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Lewis County elections commissioners seek uniform fees for off-cycle elections
Summary
Board of Elections commissioners proposed a uniform off-cycle election fee schedule and the General Service Committee forwarded a draft resolution to the full board after Q&A on likely costs for small village and school elections.
Lindsay Burce, Democratic commissioner for the Lewis County Board of Elections, presented a proposed off-cycle election fee policy to the General Service Committee designed to recover direct costs for elections held outside the regular cycle.
Burce said New York State Election Law §4-136 makes off-cycle elections a direct charge to the requesting entity and that increased federal and state requirements since…
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