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Resident alleges 'targeting' after being passed over for Rice Lake election judge
Summary
At the council's public-comment period, resident Sarah Alshire accused officials of unequal treatment, saying she was excluded from an election-judge list and describing what she called repeated targeting; council leadership said incidents were not identical and invited evidence for follow-up.
At the July meeting public-comment slot, resident Sarah Alshire told the council she believed she had been unfairly excluded from the list of election judges for Rice Lake while being offered spots elsewhere, and she framed the pattern as intentional "targeting." "Targeting is the answer," Alshire said, arguing that two on-site incidents had been treated inconsistently.
The chair responded that the two incidents Alshire compared were not identical, said staff had reviewed photographs from the most recent incident and invited Alshire to provide proof for a follow-up interview. The exchange underscored the council's limits in discussing personnel matters and left Alshire's allegation unresolved; the chair asked staff to continue follow-up where appropriate.
