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Clerk outlines reduced elections budget, details ballot, postage and staffing costs
Summary
Bonner County election officials presented a pared-down elections budget that reduces some line items for a non-presidential year, detailed printing and postage needs for ballots and absentee mailings, and discussed poll-worker staffing, contract maintenance and accrued comp‑time.
County elections staff presented line-by-line detail for the elections budget and explained several reductions tied to this being a non‑presidential year.
Elections staff said the office consolidated previous bulk election budgets into more specific line items and cut overall election-supply totals because 2026 will not be a presidential year. Staff noted the office reduced a prior bulk supply line (about $48,000 in older budgets) and redistributed amounts into per‑election categories; one election-supply line was reduced by roughly $10,000 for the coming year.
Staff described the mechanics and costs: a partisan primary can generate up to five…
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