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Supervisor of Elections urges commissioners to fund mail‑ballot outreach and warns of budget timing tradeoffs
Summary
Supervisor of Elections Julie Watson told commissioners the office is proposing to postpone its main mail‑ballot renewal mailing into FY27 to keep the FY26 budget flat, a move that would save roughly $140,000–$150,000 but shorten voters’ lead time to receive and return ballots in some elections.
Supervisor of Elections Julie Watson told the Board of County Commissioners that her office is holding proposed personnel steady but is proposing timing changes to mail‑ballot mailings to keep the FY26 budget flat.
Watson said election administration is largely mandated by state law and that “you cannot put a price on integrity,” drawing on decades of experience running large, complex elections. She described the county’s strategy that favors mail ballots as a cost and service efficiency: the county mailed ballots to roughly 280,000 requests in the 2024…
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