Board Meeting

Elections

Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023
9:30 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. EST

Remote

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections conducts and supports elections, making decisions related to the operation of elections in the county. It consists of four voting members: two Democrats and two Republicans. The board certifies issues and candidates that appear on ballots, and it certifies election results. It also makes logistical decisions, such as how many voting booths and precinct scanners to allocate to polling locations.

Find Board of Elections meetings live streamed on YouTube at this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/CuyahogaCountyBOE/videos

A direct streaming link may be available in the meeting agenda, which is available 24 hours before the meeting start time, at the Board of Elections website: http://www.boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/

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Reporting

Edited and summarized by the Cleveland - OH Documenters Team

Note-taking by Mildred Seward

Cleveland schools bill board for custodial fees for polling places

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Live reporting by Giorgiana Lascu

Board discusses alleged voter fraud in Ohio, acknowledges re-appointment of county judge

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu

I'll be covering this morning’s @cuyahogaboe meeting for @signalcleveland @cledocumenters. #CLEDocumenters

08:53 AM Jan 18, 2023 CST

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Follow the meeting here. youtu.be/iqzXaYLo9Es

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After approving the minutes from last meeting the board discusses how House Bill 458 will change the election process. A summary of the bill can be found below. legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/13…

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Board member Inajo Davis Chappell brings up 630 cases of election fraud in the state of Ohio which was discussed at an election officials conference saying, “It is our duty to find out if any of these 630 cases of fraud [occurred] in Cuyahoga county.”

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 5/18

Public buildings, such as schools are not allowed to charge the board of elections rent, but they can charge fees. Cleveland Metropolitan School District did not charge fees in 2020 or 2021, But in 2022 at the board of elections received a bill for all three years.

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The Metro School District fees will be coming out of the 2023 budget, but a stipulation is expected to be added to their contract with the school district in order to ensure timely bills.

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Resignation and appointments were approved notably Danny Kelly Cleveland City Council to represent Ward 11 replaced Brian Mooney who resigned to serve on the Court of common pleas.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 8/18

Also appointed today was was Republican Judge Joan Synenberg who narrowly lost her appointment to Mooney and was then appointed to a vacant seat on that same court by Governor @MikeDeWine.

clevescene.com/news/judge-joa…

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Next is the acknowledgement of field performance report from the Nov 8, 2022 Election. According to the report benchmark goals were met over all, but some numbers were not ideal.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 10/18

One place where the numbers were "not where we want to be" was in signing the reports for security purposes at the closing of the election.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 11/18

According to the representative presenting the field report there will be some changes in how the @cuyahogaboe will be training poll workers when it comes to provisional ballots and to reflect changes made by HB 458.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 12/18

According to the report 136 polling locations had one or more provisional ballots that could not be counted due to election official error. A majority of these errors are due to missing information that election officials do not identify before the voter leaves.

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Standard resources were allocated for the May 2, 2023 election.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 14/18

@cuyahogaboe is continuing negotiations with Clear Ballot for new election equipment. The contract will not be done in time for new equipment to be available for the May 2, 2023 election.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 15/18

Moving on to security -- the secretary of state has granted @cuyahogaboe an extension in 4 areas of their security overhaul: additional cameras in both board of elections buildings, a software back up device, a new security system in Halle warehouse.

Giorgiana Lascu @glascu 16/18

The board will be sending out reminders to voters who have had a change of address with the post office, but not registered at a new address and to voters who haven't had any voter activity in 2 years.

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Public comment -- Rev. Pamela Pinkney, who frequents city council and board meeting in protest, spoke about mass incarceration, racism, who security cameras benefit and House Bill 458.

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Agency Information

Cuyahoga County Board of Elections

boe.cuyahogacounty.us

(216) 443-8683

electioninfo@cuyahogacounty.gov

@http://twitter.com/cuyahogaboe

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The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections exists to serve the citizens of Cuyahoga County by faithfully conducting the election process through which they choose their representatives.

During COVID, Cuyahoga County Board of Elections meetings are live streamed via this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CuyahogaCountyBOE/

A direct streaming link may be available in the meeting agenda. Board of Elections meeting agendas are available 24 hours before the meeting start time, at the Board of Elections website: http://www.boe.cuyahogacounty.gov/