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Cherokee County election office readies for November voting, seeks poll workers and weighs sample-ballot mailing
Summary
At the October meeting, the Cherokee County Election Board heard the director report on logic and accuracy testing, early-voting dates, absentee ballots (about 160 returned so far), poll-worker recruiting and training, risk‑limiting and ballot-image audits, and a staff proposal to mail sample ballots to registered voters for major elections.
Anne, the Cherokee County election director, told the board during its October meeting that staff began logic-and-accuracy testing the day of the meeting and reminded residents that the voter-registration deadline was that day.
The director said the office is starting in-person poll-manager training this week with sessions at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and one evening session at 6 p.m. for Wednesday. “We are going to start recruiting and trying to work on getting some new ones,” she said, describing concerns that some experienced poll workers are retiring and that recruitment will be a challenge going into 2026.
The director gave a schedule of election deadlines and activities: the last day to accept absentee-ballot applications is October 24; early voting begins the office’s first…
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