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Election board closes 13 campaign-related complaints after staff review; flags campaign-finance website error
Summary
The Marion County Election Board voted unanimously on July 18 to close 13 complaints (2020Five-1 through 2020Five-13) after staff review found either corrective action or a technical error in the county's campaign-finance lookup tool.
The Marion County Election Board voted unanimously on July 18 to close 13 complaints (filed as 2020Five-1 through 2020Five-13) after staff reviewed each matter and found either corrective actions had been taken or the concerns were caused by a technical error in the county's public campaign-finance lookup tool.
Director of Elections Patrick Becker told the board the review covered complaints received through June 30 and that staff formalized a reporting process this year because of the volume of complaints and the irregular meeting schedule during election season. During the review staff discovered that when a committee filed multiple amended reports on the same day the upload process caused the website to show repeated scans of the same document rather than distinct filings. "When we uploaded…
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