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A
Casey
carl,
I
have
the
privilege
of
serving
as
the
city
clerk
for
the
city
of
minneapolis
and
tonight
I'm
here
to
provide
a
final
report
on
our
46-day
early
absentee
voting
period
for
this
year's
2021
municipal
election.
Today,
at
five
o'clock
we
closed
that
46-day
early
voting
period
on
this
year's
municipal
election
and
so
far
we
have
accepted
28
3
831
early
ballots.
A
That
includes
ballots
that
were
cast
early
in
person
here
at
our
early
vote
center
by
mail
through
ballot
drop-off
from
agent
delivery
from
our
overseas
and
our
military
voters
and
from
voters
who've
been
served
over
the
past
few
weeks
from
hospitals
and
nursing
homes.
Overall,
the
theme
for
this
year's
early
voting
period
as
compared
to
the
last
municipal
election
in
2017
is
double.
A
We
have
accepted
about
double
the
total
number
of
early
ballots
this
year
as
compared
to
four
years
ago
and
2017,
and
we
served
almost
double
the
number
of
in-person
early
voters
this
year
on
our
final
day
of
the
early
voting
period
of
that
46-day
period,
as
we
did
four
years
ago,
four
years
ago
we
served
a
total
of
871
voters.
On
the
last
day
of
the
early
voting
period.
A
Today
we
served
a
total
of
1
610
voters
on
the
final
day
of
this
year's
early
voting
period
with
28
831
early
ballots
in
hand
already
that's
140
percent
higher
in
terms
of
participation
levels
from
our
voters
than
it
was
four
years
ago.
In
2017.
this
year,
as
I've
said,
we
have
28
831
ballots.
Four
years
ago
in
2017
we
had
16
856
ballots.
A
The
total
reflects
a
total
of
11
percent
of
our
total
registered
voter
turnout.
So
with
that,
that
means
we
have
approximately
90
of
our
registered
voter
base
that
still
could
turn
out
tomorrow
at
our
polls
polls
open
at
144
precincts
tomorrow
morning
at
7
a.m,
and
that
means,
if
all
90
percent
of
our
registered
voters
turned
out.
We
could
see
228
000,
plus
voters
showing
up
on
election
day
to
cast
ballots
in
what
is
certainly
shaping
up
to
be
a
historic
municipal
election
for
the
city
of
minneapolis.
A
So
that
is
my
summary
of
today's
early
vote
period.
I
do
have
additional
comments
to
offer
in
terms
of
election
day
activities
post-election
day
activities
in
terms
of
canvassing
results,
reporting
and
when
voters
can
expect
to
see
data
I'll
stop
now
to
see
if
there
are
questions
and
then
proceed
to
the
rest
of
my
prepared
comments.
A
2017
we
had
a
total
of
and
fifty
so
there's
a
difference
about
140
percent,
obviously
much
higher
this
year,
four
years
later
than
it
was
four
years
ago
in
2017.
A
I
think
it's
a
combination
of
the
increasing
efforts
by
the
city
and
the
state
to
make
voting
more
accessible,
more
easy
for
voters
in
all
regards
2014.
We
started
with
no
excuse
absentee
voting
last
year.
Kovad
tested
us
in
terms
of
creativity,
so
we
had
an
increase
in
mail
balloting.
We've
seen
that
stay,
steady,
we've
increased
our
voter
drop
off
opportunity,
so
people
can
request
a
mail
ballot
and
then
bring
it
back
in
person,
but
drop
it
off
instead
of
going
through
the
line.
A
So
the
return
of
in-person
early
voting
has
been
a
positive
sign
and
I
think
it's
an
indication
that
we'll
expect
to
see
a
busy
day
at
the
polls
tomorrow,
but
the
early
vote
continues
to
be
very
popular
and
grow
year
after
year
after
year
and
in
the
aftermath
of
last
year,
plus
the
combination
of
competitive
votes
up
and
down
the
ballot
in
all
our
races
and
three
pretty
important
ballot
questions
that
our
voters
will
decide.
I
think,
has
driven
our
competition
this
year.
A
Try
not
to
make
predictions,
because
if
you
get
it
wrong,
you
have
to
learn
how
to
eat
glass
and
I'm
not
into
eating
glass.
If
I
make
predictions
so
what
I
would
say
is
that
minneapolis
is
a
very
engaged.
Community
has
always
had
high
voter
participation,
even
in
an
off-year
municipal
only
election
nationally,
if
you
have
an
off-year
city
election
like
we're
doing
this
year,
you're
lucky
to
get
about
a
20
turnout.
Four
years
ago
we
had
44
turnout.
A
A
From
what
I've
observed
of
myself
the
things
here
in
terms
of
ranked
choice,
voting
for
in-person
voters
seems
to
be
going
pretty.
Well,
we've
had
a
few
people
who
have
had
a
few
mis-ups
or
have
said
whoops.
I
didn't
mean
to
vote
that
way
or
I
need
a
new
ballot,
so
that's
allowed
in
any
election,
and
you
experience
that
with
ranked
choice,
voting
and
with
traditional
voting.
So
we've
had
some
of
that
reported
here
in
the
in-person
voting
center
and
would
expect
to
have
it
tomorrow,
but
nothing
more
than
usual.
