Frostburg City election staff approve operating procedures, to publish filed candidate list on city site

Frostburg City election staff and board members on a March meeting at 4:30 p.m. approved updated standard operating procedures for the upcoming election, confirmed how mail and questionable ballots will be handled, accepted a new printing vendor for ballot mailings, and agreed to post a filed-candidates list on the city’s election webpage with a clarifying disclaimer.

The meeting opened with discussion of a redesigned tally sheet intended to print on one page. Patrick, who presented the proposed sheet, said he reduced columns and centered numbers so the form will fit and be easier to fold and staple to ballot sacks. Board members recommended keeping the ballot order consistent with the ballot itself and adding a field or column to record "no vote" tallies so vote totals can be reconciled against total ballots.

Patrick also told the group that voter-oath envelopes will carry…