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Supervisor of Elections: equipment replacement and vote-by-mail trends behind modest budget increase
Summary
Supervisor Wesley Wilcox told commissioners his office's FY2025-26 budget includes a one-time equipment replacement item for aging election electronics; he reported vote-by-mail and registration trends and said the one-time cost can be funded from nonrecurring county dollars without raising millage.
Wesley Wilcox, Marion County Supervisor of Elections, told commissioners the elections office proposed a FY2025-26 budget with about a 5% increase driven largely by one-time equipment replacements for end-of-life electronics.
Wilcox said the office had planned to delay replacement but market changes made immediate purchases advisable; the equipment items are under the county's $5,000 threshold per asset classification but the quantity and aggregate cost create a material one-time operating impact. Audit and budget staff later…
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