Lorain/Elyria, OH
Elections board to ask county for more money
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SHEFFIELD TWP. — The Lorain County Board of Elections will ask the county commissioners for about $172,000 in a letter the board’s director plans to send today.
Elections board Director Jose Candelario said the largest portion of the money will be about $92,000 to cover pollworker and overtime pay from the general elections earlier this month.
The figure would have been smaller, he said, but the elections board had to pay out sick and vacation time to three employees — including former Deputy Director Marilyn Jacobcik — who left earlier this year.
The letter also will ask for $50,000 to cover the costs of the recall election of Elyria Mayor Bill Grace in December. The election will cost between $36,000 and $52,000, Candelario said, but the exact figure won’t be known until after the election is completed.
The board also needs another $30,000 to supplement its annual budget of about $1.8 million, Candelario said.
That cost also will include the special election set for Feb. 2 and already includes levies for the Amherst library and Columbia Schools, Candelario said.
Although that special election isn’t until next year, the ballots will need to be printed by Dec. 29, he said.
Candelario said most of the money the board is asking for will ultimately be returned to the county general fund as the various municipalities pay their bills for the cost of the elections they had issues and candidates in. Elyria, for instance, is responsible for covering the cost of the recall election.
The elections board simply needs the money now to keep operating, Candelario said.
“We need to get that money soon,” he said.
In other action at a meeting Wednesday, the elections board rejected about 300 provisional and absentee ballots cast during the election earlier this month, Candelario said.
The largest group of ballots to be rejected were absentee ballots that weren’t sealed in the envelopes they were returned in. That’s something required by state law, he said.
Another 99 provisional ballots were rejected because the people who voted weren’t registered, he said.
Contact Brad Dicken at 329-7147 or bdicken@chroniclet.com.
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What a novel idea of the Chronicle to put this story in print next to the Mayor Grace Recall announcement of Dec. 22. I don’t know if we should trust the figures calculated by the Guy who Lost Pat Riley’s paper work and blamed it on another BOE worker, wait a minute, that is what Mayor Grace does, he makes mistakes and then blames them on someone else.
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Conpiracy
You where right on to this one. Do we give credit for finding this one to dirtdigger or Ken Behner? So confusing.
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Cospiracy
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Conspiracy
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Chris D Sito
It amazes me a person who has failed a business would at least know of the computer program were you can go to a web site or even in a PDF file to, let’s say search for certain word in the paragraph or in general the whole page or document.
Now to my point and please read this slowly as your ears get red and steam starts coming out of them. I didn’t not implied that there was a conspiracy in what I said, I am sure I was being sarcastic and making a point of how convent it was to try and show the public how wasteful it was going to be to Recall Grace. Unlike you Sito the citizens of this once Great City are not stupid as Grace has portrayed in the past saying the public needed to educate themselves as well as telling the media that the citizens didn’t understand the wording in the ballot.
In closing, I was brought up to be polite and not ignore a person or to call someone a name when they disagreed with me, so therefore unlike you I will be polite and tell you forthright that I will not be responding to your unstable rants about me or what I say on here or others that you try to demean.
Oh ya one more thing before I go, just a word of advise, if you have something personal in the Mayors office or another office in City Hall, you might want to get it out before the first of the year, the new Mayor Chris Eichenlaub I am sure wont be needing your nasty mouth services……….
Ken Behner aka dirtdigger
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LMAO!!!!! Three posts to spell c-o-n-s-p-i-r-a-c-y correctly. I’m sure glad that you’re a member of Team Grace. LMAO!!!!
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Folks can go vote early for the recall election of Mayor Grace at the Board of Election from now until the Dec. 22nd. So why didn’t the BOE start making their money by telling people they can start voting to day for the recall in this story?
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