Hall County Government Elections Board Meeting – May 21, 2024

• Declaration of Quorum Present – yes
  o Present:
  o Jack Noa, Chairman
  o Mr. Johnny Varner, member
  o Gail Sheats, member
  o Mr. Ken Cochran, member
  o One member missing- Mr. David Kennedy
• Call to Order and roll call
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Adoption of Agenda- yes with one addition
• Approval of Minutes from April 9, 2024- motion and 2nd
• Public Comments specific to Items on the agenda: none
• Director’s Update
  o Turn out “steady but slow”
  o GARViS system has been up and down, in and out all day today- struggle to process
  o Hall Co. intermittent internet interruptions today with outages – gotten better- was
  and is an issue
  o Back-up procedure to use MVP has also been down- statewide
  o Consequences will be here later tonight- 10pm deadline to report to state- may be
  extended but hasn’t been determined at this time
  o Blake Evans, Elections Director Sec. State Office was notified – still is going off and
  on; they are working on it.
  o We’re doing the best we can
  o Risk limiting audit on May 30-31
  o Friday certification meeting
  o Run off will make it difficult to do audit
  o Numbers- Active voters 136,247; inactive 12,430 and total 148, 677 eligible voters
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  o Mailed out 1475 absentee ballots– 940 accepted back by mail,
  o 10, 362 absentee voters in person
  o As of 5:30pm 11,000 voters today
• Business
  o Van Stephens (Special Assistant County Attorney) spoke: Board of Commissioners
  considering a T Splost referendum- July 11th
• request to have one meeting on July 16.

Required to run an advertisement- official validation. Requesting to move July BOE
meeting to July 16. Motion and 2nd and vote.

• Public Comments specific to items not on the agenda- none
• Comments from the Board and Chairman
• Confirmation of next meeting – May 24, 2024
• Executive session if needed – will meet downstairs
• Adjourn

*These meeting notes were prepared by a volunteer

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