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Public presenters urge stricter ROV hiring standards, rural recovery housing and vote-documentation changes
Summary
At a public-presentation slot Feb. 24, speakers urged the board to require stronger qualifications and community engagement for the Registrar of Voters hire, to expand recovery housing into rural Kern County, and several speakers read or advocated a proposal requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for federal voter registration.
Several community members used the meeting’s public-presentation period to press the board on staffing standards, rural behavioral-health services and proposals affecting voter-registration documentation.
Jess Sanders and Mercy Pena addressed the board about the Registrar of Voters (ROV) position and recommended minimum qualifications and stronger community engagement. Sanders highlighted duties of the incumbent position and argued the county should hire someone with prior ROV experience and appropriate education; Mercy Pena emphasized leadership, integrity, mapping and ballot-distribution…
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