Remarks by Erik Weigand
71 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“Yes, I have a bunch of questions to ask of our clerk, but maybe, do we have somebody online that's serving as our vendor to run the election?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 18:39
“Okay, and just so I understand correctly, 44 years is the last time that the City of Newport Beach conducted an election of their own?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
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“Yeah, so polling places have changed over the years. Polling places used to be every precinct, and then recently the state legislature changed it to vote centers. So anyone in Orange County can vote at any vote center. If I live in Newport Beach but happen to work in Fullerton, I can vote for everyone in that vote center. that's kind of where this is leading with all these questions that um and i appreciate hopefully the patience of my council to answer these questions about the process of an election because i would say being in public policy sector for three decades i would say over…”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
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“Do we know what the ballot will look like when it's mailed? Will it look similar to the one that the county uses or will Newport Beach have its own specific look to it?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 24:49
“Okay, and can you identify yourself and what what you what what organization you represent or what company or your Yes, sorry.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
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“And can you tell us how many elections you've run separately from being a city clerk, but in the capacity of this consulting firm you serve on or your your the company that you represent?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 25:41
“And those in your clerk capacity were city-specific or were they working with the registrar voters?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 25:48
“Okay. And then can you tell me the recent ones that you've done, what some specific elections you've worked on?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
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“And they just run separate schedules and say like a primary and general election that the statewide does. It's kind of like how LA used to be where they had their mayoral race during a different time than those elections.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 27:04
“Got it. Got it. Okay. So basically as your capacity as a consultant, you've done several and then you plan on doing several more of this cycle.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 27:15
“Okay, okay, thank you. So, and if you wanna chime in to some of these questions that I'm asking city staff of, feel free to. So polling place locations open, which are now called vote centers, open for the county on the 24th of October for select locations, and all locations open on the 31st of October Will Newport Beach be conducting polling place locations in separate locations, or will they partner with the county on vote centers and hold stations next to those stations?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 28:09
“So a voter can't vote in person in the Newport Beach election?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 28:19
“They can't go to a polling place and vote in person. So it's like Oregon. Oregon is mail only. There's no polling places. They're all mailed. When is the mailing date of our election going to be?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 29:23
“You have the plan created or is that still in the process?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
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“So every voter in Newport Beach will receive their ballot sometime right around October 5th, which this candidate guide highlights. But Newport Beach's ballot for these three initiatives, a separate ballot will be mailed out on October 19th or by October 19th.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 30:28
“Okay, so you will have one ballot a significant amount of time longer than you'll have a second ballot.”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 31:00
“And what day will you be mailing that information out?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 31:13
“And is that standard language that you'll be using, or will you create your own language for this?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 31:22
“But I mean, as far as the language in the document that you'll be sending out, is this going to be kind of templated off other elections that you've run or other elections?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 31:45
“When you say unique, is that never been done or has it been done before?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 32:05
“So you as a consultant or a city clerk have never done this before in this accelerated time frame?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 32:18
“Okay. As far as the military and overseas ballot, the requirement is September 19th as provided in the guidebook. And you're saying you think you can have that done by the 18th?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 32:33
“And then you obtain that data from the registrar voters?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 32:37
“And then there's also a provision that if a military member comes back in that window of time, that allows them to vote in person How do we plan on accommodating that? Because there's a rule in the law that allows for a service member to return back home and then that ballot is eliminated and then they get to use a new ballot that they get handed to on spot. How do we accommodate that request?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026
- Play at 33:24
“So we would need the county of Orange to help facilitate that for us, which we are kind of looking at some documents that they've sent us in the past. That says they would have trouble doing so, but we don't quite know that answer because we haven't asked them yet as to what they can or cannot do. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 11, 2026