On the Beat in Bluffton

Friday, April 5, 2013

County board to research new voting system

Members of the Wells County Election Board want more people to vote or pay less to enable them, and they unanimously decided Friday to investigate voting centers, a system that some hope could do both.

Voting centers, said election board member and Wells County Clerk Yvette Runkle, essentially allow people to vote outside of their precincts.

During the election board meeting Friday, Runkle presented the following costs from the 2012 elections and how they might have differed if the county had used voting centers. These figures do not include all the expenses, she said, but could indicate possible savings.

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Runkle also distributed the 2012 election receipts and expenditures to show how much candidates, parties and other groups spent to get out the vote.

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