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Marion County Election Board requests higher general-fund budget, plans new service center
Summary
Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell presented the Election Board’s 2026 budget request, citing higher personnel costs after a recent pay increase for poll workers, rising vendor and security costs, and plans to move to a new Election Service Center at 3737 East Washington.
Marion County Clerk Kate Sweeney Bell, who serves as secretary of the Marion County Election Board, told the City-County Admin and Finance Committee that the board’s 2026 general-fund budget request reflects rising personnel and operational costs and preparations for a new Election Service Center.
The board is responsible for administering primary, general and special elections in Marion County, Sweeney Bell said. She described duties that include poll-worker recruitment and training, in-person early voting, coordinating military and overseas voting, and campaign finance compliance. “Our board is bipartisan and we are responsible for governing and administering all primary general and special elections in the county,” she said.
The requested budget shows a year-over-year increase in the general fund. Sweeney Bell said some of that increase stems from…
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