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Elections, Meeting of the Commissioners Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 1 MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS * * * * * TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020 * * * * * COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: LISA DEELEY, CHAIRWOMAN AL SCHMIDT, COMMISSIONER OMAR SABIR, COMMISSIONER HELD AT: The Convention Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania REPORTED BY: Samantha Clearfield STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES COURT REPORTERS - VIDEOGRAPHERS 54 FRIENDS LANE, SUITE 116 NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18940 WWW.STREHLOWCOURTREPORTING.COM (215) 504-4622 FAX (215) 504-7155 STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 2 1 * * * * * 2 P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S 3 * * * * * 4 5 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Good evening. I 6 call to order the Return Board meeting of 7 Monday, November 17, 2020. 8 The Return Board of the November 3, 9 2020, general and special election having been 10 reconvened on this day of November 17, 2020, 11 shall continue with the business of the canvas 12 and computation. 13 We will now move to public comment. 14 Commenters shall state where they or if they 15 are not a resident of Philadelphia that they 16 are a Philadelphia tax payer. Public comment 17 is not an opportunity for dialogue or Q and A. 18 It is public comment. A chance for you 19 to tell us what you think. Each speaker shall 20 have two minutes. However I may extend this 21 time at my discretion. All public comments 22 must be relevant or germane toward business. 23 Finally it is my responsibility to preserve 24 the order and decorum of the meetings. As STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 3 1 such profane, slanderous, discriminatory or 2 personal attacks will not be tolerated. 3 Anyone wishing to offer public comment please 4 step forward. 5 MS. GYM: Good evening, Commissioners. 6 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Good evening. 7 Please state your name for the record. 8 MS. GYM: My name's Helen Gym, City 9 Council Member and resident of Philadelphia. 10 I came here tonight to express my gratitude on 11 behalf of myself and, if I could be so bold, 12 on, I think, the City of Philadelphia. 13 Over the last few weeks when we saw us 14 take this journey for the sake of democracy, 15 we've been able to showcase the best of 16 Philadelphia. And I think we have much of the 17 best of Philadelphia. 18 The hundreds of Philadelphians who 19 turned out to make sure that they worked in 20 the Convention Center shift after shift. I 21 think folks like Mr. Bluestein and all of you 22 up here who faced some pretty deeply 23 concerning situations, threats even to your 24 personhood, but did so with enormous amounts STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 4 1 of grace and dignity and with the firm belief 2 that democracy would stand. 3 That the peoples' voices would be 4 heard. It's hard to underscore as we come 5 kind of to the conclusion of this how much it 6 means to have seen our local government shine 7 in the way that it did on not only the 8 city-wide stage but on the national stage and 9 to that I just really wanted to acknowledge 10 the tremendous work that the Commissioners 11 have done and especially to all the 12 Philadelphians who came out and made sure that 13 democracy would matter here in the City of 14 Liberty. So thank you very much. 15 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Thank you, Council 16 woman. Anyone else here for public comment? 17 MS. YOUNG: Good evening. 18 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Good evening. 19 Please state your name for the record. 20 MS. YOUNG: It's Regina Young. I am a 21 resident of Philadelphia. I am also the state 22 rep-elect for District 185 and I wanted to 23 come here tonight along with my daughter, 24 school-aged daughter who also witnessed STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 5 1 history being made and I wanted to come in 2 person and say thank you for your hard work, 3 your dedication and more importantly allowing 4 the nation to witness how impeccable we can be 5 as a community and as a city and more 6 importantly as a parent. 