of having to go to a packing house so but I still had to pack oranges and juice and all of that okay Carrie so these are more pictures of of that first shop which was temporary because it beca it was

so successful then the governor um built permanent shops on all seven plazas on the turnpike so this is my mom and aunt Aunt Candy and Aunt Irene aunt Rene um she her her name is Irene but um her her oldest son her son Clifford he has a ranch here in in Martin County the old Chastain box ranch so uh but it was the first citrus shop i've turned these pictures and others over to Florida Southern College because they're the archivist for citrus in the state of Florida they didn't know anything about the citrus shops on the turnpike so what year was that 60 that would have been 66 65 66 yep 66 so going on

um I did run for school board my predecessor Peggy was a school board member sitting school board member when she was appointed by the governor to supervisor of elections so I served from 96 to 2004 and I think you probably all probably know that's Dr david Kir's uncle in the middle myself Lori Gaylord Sue Hershey and Lori Shao so I served with all of them for number of years okay here and then like this says a new chapter in public service i was elected in ' 04 sworn in in ' 05 and um this this is the picture I think most of you will remember because this is the entrance to the office the supervisor

of elections office on the fourth floor of the courthouse and when I took office um that's where we were located we had there were no doors those were the only doors and then there was a door to um a closet and a door to the bathroom and that was it so everything was all open and the equipment was stored at BNA flea market we didn't have a location for um training our pole workers and Gloria's been a pole worker um Miss Winnie Kathy's been a pole worker who else has been a pole worker anybody else but we're required by law to train our pole workers prior to every election so when I came into office

my goal was to bring everything under one roof and curious is that the next Yeah so Johnny where's Johnny do you re you recognize this building because your your dad Yeah but your dad built it in 1958 and yes it was this is a dedication when it was built and it was the post office how many of you remember when it was the post office i do yeah and um it was on they were only in the building for 10 years and then moved to their current location so when we moved in we had a ribbon cutting but you probably remember those of you who remember the post office some of these different pictures there

was a a phone booth down at the end of the building also so I love that building so we've gone from lever machines to where we are today on the right with our DS300's so we've come a long way and it was the election of 2000 that really changed the equipment and it was 537 vote difference in 2000 the Bush Bush vGore the Bush Gore election and after that election everybody loves the old lever machines how many I I hear it all the time i love those machines i wish we'd go back to those machines they were descertified by Congress after the 2000 election and in 2002 Peggy purchased because we had to had to

transition uh the electronic touchscreen equipment and then Governor Christ became governor 2008 he said "I want every county in the state of Florida to have a paper ballot." So the equipment that we have and throughout the state has paper ballots we have to maintain those ballots for 22 months after every election so I think it's next week or the week after we'll bring a mobile shredder in and um we'll actually get rid of the general election of 2024 on site staff will be there at all times so Okay Carrie and people ask what what do you do um when you when you're not working in elections we are busy all the time elections have completely

changed over the years when I came in 20 almost 22 years ago now I was talking to Citrus County Supervisor and she said just wait she said things things change and uh she said when she came into office four years before me in off elections her her predecessors would sit and they would knit and crochet and do that type of thing we don't sit and crochet let me tell you there is a lot of work that has to be done the legislature is always changing election law and um so we're always having to adjust we're having to change elections is all about security and it's it's not just securing the ballot itself which which we

are required to do but the building that that we saw it has to be secured we were the first building in the county to have two-factor authentication um for access into the building and throughout the building and we encourage you to come on a tour of the building as well um we're giving a tour tomorrow as a matter of fact so um it's getting harder and hard harder to locate and acquire polling locations currently we have 29 precincts diane's here um she was the clerk yeah diane's pole worker um she was a clerk at TC3 Church and an older gentleman tripped over one of the curb stops and the church said can't we can't use

them any longer so uh that's why we've had to make changes in that area but yeah but it's we're always busy carrie so these are our registered voters 116,479 and you can see how many are registered Republicans registered Democrats almost 24,000 and then the other categories the really growing category and it's not just in Martin County it's a national trend and the majority of those in the other category are voters who are registered with no party affiliation and that's all great and well and good until you come to a primary and then we have voters come in every primary you changed my party i have always been registered as a Republican or I have always

been registered as a Democrat and we have to issue them the ballot style according to their party affiliation florida is a closed primary state so um yeah we we get to deal with those folks on election day and throughout the election cycle looking back at the 22 midterm elections um in Martin County in 22 you can in the primary you can see what the turnout was and I think the next slide shows what we had for this last last time not yet but um uh in 22 general I think we had a 60 62% turnout and Kiri go on to the next one oh so what we had the turnout that we had for this

