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Board discusses six draft election resolutions covering absentee ballots, travel board and poll security
Summary
Members reviewed draft resolutions on absentee-ballot expedited review and counters, travel-board travel radius (including Louisville-area hospitals), electronic poll books, security of election equipment, and staff assignments across precincts; wording and implementation details will be clarified with county/state staff before any final votes.
Perry County Election Board members spent the bulk of the meeting reviewing a packet of draft resolutions related to upcoming elections, including absentee-ballot procedures, the scope of the travel board, security of voting equipment and staffing at large polling places.
Speaker 2 summarized the six items the board intended to consider together and said she would move to approve them, but board members repeatedly said they needed to refine language and check legal and operational details first. "Absentee ballot vote counters, 1 Republican, 1 Democrat, will be required to maintain returned absentee ballots and travel board ballots by precinct," Speaker 2 read from a draft, reflecting sample language the group discussed.
A core area of debate was how early returned absentee ballots are handled and who may perform signature verification. Board members described the operational flow: applications are processed in the clerk’s office; returned ballots are checked in the clerk’s office and then brought to the election board where, under sample language, absentee counters would separate ballots by precinct. Speaker 3 recounted guidance from a county contact and noted that requiring separate counters and key-holders could raise staffing and cost concerns.
The travel-board draft would allow the travel board to operate outside Perry County "up to a 50-mile radius" and explicitly to include Louisville-area hospitals and contiguous Indiana counties for absentee voting purposes. Board members agreed that wording should explicitly permit medical-treatment trips while clarifying that travel to private homes would not be intended.
Members also reviewed a draft resolution giving the county election board responsibility for physical security of voting equipment and access-control procedures; the board confirmed they already maintain locks and limited access in practice, but said a written policy would be useful.
The board decided to consult with the staff member referenced in discussion ("Angie") and to review Knox County sample resolutions to refine the proposed language. No final, recorded vote on the packet of resolutions appears in the transcript; the board scheduled a follow-up working session to update and sign resolutions and to complete an equipment inventory ahead of statutory deadlines.
