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Good morning.

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I've lived in Denton County since 1998 and
Texas

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my entire life.

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I've been working elections here as a clerk,
an alternate,

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and a judge since 2004, more than two decades.

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And one thing I can tell you, every general

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election, when we have something big on the
ballot, especially

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in a midterm or presidential year, come the
end of

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the day, you have a line.

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And there's going to be a bunch of people in

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that line that because we do precinct voting
are in

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the wrong location, and they will tell you,
but this

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is where I voted last time.

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But it changes because we do this precincts
voting.

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And what we do is then we disenfrench them by

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making them vote provisionally, which then
slows down the closing

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of the polls because those provisional votes
take a long

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time.

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So we just need to do what most of the

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major counties in the state have done already,
which is

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go to voting centers on election day as well.

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So we don't disenfranchise a bunch of people
and we

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can close our polls much more quickly.

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That's all I have to say on the matter.

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Thank you, Mayor.