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Resident urges removal of ballot drop boxes; election director defends drop boxes and explains canvass process
Summary
A Roaring Brook Township resident asked the Lackawanna County Board of Elections to remove drop boxes and asked for cost information; Director Elizabeth Hopkins defended drop boxes as an access tool, explained canvass and write-in counting procedures and listed current drop box locations.
During the public-comment portion of the Lackawanna County Board of Elections meeting, Roaring Brook Township resident Cara Francis urged the board to permanently remove ballot drop boxes and asked the board to place that motion on a future agenda and to provide cost information related to drop boxes and their surveillance.
Francis said taxpayers were angry about a 33% tax increase and questioned whether the county should spend money on drop boxes. "At a minimum if you're going to actually use the drop boxes again, put them in the one location that is downstairs," Francis said, adding she…
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