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Rockville council accepts consultant report to update election code, directs staff to draft changes
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The Rockville City Council on Sept. 8 accepted a consultantfinal report recommending a comprehensive update to the city's election code and directed staff to begin drafting code changes.
The Rockville City Council on Sept. 8 accepted a consultantfinal report outlining options and recommendations to update the cityelection code and directed staff to begin drafting proposed code language.
The report, prepared for the council by consultant Jason Gantt of the Gantt Group, recommended reorganizing the election code into clearer sections (election administration, campaign finance and ballot measures), creating a master elections handbook, strengthening enforcement pathways for complaints, and considering options such as post-election audits, public financing tools and ranked-choice voting. The council voted to accept the report so staff can turn recommendations into draft code language for future public review and council…
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