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Commissioners sign off on November ballot order, polling places and vendor payments for consolidated election
Summary
The Board approved the November ballot order and designated polling places, and authorized prepayments to election vendors for printing, electronic pollbooks and tabulator maintenance as part of preparations for the Nov. 4 consolidated election.
Kootenai County commissioners on Sept. 23 approved the county's November consolidated election ballot order, designated precinct polling places and several vendor payments needed to run the election.
Elections Manager Asa Gray presented multiple agenda items. He said the Nov. 4 ballot will be complex: across 74 precincts the county will use 196 ballot styles; some precincts will issue as many as nine different ballots. Gray reported 5,296 absentee ballots had been requested at the time of the meeting and said the county had about 110,099 registered voters in its files, about 107,635 of whom are currently eligible to vote in the Nov. 4 contest based on address.
The Board approved several vendor payments in advance of the election: a consolidated-election printing and absentee mailing contract with K and H Integrated Print Solutions not to exceed $38,000; the year-2 invoice for the Precinct Central electronic pollbook (10X Software Solutions) covering 234 e-pollbooks at $135 each (total $31,590); and the FY26 invoice for hardware maintenance and license support with Election Systems & Software LLC for $35,615.92. Gray said the ES&S invoice rose modestly from last year but the budget can absorb the increase.
Gray also presented the official ballot order under Idaho Code and Christy Olson presented resolution 2025-69 designating current polling locations; Olson said none of the precinct locations had changed since May. The Board approved the ballot order and the polling-place resolution.
Gray noted security measures required by Idaho law: ballots will include a watermark on all ballot types. He also highlighted that 11 of the county's 14 cities have contested races and that there are multiple school-district and fire-district contests and two local ballot questions.
Motions to approve vendor payments, the ballot order and the polling-place resolution passed with recorded aye votes by Commissioner Eberlein, Commissioner Duncan and Chair Metairie.
