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Lake County registrar asks supervisors to approve staffing, scanners and signature-verification funds to speed ballot processing
Summary
Registrar Maria Valadez sought board support to add technicians, reclassify a specialist, expand extra-help hours, replace an aging ballot scanner and buy a signature-verification system to reduce post‑election processing time and meet certification deadlines.
Maria Valadez, Lake County registrar of voters, asked the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to approve a phased plan of staffing, facility and technology investments aimed at speeding post‑election canvass and compliance work.
Valadez told the board that the office must meet state and federal certification timelines — 28 days for presidential contests and 30 days for other elections — while complying with cybersecurity, Americans with Disabilities Act and language‑accessibility rules. “This isn’t about inefficiency, it’s about capacity,” she said, describing steady growth in workloads since 2020.
The proposal lists four priorities: staffing, infrastructure, technology and ongoing support. Valadez requested reclassifying one specialist to an analyst, adding an elections technician and an elections manager at a later phase, hiring a part‑time specialist that would work full time during election cycles, and adding six additional extra‑help…
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