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Superintendent of Elections details reimbursements, staffing and provisional ballot workload
Summary
Superintendent Patricia Spango told commissioners the department requested $3.29 million, flagged about $850,000 in pending state reimbursements for early voting, reported two vacancies and said large provisional ballot volumes in presidential years drive unpredictable overtime.
Patricia Spango, the county superintendent of elections and commissioner of registration, presented a $3,292,289 budget request and told the board the state division of elections has about $850,000 in reimbursement claims pending for early‑voting expenditures. She said the county records grants as receivables and recognizes revenue upon state approval due to single‑audit requirements.
Spango said her office currently has two vacancies and is working to fill a clerk position while noting she cannot control certain deputy appointments. She warned that provisional ballots and high turnout — particularly during presidential years — materially increase overtime and staff workload. "We had 16,500 provisional ballots casted," she said when describing last year’s presidential cycle workload, explaining provisional processing creates downstream registration and investigation tasks.
Commissioners commended logistics changes (multiple transportation vendors) and asked about overtime budgeting and a potential repeat of heavy workload in the gubernatorial year; Spango said it is difficult to predict but that the office had successfully managed prior spikes.
No formal actions were taken; commissioners asked staff to continue monitoring reimbursements and vacancy fills.
