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Elections officials warn of possible $8,000–$10,000 overrun after record turnout
Summary
Elections Manager Asa Gray told commissioners that unusually high turnout in the recent presidential election exhausted overtime funds and could push the operating budget $8,000–$10,000 over in fiscal year 2025.
Elections Manager Asa Gray told the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners on April 1 that the county’s recent presidential election produced the highest number of voters in the county’s history and has strained the department’s temporary staffing, overtime and supply budgets.
“We have actually already used all of our overtime line item, and we still have an election coming up,” Gray said. Gray explained that the…
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