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County clerk urges creation of election administrator as entities and workload grow
Summary
Cooke County’s county clerk urged the commissioners court to fund an election administrator to centralize election operations, citing new state rules, rising workload and fragmented local practices by independent entities.
County Clerk Pam (County Clerk) asked Cooke County commissioners during budget hearings to create and fund an election administrator (EA) position to centralize election administration and relieve her office of recurring, time-consuming election duties. She told the court that the county now handles multiple, fragmented entity elections and that an EA would provide continuity, centralize voter history and simplify compliance with recent state requirements.
Pam said an EA would reduce confusion voters experienced when municipal entities used separate polling locations and schedules. She described situations in which…
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