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Cobb County elections board debates extensive bylaws rewrite; several duties moved to policy and party-chairs statement tabled to a regular meeting
Summary
The Cobb County Board of Elections spent most of its Feb. 11 meeting reviewing a proposed rewrite of its bylaws and agreed to move several operational items — including public-comment rules and communications — into separate policies while retaining statutory references and annual-training obligations.
The Cobb County Board of Elections spent the bulk of its Feb. 11 meeting debating a proposed rewrite of its bylaws, debating how to balance legal responsibilities set by state or local law against board objectives and operational policies.
Board counsel and members repeatedly urged that the document should track the powers and duties listed in state and local law rather than expand the bylaws to set operational policies. Several board members said items such as public-education efforts, budget advocacy and voter-outreach activities are operational goals better placed in a board policy or in the department’s work plans than in the bylaws.
The board reached several working decisions during the discussion: - Reference statutory authority…
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