past primary election in in Martin was above the state average state average was 25% which is pathetic we had almost a 29% turnout in Martin County and um we're planning for a 65 to 70% turnout we always go higher um when we're when we're planning so hopefully we'll have a 65% turnout so it's really important to get out and vote and especially in a primary and Gloria we were talking about that um how important it is to vote in a primary because most of our local elections are decided in a primary election so okay so the upcoming election is November 3rd we'll have early voting in six different sites our elections office all of the

libraries with the exception of the Blake because we use our election office so 8 am to 5:00 pm for those 11 days and um I would encourage you to get out and vote early in person there are three ways to vote in the state of Florida and as you all know you have to show identification when you go to vote you need signed photo ID florida's had an identification requirement since 1977 and um when the Motor Voter Act passed in the '9s then a photo was required so if you look at your voter card you might still have the Peggy's card kiri had her still has hers she's archived it the green card it had

a place for you to sign so when Motor Voter Act passed those became antiquated we couldn't use them anymore you receive now a voter information card because you need signed photo identification a signature and a photograph so that's when you're voting in person voting by mail we don't just blanket mail out ballots you have to request a vote by mail ballot and for this election we'll start mailing in just 16 days september 24th is our first day that we'll mail our domestic ballots next week we'll get our UAV our military and overseas ballots out in the mail and we can mail by law until October 22nd because people have to have time to receive their

ballot vote it and then turn it around and get it back to us so early voting and then election day of course and you do have to vote at your assigned precinct in Florida on election day so we have our early voting sites they're inundated with voters on election day because that's they think that's their assigned precinct so um it's not it's an early voting site it could be it could be but um some of the time a lot of the time they have to be directed off to their assigned um polling location okay here how often do you have to call to request a vote by mail how often do you have to call

to request a vote by mail ballot every election cycle yes so December 31st if you've requested a vote by mail ballot for this election your request is going to expire so you could call us in January of 27 and sign up for the 28 election cycle so it's every two years yes so let's say that um I've got a vote by mail card and I can't find it so can I go in and vote in person yep the question is if you requested a vote by mail ballot you change your mind you don't want to vote it something's happened to it you can't find it can you still go in and vote in person and

the answer is yes well how is that protected how can how can um why can't somebody else vote that ballot uh and return that ballot when you go in and you check in in person the system is going to alert Diane and whoever is working as a pole worker that that voter has requested a vote by mail ballot and as soon as they sign that signature pad their vote is cast they're already marked in the system that they've voted so even if if it were to show up and we have situations almost every election where someone we mail ballots 40 days before election day you receive your ballot in the mail in just a day

or two you vote it you put it back in the mail and then there's all this hype you got to go vote you got to go vote we have people that'll show up to vote in person and we've already received their ballot the system tells that pole worker they've already voted by mail so then what I recommend is that voter comes to the office we go get their envelope and show them their envelope with their signature because we're One other question sure pretty prominent news so how do you think Florida will do as far as the fun Yeah um everybody all election officials are are waiting to hear what's going to happen with the Supreme

Court with the ruling i there's not time uh North Carolina their ballots went out in the bail in the mail Friday and um our ballots like you saw go out in just 16 days we're right now folding our ballots and and putting them in their envelopes with the secrecy sleeve getting them ready for postal business as usual that's the directive we received from the Division of Elections a week or so ago business as usual yeah so yeah there's a lot of chaos right now a lot of concern over voting by mail and um I would recommend if you do request a vote by mail ballot vote it and bring it to the office or drop

it at early voting site um those ballots from an early voting site come into us every night and um then they go into a vault and the next day we're we're checking those signatures on those ballot envelopes to make sure that it's not mismatched or a signature is missing because if it's missing or mismatched we're contacting that voter to get them to come cure their signature so there the ballot is is a long ballot um but it's only a 14 inch just like the primary ballot but it's front and back so make sure you turn it over on the back because uh the amendments depend trying to think if the amendments are on the back

or on the front i'd have to look but there are amendments three of them there are all three from the Florida legislature uh a budget stabilization amendment i I'm not even sure i have to I haven't even had time to read them um the second one is to exempt tangible personal property on agricultural land from taxation and then the third amendment is the big amendment it's um increasing homestead exemption so it would be increased by 150,000 the first year 250,000 the second year and then it would there would be a cola increase um in in prior years it does take 60% of the vote for constitutional amendments to pass and um so we'll see what

happens but it's kind of sounding like amendment three is going to going to happen somebody had a question okay so our building we love our building and um we thank Mr jock Leighton for building that that facility and the county commission did approve that um there would be they're going to build an addition on the west side of the building and that's going to be for our training and for our canvasing board and I really do like to talk about canvasing board because it's made up of three individuals and those three people certifi they oversee the election process and they certify the election it's not just up to me and my staff canvasing board statutoily

