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Kent County clerk cites early-voting costs, expands online records and property-fraud alerts
Summary
County Clerk and Register of Deeds Lisa Posthumous Lyons told commissioners the office launched new online services and fraud-notify alerts, saw record activity in some vital-record categories, and must front early-voting costs that have increased near-term expenditures pending state reimbursement.
County Clerk and Register of Deeds Lisa Posthumous Lyons delivered the office's annual report to the Kent County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 6, outlining 2024 activity across vital records, elections, register of deeds filings and circuit-court recordkeeping.
The clerk said vital-record transactions now average about 275 customer interactions a day and that the office issued nearly 98,000 certified copies of existing records in 2024, representing roughly 36,000 distinct requests. She reported births rebounding since 2020, deaths higher than 2023 but below peak 2021 figures, and marriage-license filings returning to pre-2020 levels.
Lyons summarized elections work in a year that included multiple local contests and the presidential-primary cycle. She said Kent County implemented county-level early voting in 2024 and that voting-method…
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