Apologies, I meant to show up last week, but life
uh kind of got in the way.
Uh good morning, fellow county commissioners.
I've left my entire speech at home, so I'm gonna
try to do this ad hoc off my head.
Uh just like our good friend here who just spoke
here to advocate for countywide voting on election day.
You know, we have uh countywide voting during the early
voting period, but not on the last day to vote.
It's very confusing to a lot of people.
We're seeing a lot of people getting redirected.
I understand that there have been some people who have
advocated for the other way around.
I know that the uh Madam Chair of the Denton
County Republican Party was trying to somehow say that if
we that not having countywide voting on election day is
an opportunity for precinct chairs to somehow get more involved
with uh our elections.
But I'll tell you this as a former precinct chair
myself, uh you cannot loiter in front of a vote
a voting location.
Trust me, I tried to do poll greeting the first
time I tried it uh doing it.
I forgot that you're not allowed to stand within 100
feet of the door.
And uh you'll get reminded real quick if you uh
not know that.
Um I understand that some will say that accessibility
will somehow lead to uh insecurity in our voting systems.
But if someone wants to make that claim, I would
challenge them as to saying why accessibility somehow leads to
insecurity.
We should be able to have both security and accessibility
at the same time.
In fact, it's the job of this court to maintain
the security of our elections.
Uh this is a huge problem, particularly in Frisco, Texas,
because in Frisco, you know, we have part of our
city in Denton County, the other part of Frisco in
Collin County.
And there's a lot of Frisco residents that accidentally jump
over the county line.
And when they when a Denton resident goes to Collin
County, they get redirected back into our county, but not
all the election workers in Collin County necessarily know the
correct location for the polling location for each individual in
Denton County.
And so we're seeing some sometimes people get redirected multiple
times when a when a Denton resident accidentally goes to
Collin County.
g Itets redi rerecditedrected back to Denton County, but it
shows it to the wrong voting location, they get again.
It's very frustrating
And I'll be honest with you guys, I don't want
to sound cynical, but it feels like voter suppression.
It's a huge problem, particularly in Frisco.
Now I'm going to switch gears a little bit to
a completely separate topic.
I do want to give a good thank you to
uh one of our members here when it comes to
Frisco.
Frisco has been having some really dark days, particularly in
our our city council.
And I want to give a special thanks to uh
someone who showed up and gave some words of common
sense um to uh the Frisco City Council.
Things have gotten so bad at the Frisco City Council
that they have actually terminated their citizens' input uh for
the foreseeable future um because of horrible rhetoric that's been
stated during the uh the citizen citizens input uh during
that time.
But I want to thank you for your your words
of common sense, uh Commissioner.
Um and I want to thank you all for your
time and the hard work that you do.
Thank you.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you, Mr.
Frey.
Thank you for being here for expressing your comments.
We appreciate that.