County may make voting machine techs part time
SHAUN KITTLE
MALONE - Franklin County's legislators are considering making two full-time voting machine technician positions part time.
The techs are responsible for the delivery of the voting machines, the poll site set-ups, testing the machines and collecting the machines after an election.
The change was agreed upon in October by the county Board of Legislators and Franklin County election commissioners Kelly Cox and Veronica King, but the 2014 budget maintained funding for the full-time positions.
When the commissioners approached the board about funding to renew the warranty on 24 of the county's 32 ballot-marking devices, the topic of cutting costs raised the question of whether the full-time positions are necessary. To pay for the three-year warranties, $7,500 was transferred from the county's contingency budget.
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