is made up of a county judge my judge is Judge Kathleen Roberts she's been with me for 21 years and uh CA canvasing is also made up of a county commissioner the commissioner this year is Ed Campy this election cycle and an alternate his alternate is Eileen Vargas and the alternates for Judge Roberts are the two other sitting county um judges Judge Steel and Judge Waters so after the election they'll start on on the um addition to the building so we're excited and next chapter begins that's that's our grand oldest grandchild Cash and Cash pre-registered to vote students can pre-register at the ages of 16 and 17 and I think it was the day after

he turned 16 he came in and registered to vote and it was a proud moment for his grandma and then um one of our staff her daughter had to take a civics class and for work and I just thought this was it kind of tied in because don't let Florida man decide your future squeeze the most out of your vote and down here it says the reason three reasons to make your voice heard is keep your community fresh local elections decide the funding for schools for neighborhood roads state parks different um different reasons to vote locally protect the sunshine state and be a Florida voter the good kind with high voter turnout it ensures that

state leaders take our community seriously don't let your voice get swallowed by the swamp so we've got our alligators there and our citrus there and our flamingos and so any questions I can answer for you Sandy i've had some all along but the first one early in your show was "Was your greatgrandfather married to a full-blooded seinal woman?" Yeah she he was he was married twice um that was my great greatgrandfather he he married a simol Indian um I don't I don't know her first name she passed away young and they had a daughter Victoria who married John John Delane Delani um he was the second postmaster of Tampa and um and then my greatgrandfather

and then he remarried after that and had the three sons uh Charles Manuel and John Jr juan Jr it's not your she's not your direct she's not but the other one is and she was a seol as well two seinals that's how he knew the language that's how he became an interpreter and guide cool amazing they lived in Fort Brook towards the end and and I had this one um letter from one of the captains at Fort Brooke that he was he was asking the governor to to um exempt three or four men and and Juan Montesio was one of them because they were of asset to to the company to the army um to

keep them from being deployed to Oklahoma because it was during that time they were they were deploying the Indians the seinals the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma yeah so um then the other question I had way later was about the people that didn't were were they mad because they couldn't vote Democrat or Republican and they had they deliberately said they didn't want an affiliation right a lot of a lot of people don't understand right they don't understand the process um and most of the most of the voter registration takes place at the tax collector's office and they do a good job um but we try to explain if you register you know with not with

one of the major parties that it will limit your ability in a primary and um yes it it upsets them because there's a a certain candidate that they really want to vote for and it's not on their ballot and um yeah so we get to deal with all those voters yes Diane interesting enough when um when we had people that were very angry because no they did not say no party affiliation we could call down to the office they could look up and tell us the date that they registered and where they registered so I mean it wasn't like somebody else changed something for them our office is so good working at the site no

matter what comes up you call them they take care of the problem it's wonderful i like for us at the site we could look up and see if the person was registered anywhere in Martin County maybe not at this precinct but at another precinct but when we call down to the office they can find out if they're registered anywhere in the state it becomes really interesting because we've had college students that registered in their college town but they live here and so when we call them they can do a change of address right in the office get the kid registered to vote in Martin County and then we hand them a ballot and they get

to vote within 10 minutes of the phone call i mean it is so efficient because the and the kid could show that his his permanent address was at home and like I said but he was registered in in I think Orange County and they could find that they knew he had the information they got his address changed and we could let him vote right there yeah it since 20 thou since the election of 2000 2002 all all states were mandated to have a statewide voter database so Florida it's it's now just an address change as Diane said from one county to another if you're coming in from another state it's a new voter registration but

moving from one county to another it's it's just an address change and we can do that on election day so Diane does an awesome job thank you Diane any other questions while you have me captive here what about the other way okay so did I understand you say that you look at the mail-in ballots to make sure they are signed properly and you call them and have give them another chance it's not that we give them another chance they can't fill out another ballot the question was so you look at every signature on every ballot envelope for those voters that vote by mail and the answer is yes we're required to do that by law

but we are also required if the signature doesn't match we we call that voter a a letter goes out immediately then whatever means we have to contact them we make a phone call we text them we email them they can sign an affidavit and they have to provide us with a copy of their identification and then that goes to the canvasing board for the board to determine if that's going to count or not and you don't count them until election oh no we start counting the vote by mail ballots ahead of election day in Florida yeah um our counties to the south of us that have a over a million registered voters there's no way

um that they could get all of those ballots counted because 30 minutes after the polls close we're required to transmit our early vote totals and our vote by mail totals to the Division of Elections in Tallahassee every 45 minutes thereafter precinct results ours are usually out before 8:00 so any other Gloria you had about um if you want to change your party what's the deadline the deadline to change your party yep the deadline to change your party see Gloria knows all this good stuff 29 days before election day 29 yes is the is the deadline to change your party or register as a new voter so Gary when you when you go in to renew

