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County clerk seeks $33,000 for elections staffing as redistricting and new voting system raise costs
Summary
Bourbon County Clerk described expanded election workload tied to a new voting system and redistricting, asked for a dedicated elections staffer and $10,000 for clerk office raises, and warned ongoing system maintenance and printing costs have increased.
Susan (county clerk) told commissioners that election administration and statutory clerk duties have grown and that the clerk’s office needs additional staffing and modest increases to operating funds to manage new workload created by a 2022 voting‑system purchase and recent redistricting.
Susan said the county clerk is the official election authority under Kansas law and described multiple added costs. The county purchased a new election system in 2022; she said that decision increased annual maintenance costs from roughly $10,000 to about $20,000 and that vendor on‑site support…
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