 where important conversations can happen. Libraries are also places where people can register to vote, and that's one reason we gathered here today to honor National Voter Registration Day. In fact, as you may or may not know, by Texas Statute, libraries are required to provide the opportunity to register to vote in Texas. Also, several San Antonio Public Library locations this year, 17 libraries are early voting locations, and some of them are among the busiest early voting locations, and 16 library locations will serve as polling locations on the 6th of November. Our goal today is to join together in support of registering, mobilizing and educating eligible voters so that everyone in our community has a voice that represents their own unique point of view, whatever that may be. As you may know, there's an important general election coming up on November the 6th, and the deadline to register for that election is October 9th. Of course, that doesn't mean if you forget to register before October 9th that you deny, go ahead and register. In Texas, there's always another election coming. Sooner than you will think. If you are not already registered to vote or need to update your information, you can take a voter registration card with you today. You can also help by spreading the word about voters voting at the library, and also registering to vote at the library, and these are cards that you can fill out and just drop in the mail. Nobody has to be a registrar, so you can take several past amounts of where you'd like to, and that person just takes it from there. I just want to say, didn't know what I should leave. This year, excuse me, it's October the 9th, because if the deadline always ever falls on a Saturday or Sunday, it moves to the next. That would be October 8th, or maybe just a scheduled extra time. So that's why it is so worthwhile to put you all together. Get the word out, get to go to registrars, and put your bang-ups off right now. The majority of the cards that have come in this are being blocked in by the next people to registrars, or at least that to the general public, which is wonderful. Every two years, full vote flows, when everybody gets really into the registration numbers skyrocket. We look back to 2016, we had that election, here in Barrick County, 936,000 registered voters, for this kind of job, 932 to one bill, it feels like a blink of an eye. It's just growing and growing and growing, which is absolutely fantastic. And for this election year, just to get on this path a little bit, I did bring some ballot by mail applications and any of the intelligence, know of anyone, they're eligible to vote by mail, so they don't have to go to one of our 7116 library operations that we set up around town. We will set the ballot to them, and think of the vote that is what should be of their own privacy, put it back in the mail and send it to them. So as I just began leaving today, push that button. Gee, how many occupations do we have in the mail, right now? 32,000. So there's interest there to go to register people other than others. Schools? Schools is every principle of a high school. Here's the voter registrar. I know there's been a lot of them, because that really hadn't been fulfilled, but we brought the attention to it and here it comes. And so we're looking forward to seeing a lot of those people. We just, like I said, every day when the mail comes, right now, we refer to it as pockets. So we're spreading the word. The things that we have on scale for this wonderful day, spreading the word. But that's only half of the job. You know, what's the younger half? Turn it. We get it coming vote about where to vote. Good point. Good point. We strive to always have spring elections. Do you realize seven elections we vote failed? That's just more proof for you, Texas vote. And now we're getting ready for big ones. But what we have, we have a lot of votes. So sometimes the inside of the area, you've got to get that full second. And so that's what I'm hearing. I'm not doing that on purpose. But we must obey the law, which there's not a problem. If it pushes you off the streets, it's just, it's wonderful. It really is. But I thank you all for being here today. It's, today is the day. Spread the word today. And please, watch registration cards for you. But now, I'm going to have the patience for you to put the articles in the button. But they're forcing it. There's a national rule to registration today. That's for your remarks. And thank you also for your continued commitment to voting in Bear County. I really do, I really do appreciate it. So we mentioned registering to vote. We mentioned voting. And there's another thing you can do at the library that comes in between, which is educating yourself and learning about candidates and issues and figuring out where to vote and what's important to vote about and what's coming up in the next election. And the library, of course, is a really important role in that learning about candidates and issues. And any of our staff at any of our locations will be happy to help anyone learn about those candidates and issues. We also have a lot of books. Some have a very strong opinion one way or another. Some try to be neutral. Some are somewhere in between there. But we have books and other and magazines as well. And I really wanted to give a tiny plug right now for our electronic magazines through our e-book vendor. You can easily read an electronic magazine. You don't have to return it. There's never any fine. It's just there. And again, our staff will be happy to tell you about how you can do that. And then we're almost finished with these remarks, but I will note that there are some activities, some fun things to do. And also we have some sponsored food and beverage after the event. So we're glad you're here. Thanks so much. Go out and spread the word. And of course you can take the material with you when you go. Thank you.