7 I'm an elected official but I'm a 8 parent first and being able to allow my 9 children to first-hand witness what community 10 looks like, what power looks like, what 11 empowerment looks like and what teamwork looks 12 like. So thank you all. I appreciate you. 13 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Thank you. Anyone 14 else here for public comment? 15 MS. GAVARSKI: Good evening. My name 16 is Susan Gavarski (ph) I'm a resident of 17 Philadelphia. I wanted to thank, also echo my 18 fellow citizens and community members for hard 19 work Commissioner Sabir, Commissioner Deeley, 20 Commissioner Schmidt and your staff Deputy 21 Commissioner Custodio, Deputy Commissioner 22 Bluestein. 23 You guys really, it was amazing you 24 know there are so many things that could have STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 6 1 gone wrong and things didn't. We were able to 2 count every vote, there was bipartisanship, 3 there was a commitment to Philadelphia voters 4 who kept polling locations open, we had poll 5 workers, people were trained and ready. The 6 whole world was watching and you did fabulous, 7 so thank you. 8 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Thank you. Anyone 9 else for public comment? Thank you. We will 10 now take a brief recess and we will return 11 shortly. 12 * * * * * 13 (Whereupon, a brief recess was taken.) 14 * * * * * 15 16 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: We will now 17 reconvene the meeting of the Return Board 18 Monday, November 17, 2020. We will now have 19 the reading of the results from the canvas and 20 computation from our Supervisor of Elections 21 Mr. Garrett Dietz. 22 MR. DIETZ: Good evening, 23 Commissioners. 24 CHAIRWOMAN DEELEY: Good evening, STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 7 1 Garrett. 2 MR. DIETZ: I will now read out the 3 various categories of results from the canvas 4 and computation of the 2020 general election 5 for November 3, 2020. 6 7 8 So our first category are ballots that 9 were received by election day 8:00 p.m. And 10 do not have any -- do not currently or are 11 currently not contested. 12 For President and Vice President of the 13 United States: 14 Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris, 15 596,624. 16 Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence, 17 131,755. 18 Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy Spike Cohen, 19 4,806. 20 Write-In, 2,043. 21 For the Office of Attorney General: 22 Josh Shapiro, 564,993. 23 Heather Heidelbaugh, 116,206. 24 Daniel Wassmer, 8,727. STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 8 1 Richard L. Weiss, 10,629. 2 Write-In, 425. 3 For the Office of Auditor General: 4 Nina Ahmad, 548,516. 5 Timothy Defoor, 122,009. 6 Jennifer Moore, 13,161. 7 Oliva Faison 9,881. 8 I apologize, Write-In 314. 9 State Treasurer -- for the Office of 10 State Treasurer: 11 Joe Torsella, 554,466. 12 Stacy L. Garrity, 121,764. 13 Joe Soloski, 10,278. 14 Timothy Runkle, 10,499. 15 Write-In, 334. 16 For the Office of Representative in 17 Congress 18 2nd District: 19 Brendan F. Boyle, 195,407. 20 David Torres, 74,490. 21 Write-In, 228. 22 The 3rd District: 23 Dwight Evans, 338,203. 24 Michael Harvey, 33,509. STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 9 1 Write-In, 516. 2 For the 5th District: 3 Mary Gay Scanlon, 36,669. 4 Dasha Pruett, 12,559. 5 Write-In, 37. 6 For the Office of Senator in the 7 General Assembly 8 1st District: 9 Nikil Saval, 123,585. 10 Write-In, 1,392. 11 For the 3rd District: 12 Sharif Street, 89,068. 13 Write-In, 459. 14 For the 5th District: 15 John Sabatina, 68,580. 16 Write-In, 761. 17 For the 7th District: 18 Vincent Hughes, 86,092. 19 Write-In, 430. 20 For the Office of Representative in the 21 General Assembly 22 152nd District: 23 Nancy Guenst, 1,268. 24 Karen Houck, 1,678. STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 10 1 John Weinrich, 53. 2 Write-In, 1. 3 170th District: 4 Mike Doyle, 11,466. 5 Martina White, 17,560. 6 Write-In, 17. 7 For the 172nd District: 8 Kevin J. Boyle, 15,300. 9 Aaron Bashir, 9,713. 10 Write-In, 29. 11 For the Representative in the General 12 Assembly 13 173rd District: 14 Mike Driscoll, 17,380. 15 Write-In 154. 16 174th District: 17 Ed Neilson 18,081. 18 Write-In, 205. 19 175th District: 20 Marylouise Isaacson, 29,991. 21 Write-In, 290. 22 For the 177th District: 23 Joe Hohenstein, 15,438. 24 John Nungesser, 10,409. STREHLOW & ASSOCIATES, INC. (215) 504-4622 Meeting of the Commissioners Elections November 17, 2020 Page 11 1 Write-In, 20.
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