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Elections official urges Mahoning County commissioners to secure new Board of Elections facility
Summary
David Beatrice, chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections, told commissioners on Oct. 2 that ongoing building problems and a recent leak risked election equipment and urged immediate action to find a new facility; county staff said work remains underway but gave no timetable for a move.
David Beatrice, chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections, told the Mahoning County Board of Commissioners on Oct. 2 that the elections office needs a new facility immediately to avoid a “catastrophic failure” that could damage voting equipment.
Beatrice said the current location has repeated water and air-conditioning problems and produced conditions he described as unsafe for staff and risky for machines. “You must, with all due haste, get us a new building before something else happens,” he said.
Beatrice told commissioners he had raised the issue at the same podium almost a year earlier and criticized the pace of…
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