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County councilors raise questions about election office staff work and poll-worker training pay
Summary
Council members and public commenters asked for an investigation after a council member said election office employees were assigned to set up a party caucus during work hours and that some poll workers were paid for training the record did not show they attended.
A Lake County council member asked the council to investigate allegations that several election-office employees worked on a political party caucus during regular work hours and that some election inspectors were paid for required training without documentation showing they attended.
The query came during the public-comment section of the Lake County Council meeting and focused on events the speaker said occurred around Feb. 28 and in the weeks before recent local elections.
The council member said five or six workers in the election office “were tasked with setting up a party function, a Democrat caucus, in the auditorium during work hours,” and that the county chairman had been told the party would…
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