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Teri Lehrke the city of La Crosse city clerk. What is the city clerk do well that does a lot of different things to a lot of licenses. We maintain the records that the common Council records management for the leases contract legislation the account so that a large portion of the duties of the city clerk tell him to be the election administrator for the city. So what does that mean as election administrator for the equally fabulous and equipped the polling places to hire and train the election worker we acquire and maintain the voting machine. Prepare ballot placement certification and and how many quantities ballots were going to need in order to get the right number of pallets printed for each election. We also issue at thinking ballots administer campaign-finance registration and voter registration and with it being an election season and even here is the volume of voter registration and balance it increased quite significantly. Let's talk about voter registration five twins and they just turned 18. I took my son to vote for the first time it took a long time to get registered. There's gotta be a simpler way. There is a simpler way and that's on election day. People in Wisconsin are allowed to register on election day prior to voting. However, there is a new opportunity that's been out for probably two years. It's basically online voter registration. The website that people would be using would be my vote.WI.gov voter registration database is for the whole state of Wisconsin and so the Wisconsin election commission created this online portal with you. Well, to allow for a lot of different things a lawyer can look up the polling place they can check their status to see if they register they can see what's on their ballot, but one thing that is really nice is that they can register totally online. If their drivers license in Wisconsin next is where they live currently is a seamless online voter registration where it's basically a matching system. The databases look at each other and match their address, people can get themselves registered ahead of time if you do at the time it will avoid standing in two lines on election day. At least you will already be registered and then you would have to stand in line for voting purposes. Course there are deadlines are still seated with me online voter registration, the online registration is only available during open registration. What that means is every day of the year. You can register online. If your address also matches the DMV except it closes 20 days before the election and on election day Terry, how does somebody go about registering in person on election day. What do we need to bring. I would encourage people to go to the my vote website. My vote that WI.gov and look up the address of the polling place and so what they know that. And then there at least 10 days. That's a lot of our time. That they have to establish residency for voting, then what they do is they have to bring an acceptable form of proof of residence with them. The most common form is the Wisconsin driver license or ID. If your driver's license or ID has not been changed through the DMV and other acceptable proof of residency document would be a utility like charter bill or sensory or XL energy there a utility bill, bank statement or credit card different things that you can use for proof of residency and all those different things are spelled out on the on the my vote website. You were always here to help people to navigate the system. The municipal clerk Joe is a good resource for voting information we do have a lot of information on the website. We are located in City Hall 400 La Crosse St. on the second floor is anything missing. Just take a look at the my voice I save yourself some time on election day get prepared to get registered and then go