A
Nice
transition
into
the
next
piece,
which
is
what
happens
after
the
election.
So
of
course
all
polls
open
tomorrow
at
7
a.m.
All
of
our
polls
and
134
precincts
will
be
open
until
8
pm
and
until
the
last
voter
in
line
at
that
time,
is
able
to
cast
their
ballots.
So
sometime
between
8
and
8
30,
we
would
expect
that
the
ballots
will
be
clear.
The
precincts
would
be
closed
and
results
will
be
transmitted
to
hennepin.
A
County
hennepin
county
receives
the
results
from
all
of
our
precincts
and
they
merge
that
data
from
election
day
with
the
early
vote
data
that
we
send
them,
and
that
then,
is
uploaded
to
the
secretary
of
state's
website.
I
would
expect
that
results
from
all
of
those
precincts
will
start
being
loaded
to
the
secretary
of
state's
website
for
public
access
sometime
as
soon
as
8
30
and
would
probably
be
done
as
late
as
9,
30
or
10..
So
we
should
have
all
results
in.
My
expectation
is
sometime
around
10
o'clock.
A
Unless
there
are
some
technical
challenges
that
we
experience
on
election
day,
we're
going
to
cross
our
fingers
and
say
results
in
by
no
later
than
10
o'clock
tomorrow
night
in
terms
of
results
reporting,
I
think
it's
really
important
to
share
with
voters
that
there
are
two
sites
that
they're
going
to
want
to
monitor
tomorrow
night.
The
first
one
is
the
secretary
of
state's
website.
As
always
on
election
night
results
will
be
uploaded
to
the
secretary
of
state's
website
for
our
three
ballot
questions,
because
those
are
simple:
yes,
no
answers.
A
We
will
know
the
answers
to
all
three
ballot
questions
tomorrow
night.
We
won't
necessarily
know
all
of
the
answers
to
the
25
races
for
the
offices
on
the
ballot,
because
some
of
the
races
may
require
some
tabulation
through
ranked
choice
voting.
So
after
we
upload
all
of
the
data
to
the
secretary
of
state's
website.
The
team
here
at
the
city's
elections
and
voter
services
will
take
all
of
the
raw
data
showing
the
three
rankings
for
every
candidate
in
all
25
races
on
the
ballot.
A
We
will
eliminate
any
undervotes
any
overvotes,
any
undeclared
write-in
candidates
and
do
some
other
cleanup
of
the
data
once
we
do
that,
we
will
do
an
analysis
of
only
the
first
choice
rankings
for
each
candidate
in
every
race
and
based
on
a
maximum
possible
threshold,
which
is
a
falsely
inflated
threshold
to
declare
a
winner
only
used
on
election
night.
If
it's
possible
to
declare
an
unofficial
winner,
we
will
do
that.
We
will
announce
those
winners
and
post
them
to
our
website,
which
is
vote.minneapolismn.gov.
A
We
anticipate
beginning
that
process
around
9
00
a.m
on
wednesday,
and
we
anticipate
completing
ranked
choice,
voting
tabulations
in
any
races
that
require
that
additional
tabulation
of
the
ballot
by
the
end
of
wednesday.
So
we
will
have
results
for
all
25
seats
by
the
end
of
wednesday,
we
will
have
the
answer
on
the
three
ballot
questions
by
the
end
of
tuesday
night
election
night
tomorrow.
A
We
will
first
post
through
our
social
media,
a
notice
that
we
have
declared
an
unofficial
winner
and
that
we
will
post
it
to
the
website
that
should
give
everyone
approximately
a
five-minute
warning
to
get
to
the
elections
website
at
vote.minneapolismn.gov,
and
then
the
upload
will
be
made
and
the
announcement
will
be
posted
for
public
access
to
the
website
of
which
candidates
are
declared
the
unofficial
winners
in
any
of
those
races.
We
go
in
ballot
order,
so
we'll
start
with
the
mayor.
Then
we
go
through
all
13
city
council.
A
Then
we
go
to
the
board
of
estimate
and
taxation,
and
then
we
go
to
the
park
board.
So
that's
the
order
we'll
be
processing
those
races
on
november
3rd
for
any
that
require
rcv,
tabulation.
A
It's
been
inspiring
to
see.
Voters
I
mentioned
earlier
600.
Voters
alone
come
through
this
space
today
in
person
that
didn't
include
the
number
of
people
whose
mail
ballots
were
returned,
who
came
through
in
their
cars
and
dropped
off
their
ballots,
the
people
who
came
in
their
cars
and
voted
curbside
and
needed
assistance
from
our
election
judges,
so
the
election
judges.
Of
course
you
know
it's
a
great
service
for
them
to
be
here.
A
Helped
us
mostly,
obviously,
because
last
year
was
primarily
a
male
election
because
of
concerns
around
covid
and
traditionally
at
least
in
minneapolis.
The
bulk
of
our
vote
comes
in
on
election
day
at
the
polls
in
person,
and
so
the
stress
on
the
system
last
year
to
really
test.
Are
you
ready
for
the
bulk
to
shift
to
mail
caused
us
to
rethink
and
make
process
improvements
to
our
mail
operation
and
we've
seen
improvements
continue
this
year
because
our
timeliness
factor
to
process
the
mail
ballots
each
night
has
increased.