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Clerk briefs committee on poll-pad rollout, record amendments and increased genealogy requests
Summary
Gardner's city clerk updated the committee on election operations — including poll-pad rollout and training — and described growing workloads from voter-registration corrections, hospital-submitted birth amendments, and genealogy requests tied to new Canadian citizenship rules.
The city clerk told the committee April 27 that new poll pads and expanded training helped smooth the September primary and November general elections and reduced paperwork and misdirected precinct visits.
"It just saves people from going on goose chases," the clerk said, describing how the tablets pre-populate voters and flag out-of-precinct lookups. The clerk said she ran two mandatory training sessions and follow-up one-on-one classes; 75 of 95 poll workers attended the mandatory sessions.
The clerk said in-person early voting will be offered for local elections this year (one week for the primary, two weeks…
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