your driver's license and the driver's license office asked about your registration is that flowed well with y'all or is it more prone to issues um did you hear the question about going in to tax collector's office renewing your driver's license i had to do that just two two weeks ago I think i think it was and it was seamless i went in um presented my old driver's license and then on the signature pad they bring up your voter registration information and you have to physically answer the question so you have to select your party um yourself which I think is a really good good change that they've made just recently florida law changed and um

brought that about colleen so if the Supreme Court does order the ballots to go through the post office and is the post office equipped for this or or or are the supervisor supervisor of election capable of giving them the information so that they can use it at this point um did you hear Colleen's question with the post office if if the Supremes do rule in favor of the executive order uh the answer is no and no um the post office from what we're hearing is not equipped i met with our postal manager for the county uh two weeks ago she didn't even know anything about it honestly and um neither she reached out to our

regional manager Joyce out of Broward and we have a call with her on Thursday but you know they're they're not equipped and the majority of supervisors in the state are not equipped because you have to have they have to approve your envelope inner and outer the post office does and you have to have barcodes on the inner inner envelope which is then coming to us in the outbound envelope and the majority of us do not have have those barcodes i have a question with regards to mail in uh ballots does it have to go what if I decide if I decide that I'm not going to mail it in and I'm going to drop it

off at a voting location can I drop it off at any of our voting locations do you have to go the the qu Carol's question is if I decide to vote by mail can I drop my ballot off at any voting location florida law says we have to have your voted ballot by 700 p.m on election day when the polls close we have to have your ballot so on election day you have to drop it at our office it's the only place what your office our our office yes on Martin Luther King gotcha okay during early voting those 11 days from 8 to 5:00 we'll have secure ballot intake stations dropboxes there florida law says

I have to have someone buy those drop boxes at all times or I'm personally subject to a $25,000 civil fine so K's job is to make sure somebody's by that ballot box drop box at all times um you can drop them there and then they come back to us nightly gotcha yep somebody else had a question sherry yes so this is personal question do you eat cucumbers today i I love cucumber the question was do I need cucumbers today yes I love cucumbers um growing up with them yeah I grew up with them and you know it was just part of life at that point and I you know I make I I have no

regrets for the way that I was raised um because I I learned to work and to work hard and when it's a I'm in the office at 6:00 every morning um I'm hands-on and um really hands-on when it comes comes to elections you'll see me out in the lobby how many of you see me out in the lobby during elections i'm watching i'm making sure everything's going the way it should be um yeah i'm thankful thankful that I was taught to work and to work hard can you tell us how you met your husband yeah yeah well Joe's family lived down the street from mom and dad and Joe Joe's a little bit older than

I am so he had already gone through the NA graduated high school gone through the Navy but I Yes through the military but um I knew his sister Brenda and um her son Lee played ball with my younger brother Roger so there was that connection there so we met he started coming to the ball games after he met me yeah i turned around and everyone was like "What are you doing here?" Good question anybody else yes Bruce what's the most controversial election in Martin County you can remember i just have to put it out there for you the most controversial election um well it's it's the local ones no no not sheriff um I would

right now I'm still dealing with a city of Stewart's election for governor um I would say it was probably the 2000 election but I was not supervisor then but I watched the whole whole thing i was just taken by the whole thing and I watched the the the ballots being delivered up to Tallahassee going up 95 or the term going up the turnpike um but Debbie Dent who was chief my chief deputy and retired immediately after the general of 2024 she had to go up to Tallahassee to testify in Martin County because of vote by mail ballots um one of the parties had mailed out um vote by mail request forms and didn't include certain

information and the head of the party wanted to take those request cards and provide that information and was allowed to do so so she had to go to Tallahassee and testify satellite city yeah so well thank you all thank you all for being here tonight for listening to my little story my little journey and um Carrie provided you with with annual reports and we've got vote by mail request forms if anybody needs to request a ballot or or change a party or or address we've got those forms too so thank you all you were very gracious um thank you vicki thank you so much for being with us tonight uh pleasure vicki has got you

know deep roots not just in Martin County or in Florida but also deep roots in Birkax and it has shown through her tenure as uh supervisor election and maybe in days gone by supervisors election did some knitting and crocheting oh yeah they did but uh today that position is not just a full-time working position but it's also a target and unfortunately sometimes we see pot shots made at supervisor elections because you're out there doing the best you can with what you have and the time frames you're given it to do in and I hope everyone appreciates the hard work and dedication it takes to be a supervisor election well thank you G thank you uh

other than that as long as I've got your attention on your way out we've got copies of our newsletter got copies of the Martin digital newsletter got a couple rack cards up there and a copy of uh an old uh Oh uh ballot ballot s an old sample ballot back to 70 i don't know what year is that what year is that ballot Gloria i know i think it's a great from the lever machines the days of the lever uh please you know feel free to visit feel free to browse what we got up there take something if it has an interest to you thank you for being here tonight thank you thank you