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Cochise County supervisors review elections office budget, staffing and mail‑ballot procedures
Summary
At a board work session, elections staff asked supervisors to keep the office budget largely flat while covering wage increases, outlined recruiting for an elections director, and discussed costs and legal constraints tied to all‑mail voting, intergovernmental agreements and precinct sizes.
Cochise County Board of Supervisors members discussed the county elections office budget, staffing and special‑election procedures at a work session where staff asked the board to hold the budget essentially flat while covering recent wage increases and other election costs.
Elections staff said the department posted the elections director position and is holding finalist interviews this week; staff will return to the board with a recommendation. “We went out for, we posted the position. We had conducted interviews, and we are conducting a finalist interview later this week…and then I'll bring back to the board for further recommendation,” an elections staff member said. The transcript records the posted salary as “a hundred and 10” (figure not specified in the record).
Staff asked supervisors to keep the elections budget “flat from last year to this year with the exception of those wage increases,” saying available funds would cover three…
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